Prose and Passion

In our occasional attempts at playing chamber music , we have very much appreciated the collection of Original String Quartet Movements of...

After accidentally discovering the place from which the very rare family name Zeuzheim (Zeutzheim, Zeutzem, Zeitzem) is probably derived , I...

I just discovered on youtube that Shakira is on world tour again, currently in the US and Latin America. It's been a while since I las...

In family history research, every new answer tends to create two new questions, so in dealing with this hydra effect, it is always satisfyin...

I managed to lose track of my book reviews published in C&I, so here's three of them in a row. Chronologically backwards, because t...

The Sahara isn't exactly the place where you would want to store your DNA for a few millennia and expect it to still be readable, so it ...

The UK's World Naked Bike Ride season kicks off in three weeks time with the Cardiff Ride (aka DiffWNBR), so I'll compile some relev...

I recently looked into the family history of the infamous robber Schinderhannes after a report that his skeleton was identified. Since then...

Düsseldorf's street libraries never fail to provide me with amazing books I never knew of, so this week I discovered, among other thing...

Everybody loves butterflies, and they are easy to spot and identify, so we have mountains of citizen science data on their distribution and ...

From the apocryphal story of frogs being boiled alive in gradually warming water to the construction of frog saunas against chytrid disease,...

Some thoughts on Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music Anna Beer One World 2017 In recent years I have been l...