Monthly Archives: February 2015

How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry

Posted on February 22, 2015 by stu

First, the recipe. Making sloe gin really is as easy as 1, 2, 3… – it only requires three ingredients (a fourth is optional) and the particular ratio my recipe uses is 1:2:3 (sugar:sloes:gin). The recipe is easily scaled depending … Continue reading →

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A quantitative analysis of how often Nature gives a fuck

Posted on February 8, 2015 by stu

After seeing this tweet the other evening: Huge respect to @CSPO_ASU's Dan Sarewitz for getting the one word sentence "Bollocks" into @nature http://t.co/AQC4hdENMC — Jack Stilgoe (@Jackstilgoe) February 6, 2015 I started to wonder just how sweary Nature has been … Continue reading →

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What if (I read more books this year)?

Posted on February 6, 2015 by stu

I read many books in 2014. Some of them I read so many times that I could probably recite them word-for-word. These books typically involved a gruffalo or the offspring of a gruffalo, however. And if there was no gruffalo … Continue reading →

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