TECHknitting: Knitting helps science

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Knitting helps science

Ladies? Next time someone looks down on your knitting? Just send them here.

12 Comments:

Cheryl S. said...: That made my brain hurt.; June 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM
giftable said...: lol i love that! by the way i don't know if you care but i tagged you in a meme the other day. keep up the good blogging!; June 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM
ingrid said...: Thank you, already sent out the link
to an engineer who does not value knitting,
will see what happens - can't hurt, eh?; June 7, 2008 at 12:14 PM
HPNY Knits said...: very cool!; June 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Marjorie said...: Thanks for the link. I'd read about some of that before, but I didn't know all that was in the article.; June 10, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Chris said...: There are gentlemen here as well; June 12, 2008 at 6:23 PM
--TECHknitter said...: Chris--apologies. I thought maybe men were such a knitting novelty that they don't get "looked down" on the same way I know knitting women sometimes do...; June 12, 2008 at 10:18 PM
Chris said...: Guess I shouldn't have been so serious, just the sociologist in me. Thanks for a great site!; June 13, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Captain said...: I heard a piece on NPR last year about hyperbolic crocheting, and then I saw the coral reef exhibit a few months ago. I'm going to share this article with a math teacher I know. Thanks so much for the link!; June 15, 2008 at 1:38 AM
Leigh said...: Sweet! What really bugs me are those commercials that associate knitting or crochet with dumb little old ladies. Those even make my husband's blood boil!; June 18, 2008 at 6:29 AM
karen said...: A woman at the Knit'n'Cafe yesterday was engrossed in hyperbolic crochet in magenta-coloured fibre - it was great to see this 'for real'. Very organic; I understand this translates into the process as well, which is exciting. Thanks for this post and the link. Has anyone (yet) knit an impossible triangle. A sketch is here on my wall of one.....but so far I have not met the challenge.; January 3, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Tangerine Tangent said...: I believe the item that Captain is referring to is this:

The Institute for Figuring

and specifically:

Crochet Coral Reef,

they are soo cool. There's even a
TED talk about it! very cool.

(ps- forgive me if my links dont work out, i'm not sure if i did it right); March 30, 2011 at 4:27 PM