Rapunzel Syndrome
Entry:
In the fairytale Rapunzel the wife has an abnormal craving for green shoots called rapunzels. She makes her husband climb a wall into a sorceress' garden to retrieve them.
DNA and the HTA
Your name:
Jack Ashby
Entry:
Even if it were possible to collect and amplify any DNA on the car (ethically or technically), it would not be possible to attribute it to the boy unless you had a verified sample of his DNA to mat
Pica in cattle
Your name:
William Beinart
Entry:
Pica is also the name of a disease found amongst livestock, especially cattle.
Eating chalk (geophagy)
Your name:
Hannah Still
Entry:
I have a strong personal recollection of the desire to consume chalk. This desire affected me in primary school, roughly from the age of 7 to 11.
Archaeology Seminar with Bill Sillar
Entry:
Dr Bill Sillar, Lecturer in Archaeology at UCL conducts a seminar from modern to ancient, using both the toy car from Object Retrieval, ancient Egyptian artifacts and a series of cups.
Licking
Your name:
Lord Licky
Entry:
During the course of my undergraduate degree in General Archaeology, myself and a few of my friends from my class had a three year-long competition to see what the weirdest archaeological object an
What's Your Poison: Cocktails with toxicologists Andrea Sella and Mark Miodownik
Entry:
On Thursday 15th October at 6 p.m.
Human Tissue Act
Entry:
In selecting the object for Object Retrieval from the UCL Pathology Collection, some of the limiting criteria were the very restrictive parameters of the 2006 Human Tissue Act.
Magpies - self recognition
Entry:
Magpie – Pica Pica
Specimen or artefact?
Your name:
Jack Ashby
Entry:
In some museum disciplines, we use the term “specimen” for an object that represents a type. In others, the word “artefact” or just “object” is more commonly used for the stuff in museums.
