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20080702 Wednesday July 02, 2008

Knitting with a message


It can be hard to explain how taking a trip in an airplane is linked to polar bears having less ice to hunt on, but this animation does it in a fun, clear way – using knitting, of course. The short video shows the world unraveling due to pollution, and it's a great way to explain what's going on to kids.

We have to admit, that although we did feel slightly queasy at the idea of the whole world unraveling – all that knitting coming undone! – the idea that the world was created by knitting does make a sort of sense. How many hours of work would it take to knit a planet, do you suppose? Would you get second continent syndrome? Is the duck-billed platypus the result of a misread pattern, or a determination to use up all the bits left over from making the other animals?

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