Prose and Passion

If you look at plants from a technological point of view, there is a fascinating flaw in photosynthesis which is simply down to the fact t...

Another news story on bees and and neonicotinoids . Over the last few years it has become clear that sublethal effects of the pesticides are...

I first heard about carbon dioxide causing climate change in the late 1980s. I was dabbling in a bit of local politics with the Green party ...

After writing about the Simon family who were miners in Fischbach (Nahe) and then 170 km further south in Markirch (Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, ...

In my round-up of German pieces I mentioned my review of the film "Better living through chemistry" which was part of the annual ...

In the round-up of German pieces published in March / April we find structures folded and intertwined, deposits of gold and plastics, and re...

It may be an age thing, but I am getting increasingly skeptical of the general direction that technology is evolving towards. I was very hap...

Here comes a new chamber music score we've prepared for cello (grade 7+) and flute (hopeless, i.e. me). It's the third movement of t...

One of the wonders of marine biology is that the oceans still host megafauna with a size distribution similar to what it was in the pleistoc...

When I investigated the possible Huguenot origins of my Bondame ancestors in the Palatinate region, I looked at a map of Huguenot settlemen...

Our sense of smell has the reputation of being the poor relative to the superior abilities of other mammals such as canines or rodents. Howe...

During a recent stay at a cosy little hotel in Germany, we had a shower cabin with a square footprint (ABCD) and a sliding door ( ab ) that ...