Who (or what) is TED? More on that later, but for now...
For most my adult life I had an annoying little problem -- I could never keep my left shoe tied! No matter what kind of shoe/sneaker I wore, with whatever style/type of lace, it would untie itself every few minutes.
Lots of people gave me advice and tips... all to no avail.
About 5 years ago I Googled shoelace tieing and came up with a website that gave me a solution that has largely solved the problem.
As it turns out, it wasn't the type of shoe, lacing, or knot I was using, but rather how I started tying the knot itself! All I had to do was to reverse how (left/right-wise) I started my knot. The method I used -- and many of you probably use -- was actually creating a knot that would self-untie with the normal motion and pressure of walking.
The connection with TED (actually the TEDTalks video clips on the Web) is that they recently posted a brief clip from 2005 of a fun talk/presentation of how the badly-started knot fails... and how to tell at a glance if you're at risk of becoming untied.
Check it out at...
Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes | Video on TED.com
Learn out more about TED and TEDTalks at...
http://www.ted.com/pages/about
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