Prose and Passion

In the current issue of Nature, there is a three-page "opinion" section where the magazine asked 8 experts for a brief comment on ...

As conservation is all about the economy these days, people are wondering whether nature reserves and similar protected areas are actually h...

The essence of Paris in 3 minutes, as captured in the original video for Kiss Me, which is an hommage to Truffaut's classic Jules et Jim...

In his latest column, George Monbiot advocates a brilliantly simple and effective fix for the blatant inequality of opportunity in this coun...

On my last visit to London, I had a few hours spare and went to the Magnificent Maps exhibition at the British Library, just because it hap...

I spent most of the weekend on or by the river Cherwell, so I thought it was time for a blog entry to celebrate our short-walk holiday desti...

[ deutsche Version ] The US trade embargo against Cuba is turning 50 this year, and one should hope that after half a century of watching th...

When I finished my PhD and packed my bags to move to the UK, my professor gave me a book by watercolour artist David Gentleman as a parting ...

There is a pair of Earthwatch lectures happening today at London, both concerning tropical forests under threat: Forests: challenged by a ch...

I only found out in my late 20s that I really like the red wines of the Cotes du Rhone area (apologies for the bad spelling, does anybody kn...

I have recently started to work for the Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG) which is based at Oxford University's Old Road C...

Love Falls Esther Freud 2007 Some time in the 1990s, I compiled a list of people from my birth year plus/minus one who had achieved somethin...