Prose and Passion

Gabriel Waksman's group at the Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology (shared between Birkbeck College and University College Lo...

Review of Our living earth Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Isabelle Delannoy Thames & Hudson 2008 Yann Arthus-Bertrand is famous for his aerial ph...

Wild swimming By Daniel Start Punk Publishing Ltd. 2008 On my map of Oxford, which dates from the year 2000, but probably hasn’t been update...

Immediately after the Fukushima disaster, the German government performed a spectacular U-turn on nuclear energy. Just six months after draw...

I hear that my all time favourite film director, Julio Medem, has started filming a short feature which will be 1/7th of a movie called ...

After 11 months on flickr , I have now accumulated enough clicks to do statistics with them, so I'll look into that for the first birthd...

I took this photo of a large NEXT ad ages ago in London (see reflected balconies for scale), but didn't know who the model was: Followin...

review of: Eleven minutes late Matthew Engel Macmillan 2009 / Pan paperback 2010 This month it’s 18 years since I moved to the UK, so I’m co...

I recently posted a blog about third generation genome sequencing , so this is just to add that my latest feature on this topic is out in to...

The only German piece out this month is a news story on Harry Anderson's "Vernier chemistry" using the mathematical principle ...

New insights into the mechanisms by which the sickle cell trait protects carriers from malaria point to an enzyme that produces carbon monox...

I wrote a "long essay review" on the book European women in chemistry , which, by definition, is more of an essay than a review. I...