Ian’s Shoelace Site claims to be the number one shoelace hobbyist site in the world, and says over 11,000 people visit every day. Whether you’re looking for the best knot for your running shoes or 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 ...

You may have been doing it wrong all these years. And now a new study by UC Berkeley researchers will show you the right way — to tie your shoes so they don’t come untied. If that sounds silly or like ...

No matter how tight you tug, it feels like some shoelaces are doomed to come untied. Fret no longer, as new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has figured out the physics behind why ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 ...