And will it matter when everything comes crashing down? Few things have emerged unscathed from this era of relentless ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Ian's Shoelace Site" is a site to say as a shoelace large dictionary packed with all kinds of information on shoelaces, such as the type of shoelaces suitable for the application and how to tie the ...
Ian's Shoelace Site, home of several inventive methods for shoe-tying, brings us the "Ian Knot," touted as the world's fastest shoelace knot. We've been tipped off on this several times before, so I ...
/:16 The time-saving technique of crossing two loops known as Ian's Knot gets the video treatment it deserves through a Sprint promotion. Whether you "Save four days of your life" depends on how ...
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 ...