Prose and Passion

Architect Santiago Calatrava was among those honoured by the University of Oxford this summer (along with local author Philip Pullman), bu...

If you don't know who Shingai Shoniwa is, you're missing something. Ok, so I'm guilty too, I actually saw her perform last week...

I reviewed "The solar century" by Jeremy Leggett (ed.) for Chemistry & Industry, a nicely illustrated plea for going solar, wi...

today I was going to tell you all about my new articles that came out this week, but none of the magazines involved has updated their websit...

Third in my series "things I like the look / design of" is very much not a design but a look, namely the look of a messy stage ove...

(last update: 18.4.2021) Another batch of family history, this time the descendants of the Imig family (Wilhelm Imig and Regina Catharina S...

nights are drawing in, so I can continue my series of photographs of Oxford by night: this one, in case it isn't obvious, is of a builde...

just to mention an English language movie for a change, I saw Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank at our local picturehouse cinema last week and ...

In last Thursday's Guardian there is a full page in the main section on new research on the epigenome (i.e. the way the information in ...

It's the season for picking quinces and doing something with them -- my infant quince tree has had 8 of them this year, so I made my not...

From 1998 to 2002, an innocent-looking post-doc from Germany committed what probably amounts to the biggest fraud in physics in recent decad...

I've been saying this in my nanoworld book already: if the living cell can read a single molecule of DNA, why can't we? Now, at last...