Ep. 079 Replication Crisis; Learning to Love Luxury; Crochet Scrubbie; Renaissance of the Eureka Inn

Teaching Your Brain to Knit

Brainy Thing: 12:50 Behind the Redwood Curtain: 22:40 What We’re Learning from our Knitting: Margaret learns to love Luxury with Lhasa yarn: 50% yak, 50% cashmere. She used the Lhasa Snuggle Mitts pattern by Laura Lamers. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/snuggle-mitts Catherine found a crochet pattern for her annual scrubbies exchange : the zinnia dishcloth pattern from Lily/Sugar’n Cream. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zinnia-dishcloth https://www.ravelry.com/groups/annual-dishcloth-swap. Brainy Thing: If you can’t reproduce the results of a scientific experiment, can you rely on it? Margaret talks about the Replication Crisis in Science. www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778 https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/when-study-can%E2%80%99t-be-replicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis Behind the Redwood Curtain: Catherine explores a landmark and historic hotel, the Eureka In —where else— Eureka. https://www.eurekainn.com/ Links: Facebook: Also, join our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/Teachingyourbraintoknitpodcast/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel Ravelry Group http://www.ravelry.com/groups/teaching-your-brain-to-knit website https://teachingyourbraintoknit.com/ for show notes, photos of our knitting and crochet projects, Behind the Redwood Curtain places and things and anything else we decide to post. Instagram: Margaret Kelso for Margaret and MagicWombat1 for Catherine In Episode 79 of Teaching Your Brain to Knit we uncover the Replication Crisis in scientific research; Margaret learns to love luxury making Mitts with Yak and Cashmere yarn; Catherine switches to crochet for her scrubbies swap; and we chronicle the rise and fall and rise again of the historic Eureka Inn.