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A better shoelace knot
The Berluti knot is the product of someone thinking about a knot's function, rather than just making it easy for kids to ...
SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State. "My ...
How many years have you been tying your own shoes? Chances are, you’ve been doing it wrong all this time. That’s the result of extensive research conducted by a team at UC Berkeley led by Oliver ...
The scientific evidence is now clear: we all tie our shoelaces wrong. America’s epidemic of untied shoes can be blamed in part on faulty shoe-tying technique, according to rigorous experiments in a ...
Even if you don’t wear lace-up shoes regularly, you are probably still quite familiar with the experience of a knot in your shoe string coming undone, irrespective of how well you thought you had tied ...
Dr. Justin Sloane, a Pennsylvania OB-GYN, has gone viral for sharing the unusual way surgeons tie their laces, explaining that they use the same technique on blood vessels. WebMD TikTok This ...
Oliver O’Reilly was teaching his daughter to tie her shoes when he realized something: he had no idea why shoelaces suddenly come undone. When he went looking for an answer, it was apparent that no ...
We've shown you a few ways to tie your shoes more efficiently, but if you're looking for a super-speedy way to get your shoes on and out the door, the Ian Knot is a super-fast method that will make it ...
People have passed around versions of this method, called the “Ian Knot,” before, but for his new show Going Deep, which goes in-depth into everyday tasks, David Rees went straight to Ian himself. In ...
The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop. Over at Runner's ...
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