Prose and Passion

review of: Experimental heart By Jennifer L. Rohn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2009 Jennifer Rohn is famous for promoting the idea th...

The trend this summer seems to be to publish a book about the house you live in. Bill Bryson tried it, but I’ve read mostly bad reviews abou...

... haven't found any good video, but here's a nice photo from ShakiraMedia.com : With her playing in broad daylight and the rather ...

Also in this week's issue of Current Biology (apart from those 3 pieces by me ) is an interesting dispatch on the Neanderthal genome, ra...

I'm very pleased to hear that the cannabis based pharmaceutical Sativex is being launched on the UK market now, after 11 years in the p...

Today's issue of Current Biology has a special news focus on biodiversity, which includes an exceptional three contributions from me: T...

I'm studying insect-plant interactions, or stalking bumblebees, and gradually getting better at photographing them. Found out that there...

Update 3.9.2010 The album "Sale el sol" is now due to be released in October, here's the announcement from the official blog:...

Back in the days when I worked at the New Chemistry Laboratory here, the building next door was the Dyson Perrins Laboratory (or DP), which ...

It's taken me a while to sort out the tedious bits (I had forgotten the copyright page and had to re-publish), but now my book reviews c...

Last week I had a very interesting chat with a local artist, Dominique Lussier, who showed me some of the sculptures he's produced from ...

I've written quite a few pieces about colony losses in honey bees ( Apis mellifera ), but have to admit I didn't really know who...