Parallel my eye!

[Nigel H-J]

May the Force be with you Mike!!

Nigel.

[Kevin Farnell]

Trust me, I'm a Scientist

Kevin

I never knew...
Tell me more about things you've worked with..

Synthetic organic chemistry is my field. I spent ten years with (what was then) the Cancer Research Campaign firstly, at Aston and then Nottingham University. I worked with the team that developed the anti-cancer drug Temozolomide, which is effective against brain tumours.
More recently, I have been involved in the development of reagents for use in DNA sequencing.

I thought that he was a music expert.

No Mike, I only know about the music I like.

perhaps he even knows his way around the kitchen too and can make a bacon sandwich...
I love bacon sandwiches

Actually...

Cooking is one of my hobbies. In some ways, it's very similar to chemistry. Weighing, measuring heating and cooling. I wouldn't eat anything I'd made in the lab though.

Mmmmmm bacon sandwiches.

Kevin

[airboatr]

Yes, temperature is very important with bacon, often I see people cooking at too high a temperature. Or sometimes to low, as was the case with a girlfriend of mine who was going out of her mind because dinner wasn't going to be ready in time..
In desperation she said how high should I turn the oven up to! .
...
Looking at the wall clock, (and knowing it was an electric oven)
I said.... .. clean.

... Anyway.. Cooking well requires and understanding of chemistry.. I'm actually a pretty good cook, my mother thought so.