Prose and Passion

Slow progress in the Plague Year Bach project , as I am still stuck half-way into the Courante from the fourth suite . But the movement has ...

Here's a memoir fragment I wrote in English in 2015 and kept in a drawer. At the tail end of bringing up my own children, I had built up...

The latest special issue of Current Biology is about economy and biology, and my contribution looks at the energy efficiency of the hunter g...

World Naked Bike Rides are definitely back to normal this year, as the photos from last weekend's rides at London and Brighton demonstra...

Every picture tells a story No. 40 Season finale - as the list of entries gets a bit unwieldy, I am going to close this door and open anot...

The Pantanal, a major wetlands region in the south of Brazil is gradually diminished by the sum of many planning decisions, conservation exp...

Oxford has a few lovely new low-traffic neighbourhoods, essentially closing down rat runs between main roads with modal filters ( see my pho...

As monkeypox and the smallpox vaccine are becoming a bit of an issue these days, I am grateful that I am just about old enough to have recei...

Every picture tells a story No. 39 In this series I am aiming to use real life photos rather than studio portraits, but in some branches o...

High mountain lakes, streams and glaciers are often seen as the ultimate natural environments untouched by human devastation, but climate ch...

Every picture tells a story No. 38 Let's move on from Peter Eberle's three daughters to his three sisters. They were Anna B...

Every picture tells a story No. 37 Some time last week I came across a photo on twitter claiming to show the earliest born human to hav...