Prose and Passion

My blog enjoys a reasonably good ranking in Google’s PageRank system, which decides which sources appear at the top of a list of search resu...

I enjoyed visiting the Henry Moore exhibition at the Tate Britain yesterday, just in the nick of time as it closes at the end of next week....

-- updated 13.1.2011 -- Some of the simplest geometric shapes are really difficult to recreate in organic molecules. Carbon loves the flat h...

I added a few photos from around Oxford to my flickr photostream . Also helped the youngest photographer in our household to set up her own ...

My review of the book Mirror-image asymmetry: An introduction to the origin and consequences of chirality by James P Riehl appears in today...

I took a few photos at the weekly antiques market yesterday, coming soon to my flickr photostream. Here's some old mirrors:

book review The feminine art Weam Namou Hermiz Publishing 2004 The charming characters of this novel are all, like the author, Chaldean migr...

Did I mention there are lots of bumblebees around here? I'm especially fond of those with the red backside, which are a bit rarer than t...

Considering that Oxford is the birth place of Alice in Wonderland , it is perhaps not that surprising to see crazy things all over the place...

More than 40 years ago, Wolfgang Wiltschko discovered that migrating birds use the Earth’s magnetic field for orientation. Further research ...

I’ve often said that I am lacking the “gene for addiction,” as I can, for instance smoke or drink without risking excessive use. New researc...

After nearly a full year on twitter (and 2180 tweets unleashed on up to 450 followers), I may have lost some of that gushing enthusiasm expr...