Gin and Topic

For our final episode of this series, we’re heading overseas and back in time to find out what stone tools can tell us about past humans?

We’ll be talking with Emily Hallinan, an archaeologist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, at the University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal. 

Not only about her expertise in old rocks, but also in gin, as Emily also spent quite a bit of time working in the Cambridge Distillery.

And we'll be pairing the conversation with some of her local Sharish gin.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Lind and Lime

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Our question this week is: How does invisible light from across the electromagnetic spectrum help us understand the history of our Universe? 

Yes, we know, that does sound like an unusually intelligent question for us.

And what we really want to know is: Why do astronomers need so many different telescopes?

So this week we’re talking with Jo Ramasawmy an astrophysicist and AtLAST scientist at UK Astronomy Technology Centre over a glass or two of Lind and Lime.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting an Apple and Blackberry gin from the Lancashire Gin Family

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Can you remember that point during adolescence when you came of age?

You know, the kind of experience that you read about in books, when you struggle thorough something and come out the other end having grown up.

No? Nor can we. 

So this week we’re talking all about Coming of Age with Nic Hilton, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, asking what is maturation and why are YA books obsessed with it?

And we’re maturing along with the apples and blackberries that went into this week’s gin from the Lancashire Gin Family

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Laura Wall’s Seaside Gins

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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.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Filliers Oude Graanjenever

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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 Graanjenever

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Ginepraio London Dry

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