Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> What’s the world made of? Here’s a concrete answer: a lot of it is built from a dense, knee-scraping substance that is the most common man-made material. But while concrete may be here to stay, plenty of new materials will come our way in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p> <p>Discover the better, faster, stronger (okay, not faster) materials of the future, and Thomas Edison’s ill-conceived plan to turn concrete into furniture.</p> <p>Plus, printing objects in 3D… the development of artificial skin… and unearthing the scientific contributions of African-American women chemists.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.darrenlipomi.com/">Darren Lipomi</a></strong> – Chemical Engineering post-doc, Stanford University’s <a href="http://baogroup.stanford.edu/index.php%20">“Skin Lab”</a> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://faculty.rpi.edu/node/1080">Linda Schadler</a></strong> – Professor of materials science and engineering, and associate dean for academic affairs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.iftf.org/people/iftf">Nicolas Weidinger</a></strong> – Research assistant at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California</li> <li> <strong>Jeannette Elizabeth Brown</strong> – Retired research chemist; author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/019974288X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=019974288X">African American Women Chemists</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=019974288X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong>Robert Courland</strong> – Author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616144815/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1616144815">Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World’s Most Common Man-made Material</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1616144815" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-torbellino-material/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First released January 30, 2012</p>
