Prose and Passion

In the round-up of German pieces April to August 2022 we have microbes in cold geysers and on plants, as well as molecules from space, from ...

I noticed recently that the ancient DNA researchers are finding out lots of fascinating things about historic plague pandemics and other dis...

or Peter and the Wolff My Krefeld Clan is very well documented, but the prehistory of the families before they arrived at the booming si...

Some thoughts on The looking-glass house by Vanessa Tait Corvus paperback 2016 Alice Day in Oxford is normally celebrated with an eve...

From June through to August 2022, Germany offered a "flat rate" ticket for local and regional public transport for 9 Euros per cal...

Earlier this week it was reported that the International Seabed Authority (ISA) closed its meeting without reaching agreement on regulations...

After reading the interesting review of the book: Motherlands: in search of our inherited cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo , where the lost ci...

I've reviewed two very different books for C&I in recent months, and as it happens the two reviews appear side by side in the July/A...

some thoughts on Morenga Uwe Timm published 1983, new edition: dtv, 2020 In 1904, my adventurous great-grandfather Julius (born in M...

Anosmia - the loss of smell - was a neglected condition until Covid-19 came along. Then the loss of smell as a diagnostic criterion, and als...

Human activities are driving lots of species towards extinction. Many experts now recognise this as the beginning of the sixth mass extincti...

Plague Year(s) Bach Project, 20th month Time to try a new movement, although I've only managed to memorise half of the Courante fro...