If you tug on your shoelaces enough, eventually, one of the eyelets is going to snap. Before you throw away a pair of otherwise fine shoes though, try to repair it with a little Sugru. We already know ...

Unlike most everyone else in the world, Burkard Polster gave this question a lot of thought, often at night. "Instead of counting sheep, I might count lacings," said Polster, a mathematician at Monash ...

The shoe on the left has the lace emerging from the final set of eyelets. The shoe on the right has the lace going into the eyelets. Shoe manufacturers seem to opting for the second style these days. ...