The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, new Johns Hopkins ...

Yet you can show people real pictures of knots and ask them for any judgment about how the knot will behave and they have no clue." The work, newly published in the journal Open Mind , reveals a ...

Whether you're an experienced adventurer or new to the game, there are a few knots that you should know how to tie. Here are three of the most useful knots, hitches, and bends. Red cordage tied ...

String figures shed light on cultural connections and the roots of mathematical reasoning. ScienceDaily . Retrieved January 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241217131333.htm ...

The researchers applied mathematical knot theory to develop a computational method to create a DNA-like symbolic representation of each string figure. This enables the cross-cultural comparison of ...

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, who have been married since October 2013, attended the 2025 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, ...

Despite how frequently we deal with knots—in our shoelaces, in our corded earphones, in our holiday gift-wrapping—they might be giving us more trouble than we realized. Two researchers from ...

But it seems that knots are something that eludes most of us. Once a good sturdy knot is placed among similar but worse ones, our brains can’t immediately recognize the one we should go for.

Crafting string figures — a tradition found across the globe — might reveal a shared cultural heritage that spans thousands ...

Whether it's tying your shoelaces or doing up your tie, many of us use knots on a daily basis. Despite this, research has shown that humans are 'terrible' at judging knots. Scientists from ...

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