MARGARET WERTHEIM and her sister Christine Wertheim are creators and ongoing global curators of the Crochet Coral Reef Project. Margaret is a science writer and author of books on the cultural history of physics. Christine is an experimental poet who is on the faculty of the department of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. In 2003, the sisters founded the Institute For Figuring, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. The I.F.F. is the host organization of the Crochet Coral Reef Project. Margaret?s TED talk about the project has been seen by almost a million people.