Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast
Mar 31, 2026 · 56 min · 24 segments
Textiles are all around us, they are literally woven into nearly every part of our daily lives. From the everyday materials in the clothes we wear to the specialty materials in parachutes, spacesuits…
Taylor SparksHostAndrew FalkowskiHostKate WinningGuestNo entities detected.
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Sign up to unlockI would like to describe a field in which little has been done, but in which an enormous amount can be done.
This field is not quite the same as the others in that it will tell us little of fundamental physics, but it will tell us much about the strange phenomena that occur just below our perception.
In contrast to the natural philosophers of the past, the scientists of this field delve into the recesses of nature and show how she works in her hiding places.
Their quest is to understand and create the imperceptible.
After all, there is plenty of room at the bottom.
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“A painful lesson from the loom”
“A surprising test of durability”
“From looms to orbiting hardware”
“Textiles pioneered programmable logic”
“Untangling the basics of weaving”
“Mastering loops, tension, and drape”