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Cocktails - Shaken Not Stirred

With Dr Kathryn Harkup

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Overview

Cocktails – Shaken Not Stirred

Dr Kathryn Harkup’s new book, Licence to Kill, will look at the science behind the silly and not so silly ways to die in the world of 007. Can you kill someone by covering them in gold paint? How worried should Bond be about the laser between his legs? Can you be sucked out of a plane like Goldfinger? Lift the lid on the science behind the world’s favourite secret agent and sample his favourite cocktails along the way.

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About the Author

Dr Kathryn Harkup

Kathryn is a chemist and author. She completed a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realising that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed a bit more than hours slaving over a hot fume-hood. She writes and gives regular public talks on the disgusting and dangerous side of science.

Kathryn writes and gives regular public talks on the disgusting and dangerous side of science. Her first book was the international best-seller A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie. She has also written Making the Monster: The Science of Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinDeath by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken HeartsVampirology: The Science of Horror’s Most Famous Fiend and The Secret Lives of the Elements.

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