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What an inspiration you have been to all of us Pam. Your warmth is infectious, your kindness knows no bounds, and your creativity has given us all so many gifts and so many wonderful memories. I remember my times at 128 as full of light, and delight, and love, and you have been at thé heart of it all. THANKYOU
Tamsin xxx

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Hope you have a wonderful bday🎂 granny Pam

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Hope you have a wonderful bday🎂 granny Pam

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Fergus😁

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Happy birthday grandma happy 80th birthday!
Hope you have an amazing day.
Lots of love>Iris <3 xxx

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Beautiful stones to remember fantastic 80th weekend. Much love Clea, John, Iris and Alex xxx

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Dear Pam,
Here's a sunny field of bright pink tulips from Washington state for you to enjoy on your very special birthday!  I hope your birthday is filled with sunshine, joy, and love from all your friends and loved ones.  Maybe you'll even get a surprise or two!  You are a very special lady, and I thank you for being a wonderful mum-in-law to my brother. 💗
Love, Kerri

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Adventurer
Crafty creator
Botanical nurturer
Wise woman
Crossword puzzler
Soul mate

with all my enduring love, Robin

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Happy Birthday Pam! Just one picture from a lifetime of happy memories. Wishing you all the best on this special day and we can't wait to see you in the Summer! Lots of love Ross, Kristine, Duncan and Conor xxx

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Dear Pam happy 80 th birthday I have had so much fun making all the pottery together for the past times have a great day with loads of presents and joy love from Izzy

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Happy 80th birthday to an amazing woman!

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Happy 80th birthday to an amazing woman!

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You have blessed so many of us by raising a wonderful daughter, Karen, who is now the wife of my son, Jim.
Wishing you many more days of joy and creativity in the years ahead!
Love, Pat

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We wish you a very very
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
and send you much love,
Sarah and Jim xxxxx

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Thinking of you with gratitude for many happy memories, Pam! Much love

Eilie

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Happy Birthday to my dear sister and lifelong friend, thank you for your kindness and generosity, your help and advice, your never failing hospitality - you are the lynchpin of the family. Have a wonderful day, love Liz

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Hi Pam
Happy Birthday for 13 Feb🎼🍸🎂!! What a full range of activities and interests you have (had)- we feel daunted when we just hear about them, let alone try and emulate them!
Long may these continue and we hope to say Hello again before too many more months have passed.
Love and best wishes
Rob & Harriet
Oxford

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Joyeux Anniversaire, Pam!
What a wonderful milestone,🤩🥳 we are sending you all our love from sunny London. I hope to see you soon, love, Jerome

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From Lalie🥳

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happy birthday Pam!!! love clea x

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Thank you for wonderful roots Clea, John & Iris and Alex
xxx

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happy birthday Pam have a great 80th birthday have an amazing day!!
=) love from the amazing Lexi!

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Hi Pam, have a happy 80th
80 years of being a super aunt and great aunt to us nephews and nieces!!
In the UAE they say in Arabic "Kol sana wenti tayeba" or "Each year and you are good"
Best wishes
Laughlan, Katarina, Izzy & Lexi

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Always thinking of others, full of creativity. A deep passion for linking learning in order to gain and share new insights. Thank you for being a pattern of human goodness to learn from and follow.

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Always thinking of others, full of creativity. A deep passion for linking learning in order to gain and share new insights. Thank you for being a pattern of human goodness to learn from and follow.

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So, I'm not actually familiar with Padlet, but it looks GOOD.  So let me try to post a link that I think will interest you:

https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/crochet-coral-reef/

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Picture a giant aquarium full of coral. Jellyfish float in one corner and kelp dangles down over spreading fans. There are sea sponges and wavy things that look like brains. Some of the coral formations are 8 feet tall, and the whole thing is a symphony of color and light.
You can listen and subscribe to Fiber Nation on your platform of choice. If you love the podcast, please rate us and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts to help other fiber nerds find the show!
But the most marvelous thing? This coral reef is made of yarn. In this episode, we dive into a place where art, ecology, science, and math come together into something extraordinary. Welcome to the Crochet Coral Reef.

The Crochet Coral Reef is the brainchild of Margaret Wertheim and her sister Christine. Both are from Queensland, Australia, which is also the home of the Great Barrier Reef. This coral structure is so large you can see it from space, but it is rapidly shrinking from the effects of climate change and pollution. Margaret is a science writer, and Christine is an artist and critic; both are keen crocheters. They wanted to do some sort of project to draw attention to what was happening to the reef.

"Some sort of project" is now a global exhibition, currently on display in 5 different cities. In 2019 the Crochet Coral Reef was shown at the Venice Biennale, perhaps the most prestigious art event in the world.

The Crochet Coral Reef is remarkable in several ways. It's a collective project made by volunteers, and every reef exhibit is different by design. It's also an exercise in hyperbolic geometry: a super-complicated and abstract concept I was nuts to even consider doing a podcast about.

In the geometry we learn in school, everything is flat and/or pointy. In hyperbolic geometry, everything is super bendy and shaped like a Pringles potato chip. Or a curly crochet thingy that looks an awful lot like coral.

There is a lot in this episode: art, science, math, ecology. There's also a lot of emotion, from delight to despair to hope. Take a look at some of the incredible forms here, and then dive into the episode.

Note: While we do a lot of research and fact checking, sometimes we commit a whopper by misspeaking and not catching it. Euclid, the Greek mathematician, lived 2,300 years ago, not 23,000. Also, when it comes to the NYC subway system, it's the A train, not the A line.

Happy listening,
Allison

More from Margaret Wertheim

The Crochet Coral Reef Project: https://www.margaretwertheim.com/crochet-coral-reef

Margaret's TED Talk

Margaret's Smithsonian presentation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-the-hyperbolic-crochet-coral-reef/id467098851

More on that Smithsonian exhibit: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/studio/segments/108652-crochet-geometry-and-the-coral-reef

Hyperbolic Crochet

Dr. Taimina's book on hyperbolic crochet: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568814526/studi360-20?asin=1568814526&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

Want to crochet a hyperbolic thing? Here's how: http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html

Articles and Incredible Photos

Science and Art

Real Coral

Climate Change and Global Warming

Be sure to check out the latest episode of Fiber Nation, The Crochet Coral Reef! You can listen on the player above, or wherever you prefer to get your podcasts. DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST APP SO YOU NEVER MISS AN EPISODE!

More on the Intersection of Math & Yarn

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Next up in Fiber Nation: The Crochet Coral Reef

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Picture a giant aquarium full of coral. Jellyfish float in one corner and kelp dangles down over spreading fans. There are sea sponges and wavy things that look like brains. Some of the coral formations are 8 feet tall, and the whole thing is a symphony of color and light.

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Pam what a wonderful age to reach and to be going strong on creative arts, floral abundance, scrumptious cooking, fun games with children and all the support you give to Quaker Meeting -
Love and hugs!

Tony

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80 years of making this world full of creative fun and love. Karen xxx

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... you found me!

Happy Birthday Mum-in-Law!

❤️  Jim  ❤️