Prose and Passion

It only occurred to me recently that the generations from my grandparents back to their grandparents lived in towns and cities most of the t...

I started archiving the science news items here in January 2019 after tumblr started to hide my blog (which is also called proseandpassion)...

Open Archive Day A year ago, I wrote a feature about bats and why we should care about them and understand them better. I'm glad I in...

The science books I get to review for C&I can be a bit of a mixed bunch, but here's one I would wholeheartedly recommend to anybody ...

Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise Dai Sijie First published in 2000 and hugely successful, this is a short novel about two teenag...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

For the last 20 years or so, the biography on my website included a statement along the lines that I write about "everything except din...

Looking into the 20th century transformations of Wuppertal (a conglomerate formed in 1929 the rivalling neighbour cities of Elberfeld and Ba...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Today's selection of science news . Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of new...

Open Archive Day Slightly belated echo to this year's Nobel prize in chemistry for Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier. When ...