Prose and Passion

The planetary boundaries concept is useful to illustrate just how unsustainable our use of global resources is, and how we are shifting our ...

During this pandemic it has been fascinating to learn how much information about disease spread can be obtained from wastewater analytics, e...

Every picture tells a story No. 26 Ernst Leopold the steel worker had at least seven brothers and sisters, and his three sons had around ...

From 2011 to the notorious ban of "female-presenting nipples" in December 2018 I had been a very happy user of tumblr, and learn...

Every picture tells a story No. 25 Auguste, daughter the East Prussian patchwork family , worked as a housemaid from the age of 14, until ...

Every picture tells a story No. 24 On one or two occasions I rented a convertible to visit my aunt after she had moved to a very remote...

I cover atomic force microscopy every once in a while, which results from my residual connections in chemistry and interest in the nanoworld...

Microbiota are important for so-called higher organisms that depend on their less sophisticated residents, like we do, for instance, on the ...

Every picture tells a story Nr. 23 Heinrich the station master at the Kreisbahn Minden came from a farm in nearby Neesen, now part of Por...

I'm not really happy with the UK's "live and let die" with Covid policy pretending everything can go back to normal, so I...

Every picture tells a story No. 22 Hedwig the milk maid worked on various farms until she got to the one owned by Hedwig Scholz and Paul...

It was great fun and slightly scary to learn about uranium cubes left behind by Nazi Germany's research programme into nuclear fission. ...