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A version of this article appears in print on july 27, 2014, page 23 of the. Launched the italian version of my book stuff matters at the genova science festval oct 2015. A mission to reacquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives guardian everything is made of something. Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our manmade world, and liquid rules. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, stuff matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way. Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our manmade world by mark miodownik. He offers a compendium of the most astounding histories and marvelous scientific breakthroughs in the material world. Wall street journal miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind things such as paper, glass, chocolate, and concrete with. Winner of the 2014 royal society winton prize for science books. In stuff matters, miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and. He is director of the ucl institute of making, which is home to a materials library containing some of the most wondrous matter on earth.
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