Gin and Topic

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Laura Wall’s Seaside Gins Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did the first life arise on earth? This week we’ll be trying to answer this question with Michael Marshall, a science writer and author of The Genesis Quest.  Apparently it’s going to involve plenty of gloopy liquids. And talking of liquids, we’ll be drinking Laura Wall’s Seaside Gins. Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Filliers Oude Graanjenever Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What actually is the heart, and what happens to the heart to cause it to fail? This week, we’re talking to Steven Simmonds, Postdoctoral Researcher at KU Leuven, who’s currently investigating how blood vessels are involved in diseases such as heart failure and dementia. And given his location, and to prove that Jenever doesn’t just come from Holland, we’re drinking some of Belgium’s Filliers Oude...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Ginepraio London Dry Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do you do if you’re tangled in a difficult situation?  Are you as adaptable as a starfish? This week, Dr Alice Barbaglio, a Research Advisor at the University of Milan, is going to tell us more about starfish, sea cucumbers and sea urchins. What makes them mutable and the potential for medical applications. All whilst drinking a sparkling bees knees. Cheers Support this show http://suppo...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Shortcross Rosie’s Garden Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Obesity, Is it a choice? And if not, why not?  This week we’re talking all about obesity with Dr Giles Yeo, MBE, Principal Research Associate in the Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at Cambridge University.  And we’ll be washing it all down with a couple of different Shortcross gins. Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Castle Rock Winter Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does all of your knowledge on Artificial intelligence come from science fiction like ours? If so, spoiler alert… it’s not quite true! This week Dr Kaushik Hatti, an AI scientist at University of Dundee, is going to explain the science behind AI. Or, more specifically, machine learning And hopefully it’ll help us decide if AI is good, or so very bad…’ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gi...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting New London Light Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you hear Dentist for the Dead, do you automatically sing stupid deaths from horrible histories… no?… must just be Áine then This week we’re joined by Dr Andrew Farrer, a science communicator and Head of Programmes and Delivery at Cambridge Science Centre Although, the work we're talking about was his PhD, which he completed at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, and involved plenty...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Slake Sussex Dry Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The internet! It’s just a thing that exists, that most of us use every day without thinking about… But this week, we’re learning all about where it came from, and where it could be going. Of course, we can’t do it alone. This week’s guest is David Lake, a part-time PhD student at the University of Surrey’s 5G and 6G Innovation Centre studying future networking. He's also an Engineering Technologis...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Inverroche Amber Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How much do you know about Child Health?  Personally, we don’t know a lot… and even less when we look at our question of the week, ‘how does child health differ around the world, and how has covid impacted on this?’ Luckily our guest, Debra J Jackson, a professor and Takeda Chair of global health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, knows a lot about it Cheers! Support this...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Ironbark Wattleseed Gin Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Where does river water go when it enters the ocean? If you’re thinking ‘the ocean, duh’ then, yes… but where exactly, and why is it important to know?!  Dr. Tom Crawford, from the University of Oxford, is going to give us the answers as he talks to us about ocean pollution. All whilst we drink some Ironbark Wattleseed Gin from Australia. Cheers! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gi...

Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room This week we're tasting Adnams Copper House Cheers Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Christmas Eve, and we’ve got a present for you We’re making you feel good about your seasonal indulgence, by talking to James Blackshaw - a Scientific Date Engineer and the EMBL-EBI in Cambridge - about which ingredients in a gin and tonic are of surprising scientific interest! Merry Ginmas  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

That’s right, we’re back again! We kick off series three with the perfect topic - Gin. A gin tasting, to be precise At long last, we’re learning how the fuck you taste gin, and what’s the difference between tasting it and drinking it?! And to make things extra special, it’s out first ever live recording! We’re joined by Emma Stokes, aka The Gin Monkey, who’s going to help us answer our questions....

We don’t know about you, but for us, this week has felt a little… off. So, to celebrate when things don’t go right, we’re giving you another little special Please enjoy the fuck ups from series two, as a reminder that even when things go wrong, they can be stupid funny  Cheers!  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

Surprise! We thought you might be missing us. So, as a special treat, we got you… some bits from the bin. Don’t say we don’t treat you. Series two had so many gins, and so many conversations, that we didn’t always get to include everything we wanted in each episode. So here are some of the bits we had to leave out. Cheers!  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted o...

It’s the final episode of series two, and we’re talking sound science! This week we’re joined by Dr Nikhil Mistry, a research fellow at The National Oceanography Centre, University of Southhampton.  As he helps us answer ‘if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?’ and 'does a duck's quack echo?' we’ll all enjoy a glass of Monkey 47 Sloe gin C...

What is public engagement, and why should we talk together more?  This week we’re joined by Dr Lucinda Spokes, Head of Public Engagement at the University of Cambridge. No idea what that is? Well, this is the episode for you.  She’ll be joining Sarah, and a slightly unwell Áine, in a glass of Bullards gin Cheers!  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic . Hosted on Acast. See ac...