All in the Family? – Brenna Hassett
Dr Brenna Hassett ponders discovering new species with the help of new technology.
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Category: Dirty Science
The Trowelblazers – IWD 2019 – Rebecca Wragg Sykes
8th March is International Women’s Day. It’s become a familiar annual celebration centred on bigging up the women we know For Team TrowelBlazers, IWD is in many senses what we do EVERY day. Guest post by Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes.
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Why Archaeologists Don’t Want You to Floss – Brenna Hassett
We judge dead people on how they brushed their teeth. And archaeologists don’t want you to floss, (…but you probably should, anyway). The latest from Breena Hassett.
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The Top Ten Years That Were Worse Than 2018 – Brenna Hassett
Dr Brenna Hassett looks back in time and on the bright side to find the top ten years in history worse than 2018.
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Archaeologists Don’t Dig Dinosaurs – Dr Brenna Hassett
Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett calling out Jurassic era reasons for the “lack of women” in science.
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Who Are You? – Dr Brenna Hassett
As a professional digger-up of dead people, I’ve got a lot of explaining to do. A lot of people wonder, quite rightly, whether what I do – bioarchaeology – is entirely savoury. Dr Brenna Hassett investigates DNA tests.
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