{"id":1130,"date":"2026-02-09T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:24:03","slug":"my-ted-talk-is-available-to-watch-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"My TED talk is available to watch now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/mark_miodownik_the_brilliance_of_bridges_and_roads_that_repair_themselves\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55-1024x741.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55-1024x741.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55-300x217.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55-768x556.png 768w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55-415x300.png 415w, http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-17.59.55.png 1490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? In this TED talk I describe a new class of materials \u2014 animate matter \u2014 with the potential to sense damage, self-heal and even biodegrade when the job is done. Humanity&#8217;s next great leap isn&#8217;t making more stuff\u2014<strong> it&#8217;s making stuff that doesn&#8217;t fall apart.<\/strong> You can watch the talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/mark_miodownik_the_brilliance_of_bridges_and_roads_that_repair_themselves\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to read more on the science and get involved, I co-wrote a roadmap for animate matter <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-648X\/adebd3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? In this TED talk I describe a new class of materials \u2014 animate matter \u2014 with the potential to sense damage, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/?p=1130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markmiodownik.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}