Jolie, you are my new hero. I had my Moroccan oil explode on my leather handbag last week during a business trip. I used your cornstarch/washing up liquid combo and boom! Happiness. If you're ever in Stockholm, madam, the wine is on me. Carry on doing what you're doing, I'll be buying your book. Skol !

There's so much out there to get you started - I just loved every moment of my education (and was lucky enough to do it in the UK, in the days before tuition fees.) I never understood how people think science is dry...it's just endless beauty and wonder and being in the lab can be very creative. Just google science…

Three degrees, in biochemistry, genetics and a PhD in molecular and developmental genetics. Postdoc in the same, now working in clinical trial design and data analysis. Great fun... Science is mind blowing.

I suggest Ben goldacre and his bad science website. Great for general debunking. Also quack watch, and David colquhoun... Glad to see some interest in science ! It's fascinating shit.

Well, don't panic too much. Try to not smoke, drink not insane amounts, and to eat a vaguely balanced diet. Get a spot of excercise. I'm a scientist, and I try to eat mainly stuff that looks like it did when it was alive, by which I mean if you can recognize it as an intact vegetable, or chunk of meat, I'm ok. Don't…

Jez, as an active scientist with a foot in both primary research and commercialisation, I offer myself as your pet science writer. Some of your science coverage is..... Um.... Frustrating.

Yeah, you can induce cancer in rats with super high aspartamane doses, but we are talking silly amounts, so it's not clear how that really translates to humans. Sweeteners do seem to trigger some of the same fat deposition/blood sugar disposal pathways as sugar though, which is extremely interesting (scientist…

Ummm.. Yeah and the growth promoting hormones and antibiotics in meat...? America I do love you, but we do not want the bits of this TTIP and TAFT treaties which will basically lower our environmental and food standards to yours... Not good.