cat's cradle

Up in the bucket of the scissor lift, she maneuvered through her huge cat’s cradle, cinching lines and crocheting them with larger stitched panels to create dense splashes of color among the trees.

“The financial links between the Saudi royal family and the Trump family raise very serious issues, and when you factor in Jared Kushner’s financial interests, you are looking right at the cat’s cradle of financial entanglements,” Wyden told The Post last week.

In the novel Cat’s Cradle, for instance, a dictator on the brink of death urges his people to embrace science over religion because “science is magic that works.”

For example, the invention the dying dictator in Cat’s Cradle refers to as “magic” is a crystalline compound that turns water to ice at room temperature.

Koepsell believes Cat’s Cradle laid the groundwork for the precautionary principle—the idea that society should exercise restraint when introducing potentially harmful technologies.