Empty dreams of space colonies
(Ignore the title used in the newspaper…). The Guardian, 26 May 2019. Available here.
Using artificial intelligence to accelerate materials development
MRS Bulletin 44, 335-344 (2019). Available here.
Seas and seeing
Catalogue essay for the exhibition When Red Disappears by artist Elspeth Diederix (Fw:Books, 2019). See here. (The book is gorgeous!)
Color and culture
Essay for the book The Genealogy of Color by artist Emilia Azcarate (Turner Editions, 2019).
Utopian City
An essay for the exhibition The City is the City by the Dream Adoption Society, Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, Warsaw, 2019. Available here.
HOW TO GROW A HUMAN: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made
How To Grow A Human: Adventures in Who We Are and How We Are Made by Philip Ball
On a swelteringly hot day during the summer of 2017, Philip Ball had a piece of his arm removed and turned into a rudimentary miniature brain. This book is his attempt to make sense of that strange experience and to understand the implications of our new-found power to transform cells. If any type of cell in your body can become any other, is it possible to grow not just a mini-brain but an entire human being in a lab, from a scrap of skin? Ball recounts the macabre history of human tissue culture, and scrutinizes the narratives that frame our understanding of our cells and our genesis. At the cellular level, the unlikely process from which a clump of cells becomes a human offers much to marvel at.
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Measure for measure
Editorial on the redefinition of the kilogram, Nature Materials 18, 299, April 2019. Available here.
Extreme chemistry: experiments at the edge of the periodic table
Nature 565, 522, 30 January 2019. Available here.