121 episodios
Gin and Topic Topic Gin
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- Educación
Our ever-curious step-mother and step-daughter, Sarah and Áine, begin each episode with a glass of gin in hand, before launching into the topic of the week. Once the gin has been thoroughly sampled, and reviewed, they discuss what they already know about the weekly topic. It could be anything, from science to art, from political to cultural. Most importantly, they often don’t know a lot. Luckily, there is a weekly expert who shares their knowledge… and the gin. The guest may be plagued with ‘Okay, but why?’s, and ‘So, how?’s, but they get to drink through it! And, if this expert can tell our hosts that everything they thought they knew is wrong, even better. There’s no confrontation, just a genuine wish to learn and understand, and at the end of the show, the hosts spend a little time mulling over what they’ve learnt, and wondering how they can slip it into conversations to look smart.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/gin-and-topic.
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Tasting A Little More From Series 6
Welcome to the Gin & Topic tasting room
This week we’re having a few extra shots from the series
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Everleaf & CRISPR
CRISPR! No, it’s nothing to do with crisps… What is it, you ask? Well, that’s what this week is all about.
We’re joined by Soren Hough, a writer and a scientist who completed a PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge. He has been working with, and writing about, CRISPR since 2014 and is currently a Visiting Scientist in the DNA repair laboratory of Prof Sir Steve Jackson. So really there’s nobody better to answer: CRISPR: What is it, why is it both amazing and scary, and what does this new technological power mean for society?
Sit back, relax, grab a gin and get ready to have your mind boggled.
Cheers!
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Tasting Everleaf
Welcome to the Gin & Topic tasting room
This week we’re tasting Everleaf Marine with our guest Soren Hough
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Clean G & Kids Environment and Health
What environment do you like to listen to us in? We hope you haven’t got kids around, there’s an explicit warning for a reason! Although maybe this week, you should at least keep them in mind.
We’re joined by Pia Hardelid, a Professor of Epidemiology at the University College London. Pia is leading a project called the Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort which is setting up a new national data resource for research into how the local environment affects children’s health as they grow up in England. She’s going to help us answer the question: how can we understand the relationship between children’s health and the environments they grow up in? Join us to find out more.
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Tasting Clean G
Welcome to the Gin & Topic tasting room
This week we’re tasting Clean G with our guest Pia Hardelid
Cheers!
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Never Never & Science Integrity
We’ve talked sharing science this series but how do you know that the science you’re reading isn’t as fake as a love island star’s teeth?
This week we’re joined by Dr Simone Cuff, a biomedical researcher who currently works with a major scientific publisher checking scientific papers for research integrity issues and signs of fraud. She’s going to tell us all about the incentives that mean people who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of truth… twist it.
We promise, this is all true.
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