Prose and Passion

This year's Fairtrade Fortnight in the UK starts today, details here . In previous years I rounded up all the faitrade products I could...

Surely, palaeontologists of the distant future will label our slice of geological time the plastocene, as a layer of plastic waste will be o...

DNA nanotech is a field I've followed from its very beginnings, i. e. Nadrian Seeman's DNA cube in the early 90s. Back then, it was ...

Looking through the flute tag on tumblr earlier this week I came across an ancient video of Jethro Tull performing "Bouree" (not s...

Written and directed by French director Philippe Diaz but filmed in Los Angeles and in English, this film juxtaposes a hippie-style, free l...

Over the xmas holidays I wrote a feature on various cross-connections between art and biology, which is now out in Current Biology: Where...

The January issue of Chemistry & Industry contains my feature on iron fertilisation and climate change, which is now accessible online a...

Last month, I attended a discussion meeting on food security and climate change at the Royal Society, London. As in other areas, it appears...

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 (...