Prose and Passion

In a feature that was a bit off the beaten track for me, I've covered the orientation of desert ants, which can make use of a wide range...

Loving this week's SPIEGEL cover showing Pussy Riot member Nadyezhda Tolokonnikova sporting a ¡No pasarán! T-shirt. Der Spiegel, i...

My essay review of the book Materials Science of DNA Jung-Il Jin and James Grote, eds., CRC Press 2012, ISBN 978-1439827413 appears in ...

Review of (or, rather, a first attempt at figuring out): Balada triste de trompeta (The last circus), Spain 2010, Alex de la Iglesia bas...

I loved B.O.B.'s airplanes (with Hayley Williams) at the time, but that could have been a one-off. Now he's done it again, with Tay...

I have covered the research relating to the silica shells of diatoms - their morphogenesis and use in bio-nanotechnology - for many years, b...

film review: Where do we go now? (Et maintenant on va ou?) I am getting increasingly paranoid about films that I would like to see but ...

I've recently read "The goldilocks planet" for review (watch this space) and learned to appreciate the variability of Earth...

I’ve been quite busy over the last 12 months partly due to having two books to prepare in parallel, both to be published in German later thi...

My feature on biodiversity in Turkey came out last week while I was away: Turkey's biodiversity at the crossroads Current Biolog...

Ahead of the arrival of the Mars Science Laboratory aka Curiosity on Mars (scheduled for Aug 6th), I have prepared a feature summarising wha...

by sheer coincidence I recently stumbled upon a song from the Carmina Burana which seems to sum up this week’s scandalous events quite nicel...