Starting 2022-09-23, Scope of Work’s Reading Group is reading Mark Miodownik’s Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. Mark is a renowned materials scientist and New York Times bestselling author who interrogates the science behind everyday objects. From the publisher:
In Stuff Matters, Miodownik explores the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor to the foam in his sneakers. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, his stories of analysis will make you see stuff in a whole new way.