Prose and Passion

Pirate Luthier update After a month without new arrivals, I found two violins to rescue at the antiques fair on Gloucester...

A recent news release about researchers recycling an ancient word, namely scrumping, drew my attention to the issue of apes and other animal...

This month's issue of Nachrichten aus der Chemie is a special issue on science communication and for the occasion I was asked to observe...

Films not shown , special edition After seeing Oxana at the cinema, I also watched the documentary I am Femen on YouTube (in Germany, it ...

Some thoughts on Silk roads: A new history of the World Peter Frankopan Bloomsbury 2015 European history as I learned it at school doe...

I have some sympathy for the idea of repopulating the Arctic tundra with big beasts to restore its natural ecosystem functions, although I...

I don't write about real chemistry very often these days, but it's always great to hear about the creative (supra)molecular architec...

Some thoughts on La venue de l'avenir Cédric Klapisch France 2025 starring Suzanne Lindon, Cécile de France ... released in Germany...

Two years ago, I wrote a blog entry about the 23 street libraries set up within the city limits of Düsseldorf. I embarked on a quest to vis...

I've covered ocean acidification many years ago, when it was beginning to emerge as a threat to corals and other calcifying sea organism...

Some thoughts on Oxana France/Ukraine/Hungary 2025 Charlène Favier The Ukrainian protest group Femen denounced the tyranny of Putin an...

Pirate Luthier update My Freegle call looking for fiddle cases hasn't produced any actual cases, but it helped me rehome two fidd...