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Recent Examples of cat's cradleBut that string can still be made into something perfect: As Ludwig lovingly points out to his grand-nephews, the knots in the cat's cradle always stay the same distance apart no matter how the configuration is manipulated.—Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
To test that, the final group completed cognitively demanding games such as mazes and shape puzzles called tangrams that contained no academic content.
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Supreet Kaur,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
One of the mazes retiring after the 2026 season will be open with the lights on during the event.
The design that emerges from this tangle of technological, institutional, urban, and aesthetic forces is a triumph of clarity.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
8 June 2026
Before 2014, bull kelp—a whip-like kelp with bulbous air bladders and trailing blades —stretched across Northern California’s coastline in dense tangles.
Drivers should brace for traffic snarls this summer when South Elgin’s State Street bridge over the Fox River is reduced to one lane for road resurfacing work.
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Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
Travel industry leaders and major airlines warn the proposal would devastate tourism, choke international cargo and create massive operational snarls.