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Drunk in Time

30 October 2009
/ 6:00PM - 7:00PM. Fri
@ The Lass O'Gowrie
Free

On Friday evening, broaden your cultural horizons with a trip to the pub. Join historian James Sumner on a light-headed stagger through scientific understandings of alcohol since 1600, as Isaac Newton, Humphry Davy, and others ponder the great questions: Is wine alcoholic? Does rotting fish belong in beer? And, what's more harmful - microbes or thunder?

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Manchester Science Festival

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