2024-07-13
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm head of programming Connor Boyle.
On the podcast today, Mark Miyadovnik, the scientist whose fascination with the materials that build our world has inspired his new book, it's a gas.
Here's our host for this episode, Alex Wilkins, reporter for the New Scientist with.
More my guest on the podcast today is Mark Mierdovnik, a materials scientist and engineer.
He's professor of materials and society at University College London and is also director of the Institute of Making.
His new book is it's a the magnificent and elusive elements that expand our world, an exploration of that most ethereal of material states which can be as light as a substance to make us laughter and hang as heavy as one of the roots of the carbon fuel climate crisis.
It also envelops giant planets across the solar system and inspires the odd rolling Stones lyric.
Plenty to write a book about then, but Mark has form in taking a closer, more analytical eye to substances that initially feel like pretty familiar forms.
His previous books include Liquid the delightful and dangerous substances that flow through our lives and stuff, a New York Times bestseller.
He joins me now to talk about it all.