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 ...

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.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

String figures, by W. W. R. Ball.--Methods and theories for the solution of problems of geometrical construction, by J. Petersen.--Non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Caŕslaw.--A ...

Learn how to efficiently concatenate strings and numbers as well as nonstring fields in Tableau with our comprehensive guide. Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool that is growing in ...

"An unabridged republication of the work first published ... in 1906 under the former title: String figures." ...