Rocks. Science. Life.

One of the residual facts that has stuck in my head from my geology degree is that mica (a type of mineral) is used in make up highlighters to give that shimmery shine. I mentioned this fact in passing to someone I was tutoring the other day and we ended up getting into a convo about the chemistry behind make up, and its actually quite fascinating. For something that really is part of my everyday life, I didn't know much about the chemicals that went into it - and sadly I fea

Back in 2020, when I was preparing for my Oxford Interview, I spent a lot of time scouring the internet for example and practice interview questions that I could have a go at answering. With Earth Sciences being a bit of a niche subject there was not that many resources out there aside from the following: https://sites.google.com/site/oxbridgeinterviewquestions/earth-sciences https://www.u2tuition.com/resources/applying-for-earth-sciences I was also the only person at my scho

We woke up in Abbotsbury aching a bit from our previous two days of walking but ready to get going on our final leg for this particular trip which involved walking round to Weymouth to finish on the beach meeting up with where we had finished our walk last time. It was the middle of the UK heatwave so the sun was already blazing aggressively at 9am when we had finished our breakfast, lathered on some sunscreen and set off on the days walk. The plan was to follow the South We