New+To+Us+Ideas

**Origami - Airbags - Paper Folding - Heart Stents**[[image:praying_mantis_1.jpg width="173" height="144" align="right"]]
> "Now a professional origami master, Lang practices his craft as both artist and engineer, one day folding the smallest of insects and the next the largest of space-bound telescope lenses.
 * Robert Lang folds way-new origami - TED2008

**Crochet - Sea Slugs - Hyperbolic Geometry - Relativity[[image:hyperbolic_crochet_coral.jpg align="right"]]**
> "The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is a project that resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and community art practice. The project responds to the environmental crisis of global warming and the escalating problem of oceanic plastic trash."
 * ====Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral - TED2009====

**Data collection - Linear Functions**
> "By analyzing raw data on violent incidents in the Iraq war and others, Sean Gourley and his team claim to have found a surprisingly strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of attacks."
 * Sean Gourley on the mathematics of war - Ted2009