New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...

In 1979, the artist James Inoli Murphy tried out the idea of using string figures—those cat’s-cradle games of loops and knots—to teach math to recalcitrant students. “It is a pleasure, it is an active ...

Oklahoma storyteller David Titus tells his story in a most unusual way. He told stories to Ida Freeman Elementary students while he illustrated them with string figures Tuesday. Titus created the ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

MRS. RISHBETH has long been known as a zealous collector and student of the string games known popularly as ‘cat's cradle’. In this volume she justifies a study which, to the Philistine, may seem ...

THIS book is a second and enlarged edition, of which we have already noticed the first issue (NATURE, vol. 106, p. 640). The subject is comparatively new, though one variety, the cat's cradle, has a ...

This is a story of a design project that wanders: starting from a motivation to explore fiber-arts for feminist retaliation and culminating in the design and development of a novel soft sensor.