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Pirate luthier adventures continued: violin number 18) This is one that I am going to return to the people who have inherited it, as they...

History of astronomy typically begins with the ancient civilisations and the ways stargazing changed their view of the world. The book ...

Today's issue of Current Biology is a special theme issue on physics and biology, so there's lots of exciting stuff there from this...

Some thoughts on Dans la ville de Sylvia (In the city of Sylvia) José Luis Guerín, starring Pilar López de Ayala France, 2007 Whe...

My new book, exploring how all life on Earth is connected to everything else, is out today: Intertwined From Insects to Icebergs ...

ooops, I have a lot of catching up to do in my book-keeping of German pieces, so you'll find a vast range of weird and wonderful topics ...

The rise of cetaceans (whales and dolphins) to become the dominating megafauna of the oceans happened remarkably quickly, within only 50 mil...

Cowley Orchestra runs on a no-commitment policy which we take seriously, so everybody including our part-time conductors can be absent any ...

Here in Oxford we feel a special cultural connection to the dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) - seeing that an important specimen of the extinct s...

This summer, I was quite spooked by the total absence of wasps around here, and after I read that they have also been missing elsewhere in t...

Pirate luthier adventures continued: violin number 17) In June I gave away six violins via freegle bringing the resident population ...

Some thoughts on I couldn't love you more by Esther Freud Bloomsbury 2021 I've been following the work of Esther Freud since ...