Prose and Passion

O: The intimate history of the orgasm Jonathan Margolis Century, 2003 Der Mensch wird auf natürlichem Wege hergestellt, doch empfindet er ...

Back in 1891, when my great-great-great-great-uncle Christian Gottlieb Weiß wrote up what he knew about his ancestors and relatives , he not...

The official publication date for the German edition of Astrobiology - A brief introduction is today (though amazon.de hasn't updated ...

I used to think that our civilisation's lack of knowledge of the deep sea was just embarrassing - as often summarised in the statement (...

the articles published in German this month cover innovative toilets, non-ribosomal peptides, and the story behind this year's chemistry...

For my recent feature " Felids fighting for survival " I established contact with the conservation charity Panthera , which specia...

My long essay review of the book: Superfuel – Thorium, the green energy source for the future. by Richard Martin Palgrave Macmillan ISB...

Something very scary happened in western Iran around 5000 years ago. People started using a writing system for their bookkeeping, used and d...

Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook I raved about this book a few years ago after...

My review of the book Paradox: the nine greatest enigmas in science, by Jim Al-Khalili is out in Chemistry World online: FREE ACCESS I...

These days I am spending most of my online social networking time on tumblr , which is ironic, as it took me well over a year before I got ...

Last month, en route to a family visit, I stopped by at the Institut de Genomique Fonctionelle de Lyon (IGFL) and learned lots of exciting ...