Materials Around Us

Clearstory

This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Our lives are shaped by materials. And there’s no better place to see that reflected than in our homes. Glass windows revolutionized the comfort and safety of our houses. Stainless steel modernized our kitchens and even made our food taste more delicious. Host Kevin O’Connor explores the materials that surround us with Mark Miodownik, Professor of Materials and Society, and author of “Stuff Matters.” What are the most influential materials in our homes and will we really be able to change a room’s color with the push of a button? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	slash UK slash AI for people. You go back to the start of civilization and you have something
0:33.3	called the Stone Age. And if you don't start learning how to bang the rocks together and make fire and make
0:39.5	cutting implements, you stay an animal.
0:41.5	And I think that's material knowledge.
0:43.4	It's materials that build society.
0:51.6	Society, culture, and most obviously the places we live, they're shaped by materials.
0:59.0	Materials we discover, materials we invent, and even by some that we pretty much ignore.
1:06.0	We wouldn't be who we are without them.
1:17.6	Skaplapers, indoor plumbing, a dry, warm house that's free of roaming wild boars. Materials have made all of that possible.
1:21.6	So which ones have defined us?
1:24.6	And what's in our future?
1:26.6	From this old house, this is Clear Story,
1:33.9	your home in a new light. I'm Kevin O'Connor. At this old house, we're a little obsessed
1:43.9	with materials.
1:45.0	New innovations and technologies mean we can improve the way we build, and ultimately the way we live.
1:52.0	And that's been true of humanity for centuries.
2:00.0	The ages of civilization are named after them.
2:02.1	You know, there's the Stone Age, then there's the Copper Age, another big leap,
2:06.4	and you've got the Bronze Age, and then you have the Iron Age, and so on to the present
2:11.5	day, which arguably, where you can call the present society, the Plastic Age.
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