Prose and Passion

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has banned this ad: according to this report in the Guardian , and I'm having a huge ...

During the preparations for the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Asso...

Why is tumblr like ancient Egypt? How do you recognise if a twitter user is part of a specific tribe? Will edit wars on Wikipedia end in pea...

In the round-up of German pieces published in April we have serious reports on teeth and on artificial enzymes, and not so serious ones on b...

After my recent blog post on DNA double helices that twist the wrong way (inverted helices), a reader (who prefers to remain anonymous) sub...

The Deep Carbon Observatory is an international interdisciplinary project studying the hidden carbon fluxes deep within the earth, along wit...

Scientists are now able to design new enzymes to catalyse reactions for which a natural enzyme doesn't exist. I've rounded up some o...

Moving on from first movement of the Beethoven Duo no. 1 , we're now trying to play the third movement of the same piece, which is actua...

I've now figured out what to do with DNA double helices of the wrong chirality, which I frequently see in print and online. Earlier I st...

Ooops, now it's March and I haven't done the roundup of the German pieces published in February yet. Time, you're moving too fas...

My latest feature in Current Biology juxtaposes a highly acclaimed project to simulate the function of the heart and a somewhat controversia...

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