Am i drinking too much alcohol? A question I should probably ask myself more often. As a Brit, the answer is probably yes, but why? Why drink when I know it's bad for me and what is it doing to my body?

Come on a journey through time and space as we visit prehistoric times, 7000 BC China, ancient Mesopotamia, England in the 1680's, that dodgy club you went to with the sticky floors, my mates toilet on her 18th and an old boozer, as we ask...

What is the chemistry of Booze?

Where does alcohol come from?

What is the drunken monkey hypothesis?

How do breweries keep us drinking?

How long have we been making booze?

What is the metabolism of ethanol?

Why did the UK develop a culture of drinking?

What makes Alcohol a depressant?

Are there really down sides of drinking?

What did Judith Defour do?

What does booze do to our brains and bodies?

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Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking [ Ссылка ]
The Planets By Brian Cox [ Ссылка ]
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Bad Science: The Science of Things that are Bad for You.

In each episode we look at science that can kill you and explore the dark science experiments that brought us there. Through do it yourself science experiments in the backyard, frankly bizarre reconstructions and fantastic motion graphics, we make science fun.

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Not Fiction: Mad Science and F***ed Up History

We like to deep dive into the science of blowing stuff up and crazy history facts. Through homemade science experiments in the backyard, we get dangerous. It’s not for the faint of heart, this is definitely bad for you science. With crazy history stories brought to life with wacky reconstruction.

It’s Killer Science & Killer History, FULL STOP.

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Image of Batalla San Romano captured by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta [ Ссылка ]
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