Prose and Passion

Some thoughts on Inherit the truth / Die Wahrheit erben by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Giles de la Mare 1996 / Weidle Verlag 1997 I had b...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 40: Johanna Kauer, the oldest of the five daughters of the station master of Adamsweil...

Bird flu only gets media attention very briefly each time it either affects industrial poultry farming or poses a danger to establish itself...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 39: In season 1 we met Luise Schilling, mother of Heinrich Nagel, the station master of Mi...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 38: I'm loving this family portrait dating between 1913 and 1916: The lady ...

The roundup of German pieces Febuary to June 2023 reveals some returns to familiar themes: Malaria und Coviderkenntnisse Nac...

Today's issue of Current Biology includes a special section on the theme of plant interactions (see the cover below). My contribution i...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 37: Ernst Leopold the steel worker and Auguste from the East Prussian patchwork family...

I like to cover the multiple crises we're facing and creating ourselves in big picture sort of way, showing how things are connected aro...

Every picture tells a story , season 2, picture 36: We've seen Hedwig and her siblings as children and reunited as young adults , bu...

The UK's World Naked Bike Ride season kicks off this Saturday with the Portsmouth Ride, so I'll compile some relevant info here. I ...

I've been writing about archaea on and off since the 1990s - there were quite a few of them kicking around at Regensburg biology depart...