Prose and Passion

Update on the tumblr situation two weeks after the supposed purge: The change of policy has successfully driven away many of the creative pe...

As in 2017 , most of the excitement and progress this year was to be had on the musical front. The ships of global and UK politics may be si...

First thoughts on La hermandad de los celtas by Carlos Núñez Espasa 2018 To those of us obsessing over Galician folk music, Carlos Nú...

A lovely antiquarian book I bought recently at the antiques fair in Gloucester Green combines the fables of La Fontaine with illustrations b...

Open Archive Day My features in Current Biology emerge from behind the pay wall one year after publication, which means that all those pub...

Today's round-up of science stories. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert. I include quotes from the summary in cases wher...

Today's round-up of science stories. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert. I include quotes from the summary in cases wher...

Today's round-up of science stories. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert. I include quotes from the summary in cases wher...

As tumblr is going dark, I need a new system to simultaneously share and archive the science news items that I pick up in my daily filter-fe...

Very exciting findings have emerged recently from ancient DNA studies of dozens of ancient Americans, giving a much more detailed picture of...

As tumblr is probably going the way of MySpace after Monday's purge, I am thinking of ways of transfering some of my activities there to...

Tumblr is set to implement its nipple ban on Monday 17th, and the petition against it is about to pass the 500,000 signatures target today,...