Stuff Matters, by Mark Miodownik

By Daniel Wahl

Feb 20, 2015

∙ Paid

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Modern World, by Mark Miodownik. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. 272 pp. $16.45 (hardcover).

Reviewed by Daniel Wahl

In May 1985, a young Mark Miodownik sat on a train, with a fresh thirteen-centimeter stab wound in his back, and thought about what had just happened. Moments earlie…

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