![]() But Miodownik understands that all humans love a story, and the one he uses as the mixer in this bizarre cocktail is about a flight he took from London to San Francisco. Liquid brings together wildly different substances such as peanut butter, adhesives, contrails, soaps and saliva, while leaving out many others. In this book, he aims to convince us that liquids are “exciting and powerful … anarchic and slightly terrifying … delightful and dangerous”. As a writer, his tone combines exactly the right proportions of geeky wonder at the brilliance of, say, wave formation or a ballpoint pen, and patient didacticism to inspire fellow scientists and enthral the general reader. ![]() His last book, Stuff Matters, won the 2014 Royal Society prize in 2017 he was awarded the Michael Faraday prize for his “excellence in communicating science to UK audiences”, and convincingly argued in that year’s Faraday Lecture that a proper grasp of materials science might help us avoid a global human catastrophe. ![]() Mark Miodownik is the science communicator’s science communicator. ![]()
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