Prose and Passion

I used to get quite a few stories from Earthwatch Europe back in the noughties, when they sent expeditions to lots of places around the wor...

As an armchair explorer of life under extreme conditions, I always enjoy reading the accounts of people who dare to go to these dangerous pl...

Some thoughts on Dvorak in Love: A light-hearted dream Original title of the Czech edition: Scherzo capriccioso 1984 Josef Škvorecký I h...

Ten years ago, I looked into the story of the miners migrating from Fischbach (Nahe) to Markirch (Sainte Marie Aux Mines) and mentioned sev...

Today's issue of Current Biology contains a special theme section on fungi, with lots of fascinating fungal facts. My contribution is f...

Pirate Luthier update After the arrival of violin no. 25, which I found during my recent travel on a flea market in Neuss, Germany,...

In our occasional attempts at playing chamber music , we have very much appreciated the collection of Original String Quartet Movements of...

After accidentally discovering the place from which the very rare family name Zeuzheim (Zeutzheim, Zeutzem, Zeitzem) is probably derived , I...

I just discovered on youtube that Shakira is on world tour again, currently in the US and Latin America. It's been a while since I las...

In family history research, every new answer tends to create two new questions, so in dealing with this hydra effect, it is always satisfyin...

I managed to lose track of my book reviews published in C&I, so here's three of them in a row. Chronologically backwards, because t...

The Sahara isn't exactly the place where you would want to store your DNA for a few millennia and expect it to still be readable, so it ...