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

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/

 

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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.