Prose and Passion

I have no idea where that time went, but it appears that it’s 20 years ago today that I launched my first website, from which the current...

Mohr is an interesting German family name, as it is also an ancient word for dark-skinned people (related to Maure, as in Mauretania), much...

Hancox: a house and a family by Charlotte Moore Charlotte Moore was widely known in autism circles back in the 00s, when she wrote a re...

my features in Current Biology become freely accessible one year after publication. So, by now, all features published in 2015 or earlier ar...

My review of the book Cancer Stem Cells: Philosophy and Therapies appears in issue 10 (December) of Chemistry & Industry, on page 39,...

The end of year period is always a good one to reflect on our place in the Universe and where we all came from, ie to write another feature...

this term's addition to my nascent flute repertoire is Mozart's stray Andante, K315. The modest speed means that I can actually play...

oooops, I seem to have neglected the round-ups of my publications in German, so here goes from July through to December 2016: Neurochemie:...

towns and cities seem to be growing "naturally" wherever humans decide to settle and start to trade. Intriguingly, some key parame...

the ongoing deforestation of our planet is a major crisis, but it's not only about the loss of forest area. The biodiversity is importan...

it is the end of the world as we know it, and it may lead to the end of the world full stop. Children born this year have a theoretical life...

Edison-style incandescent lamps have disappeared from the shops. The energy-saving compact lamps that replaced them are also likely to go, a...