cat's cradle

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Dr Wickham, who holds a joint position with the Schools of Chemistry and Physics in the Faculty of Science, said: "The results are a bit like using Meccano, the children's engineering toy, or building a chain-like cat's cradle. But instead of macroscale metal or string, we use nanoscale biology to build robots with huge potential."

From Science Daily

Up in the bucket of the scissor lift, she maneuvered through her huge cat’s cradle, cinching lines and crocheting them with larger stitched panels to create dense splashes of color among the trees.

From New York Times

In the novel Cat’s Cradle, for instance, a dictator on the brink of death urges his people to embrace science over religion because “science is magic that works.”

From Science Magazine

For example, the invention the dying dictator in Cat’s Cradle refers to as “magic” is a crystalline compound that turns water to ice at room temperature.

From Science Magazine

Koepsell believes Cat’s Cradle laid the groundwork for the precautionary principle—the idea that society should exercise restraint when introducing potentially harmful technologies.

From Science Magazine