von Robert Gernhardt (Heine Gastprofessur 1986 in Düsseldorf – einer der wenigen wirklichen Virtuosen der deutschen Sprache) erschienen in “Gedichte 1954-1994″, Haffmanns Verlag, ISBN 3-251-00254-6. (Show me more…)

Two new exciting papers about Jewish ancestry in the AJHG and Nature probably missed some of the background. As another blogger noted

It is remarkable that Jews have maintained a tangible cultural identity through those 26 centuries of dispersion, and perhaps even more remarkable that genetic studies now show they have maintained a substantial genetic identity as well.

Here is the answer – sharing faith and music. (Show me more…)

Being currently in London, I am combining the visit to an allergy congress (and work about a new review on evolutionary origins of immunoglobulin E) with some practical photographic experience at the river Thames.

I am reading currently about Tyndall scattering (Show me more…)

and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
Yesterday’s farewell sermon of Joachim Funk in Gröbenzell reminded me to the chapter that I once learned by heart (in Greek) and let me today go for some pictures of Kapuzinergasse in Munich, where the walls of St. Anton hold this inscription in big letters (Schmerzhafte Kapelle und Kapuzinerkloste, St. Anton).