Prose and Passion

When I reported on the suspected Huguenot connection of my ancestor Jean Bonnedame (* 1666 Mörlheim, today part of the city of Landau) , I ...

The upcoming climate conference COP21 at Paris (which I hear will go ahead despite the recent attacks) will reveal whether or not our civil...

Researchers at the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CaSTL) are using a whole range of fascinating methods to achieve visualisa...

A recent report from the European Marine Board looked into the question of whether and how the economic opportunities present in the as yet ...

Asterix: Le papyrus de César The 36th Asterix album – the second from the new team, Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad – addresses a quest...

I don't often write about food, but when October approaches I somehow feel obliged to contribute to the various harvest festivities happ...

The painter Alexander Calvelli , whose work I have been following for a while , has a new exhibition coming up at a small museum in Leverkus...

Among the German publications in September/October we have sleeping beauties (research papers that find belated fame), green roads into the ...

History of Life on Earth - a special issue of Current Biology with lots of goodies is now online. For my contribution, I looked at Earth fr...

UPDATE 16.6.2024 - the new list for films from 2021 onwards is here: films not shown - part 3 Back in 2010 I started a blog entry list...

Tomorrow is the start of this year's Banned Books Week , and the 55th anniversary of the Lady Chatterley trial is coming up in October, ...

The origin of life remains one of the great mysteries that science still faces. One of the approaches to address it is to try building livin...