Prose and Passion

It is getting harder to retain any sense of optimism, but here I'll round up some very tiny personal pleasures and successes from the ye...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 17. When the three children from the bakery in Dörndorf (Silesia) grew up, Hedwig the m...

Back in the 1990s, when I did research on the molecular machines in the cell and got excited about artificial nanomachines inspired by these...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 16. It's also the season for board games, so here is Frieda the pianist as a budding ...

The last feature of the year is about invasive species, one of the key causes of biodiversity loss, which has been the focus of the COP15 su...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 15. I hear it's party season out there (although I'm more in hibernation mode myse...

Some thoughts on Gone: A girl, a violin, a life unstrung Min Kym Viking 2017 I still remember reading the news when Min Kym’s Stradiva...

Plague Year(s) Bach Project, update plus violin news Slow progress - have now re-memorised the minuet in D minor to complete movement...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 14. Writing the entries about the family of baker Adam Eberle in Lorsch in the first serie...

Soundscape ecology is beginning to get more attention these days, but what about soundscape evolution? It is intriguing to think that all th...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 13. After Julius the shopkeeper and later textile businessman had to leave Königsberg he...

A recent obituary in the Guardian came with a photo of the person playing the flute, so I read it although the name didn’t ring a bell. As i...