Anna Ploszajski
Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, engineer and communicator. Her projects have included attempts to break a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and power Glastonbury Festival using hydrogen. She is the author of Handmade.
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Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.