The Economist

Knitting a road with stones and string

SINCE THE Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been something of a sweaty and grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

String Theory: Reflections on Knitting as a Hobby for Hacker Types

[This is a guest post by Amanda Watson, who works as a Research and Instruction Librarian at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. In her spare time, she tries not to let her yarn habit get ...
The Economist

Knitting a road with stones and string

SINCE THE Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been a sweaty, grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones into place and, ...