The photos below are pictures of coral reefs. Well, not actual coral reefs, of course, but reefs replicated through crocheted yarn. Coral forms created by many hands. This was on display in the Hall of Ocean Science at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History this winter. I could have spent quite a while studying the colors and shapes and there were several displays throughout the room of this incongruous craft at a natural science museum.
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| Appear to be some soft corals here. |
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| Blue Jellyfish |
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| Coral colored corals. |
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| One of my favorites |
All of these structures have been completed with great accuracy in terms of relational size and shape...perhaps not in terms of color. This project reaches across five continents and there are many exhibits in other parts of the globe. What does this have to do with hyperbolic geometry? What does it have to do with how gender changes science? What on earth does it have to do with coral reef science? Well, go
here for a few minutes of blowing your mind and be sure to watch the TED talk linked on the page. I just love this stuff! (You should be able to get a closer look if you click on the photos.)
