What’s new in knitting, you might wonder after having wondered what’s new in sewing. Some physics is new, says this study: “Programming mechanics in knitted materials, stitch by stitch,” Krishma Singal, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Sarah E. Gonzalez, A. Patrick Cachine, Sam Quinn, and Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Nature Communications, vol. 15, 2024, article 2622. (Thanks to […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Biting biting remarks — …Bite-mark analysis hoo-ha, so far, mostly applies to identifying human biters. Mostly, but not entirely. Enter a new paper called “Forensic determination of shark species as predators and scavengers of sea turtles in […]
“Knitting is usually considered a female activity and females are usually not considered to be inclined to mathematics, or to science in general. Nevertheless mathematical skills are necessary for knitting, because they help to realize symmetries, inversions, scalings and proportions; good abstraction capabilities are indeed needed to figure the final result out and to map […]
Thanks to generous contributions, the Penguin Foundation, of Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, now no longer requires volunteers to knit sweaters for penguins. [that’s ‘jumpers’ in the UK, Australia, N.Z., Turks and Caicos, Bermuda, Jersey &etc.] “Please know that we do not urgently require little penguin jumpers for rehabilitation, we have a good supply of these […]
