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A book for beginners; Kathleen Haddon, String Games for Beginners, Cambridge, UK: Heffer 1934 (many later editions) 28 figures, 40 pages; Camilla Gryski, Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes, 1987, New York: William Morrow & Co Library A book for beginners. Many stars and more string games, New York: William Morrow & Co Library 1985, ISBN 0-688-05792-6
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, [ 1 ] exploring and satirizing issues of science , technology , the purpose of religion , and the arms race , often through the use of morbid humor .
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
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Leonard Susskind's The Cosmic Landscape calls Cat's Cradle and its use of ice-nine a "cautionary tale about madness and instability in a world full of nuclear weapons", as well as being based on the real scientific principle of metastability. Saying that, while in the real world, liquid water at room temperature is stable, it explains that in ...
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In principle, sprang may be regarded as a practical application of the fiber manipulation techniques used in the children's game known as cat's cradle. [1] Sprang is made by preparing a set of warp threads either on a rectangular frame or between a pair of beams. The craftsperson then generates a fabric by interlinking the warp threads.