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- Hendrick's Midsummer Solstice & Nanoscale Molecular MachineryNanoscale Molecular Machinery… or as Áine put it ‘ya what?!’
This week we’re talking to Dr Rivka Isaacson, Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences and Reader in Chemical Biology in the Department of Chemistry at Kings College London, who’s going to explain all and try to answer ‘How can we view the invisible?’.
And of course, we’ll be drinking! To help us learn we’ve got some large glasses of Hendrick's Midsummer gin.
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46 min - Jacqsons & Tinnitus
Tinnitus: More than just a noise?
This week we’re joined by Dr James Jackson, Reader in Psychology in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the School of Social and Health Sciences at Leeds Trinity University.
James will be chatting all things tinnitus with us over a glass of Jacqsons gin, chosen for the play on his name… and it involves the rhubarb triangle. We promise, all will be explained.
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42 min - Bombay Cucumber Gin Fizz & Menstrual Health
Why are periods so bloody important?!
This week we’re joined by Mandi Tembo, a PhD research fellow with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine… but she’s based in Zimbabwe!
Mandi will be chatting all things menstrual health with us over a cucumber and gin fizz, made using Bombay Sapphire. Get ready for some serious oversharing…
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1 hr 4 min - S2E4 Extra Shot - George Dunn DaySurprise, it’s an extra shot!
We loved chatting with Suw so much that it was an extra long recording, which meant some bits had to be cut out… This is one of our particular favourite cut clips about George Dunn.
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3 min - Prairie & Gender Equality
How do we improve gender equality in the work place?’
Well, this week we’re going to try to answer that with Suw Charman-Anderson, the founder of Ada Lovelace Day… and our first guest with her own Wikipedia page!
Suw will also join us in a glass of Prairie gin, as she speaks to us all the way from America.
Cheers!
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1 hr 2 min - Tarquins & Synaesthesia
This week we’re joined by Dr Clare Jonas, who’s going to be taking to us about synaesthesia!
Something which Áine never manages to spell right first time… but what is it? And why does it exist?
Join us as we try and answer those questions over a glass of Tarquins gin.
Cheers!
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53 min - Nàdar & Climate Justice
Sarah’s been waiting for this one…
This week we’re talking all things climate (specifically climate justice) with Dr. Natalie Jones!
Natalie is a Research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, and she’ll be joining us for a glass of climate positive Nàdar gin.
So join us as we ask, who decides how to fix the climate?
Cheers!
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39 min - Moonshot & AstroGinWelcome back to Gin & Topic!
We’re so pleased to be back for our second series, and we’re kicking it off in style. Our guest is Dr Belinda Nicholson, a postdoctoral research assistant in the department of physics at Oxford university.
Belinda is going to join us in drinking a glass of Moonshot gin, while talking all things space! Including where the best place to drink gin in the universe is...
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48 min - Introducing BenIntroducing, Ben!
Our wonderful, and ever suffering, editor deserves his own episode.
In this special episode, you can enjoy some snippets of us ‘chatting’ to Ben, and learn a little more about the brains behind Gin & Topic.
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7 min - Series 1 Bonus BitsMissing gin o’clock already? Here are the bits you didn’t get to hear!
Silly, embarrassing, or just plain nonsense, these are the snippets that didn’t make it into series one, but made us laugh anyway.
We’ll see you again soon…
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About Gin and Topic
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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.
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