Book club – Handmade by Anna Ploszajski

How do you make a chemical-resistant beaker out of a material as fragile as glass? And how do you tell the temperature of a piece of steel without a thermometer? These are questions Anna Ploszajski tackles in her book Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making . A materials scientist, engineer, science communicator and occasional stand-up comedian, Ploszajski explores the domain of makers and craftspeople. With knowledge accumulated over generations of trial and error, these experimenters understand popular materials like glass, steel and wood far better than any scientist. We talk to Ploszajski about finding fresh perspectives by stepping outside the scientific realm, and find out whether every materials scientist should take up blacksmithing.

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Book club – Handmade by Anna Ploszajski is an episode from Chemistry World Book Club by Chemistry World.

This episode is 19:08 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2021.

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