As part of our "Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning" co-curriculum series, our tour of the UK brings us to Edinburgh, Scotland where we visit the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. We speak to bartender Euan Willis about the Whisky Society and about single malt whiskys more generally. We learn tips for mixing cocktails with these sometimes bullying spirits and taste a few along the way.

For the conclusion of our UK tour, Kurt interviews actual real graduate students, Anna Drummond Young and Eleanor Mackay of Oxford University's Physical and Theoretical Chemistry program. They talk about what it is like to actually do science as a graduate student rather than what professors always pretend science is. Anna and Eleanor take a quiz to find out how well they know each other and we talk about what geologist fashion is (despite the fact that none of us is a geologist). Finally, we drink a lumpy cocktail through a straw. What a great ending to our tour across the pond!

As we continue our tour of the UK, we speak with Alice Thorneywork, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at Oxford University. Alice speaks about her research, what it is like to teach at Oxford University, and how her current career path in the sciences was largely set by a children's book. She answers a hard quiz that, perhaps, only Kurt really enjoyed and makes the case for more women in science to wear dresses (if they want to). Finally, we enjoy a refreshing drink on a scorching day to finish out our time together. Hopefully, you can grab your own refreshing drink and come along with us.