Prose and Passion

On September 2nd, I changed my “about” text to indicate that my tumblr blog would henceforth be focused on book-related things: “I blog a...

I've avoided the topic of shale gas for a while, seeing that the stupidity of digging up fossil fuels that we can't afford to burn s...

review of Lucky break by Esther Freud Lucky break charts episodes from the interlinked lives of a bunch of aspiring actors who meet at dr...

The monthly roundup of things published in German magazines yields algal biofuels, mind-altering drugs and mysterious mechanisms: Forschun...

My latest feature in Chemistry & Industry juxtaposes two different approaches to conducting chemistry in nanoporous materials. There...

Are plant diseases that cause catastrophic famines a thing of the past? Well, ahem, the pests and pathogens keep evolving, moving and spread...

The latest addition to my growing collection of arrangements for cello and flute is an adaptation of the slow movement from Dvořák's ce...

there are exciting things going on in the fields of robotics, biomimetics, and biohybrids, but for some reason researchers in these fields t...

review of Essentials of psychiatric diagnosis: Responding to the challenge of DSM-5 by Allen Frances The Guilford Press, New York, June 2...

I only just discovered that the annual statistical yearbook from the BFI ( British Film Institute ) has statistics on everything, including ...

My feature on Spherical Nucleic Acids (SNAs) - a kind of assembly in which short nucleic acid strands stick out radially from a nanoparticle...

Today is the 40th anniversary of the coup in Chile . Thirty years ago, I attended a major event on the eve of the 10th anniversary: whi...