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 earlier, a…
