Just like any outdoor enthusiast, you need to be equipped with vital skills, and knottology is one of the most important.
In the study, participants were shown images of two different knots and asked to identify the stronger one. They couldn’t.
Study shows 4,000 years of knot-tying hasn’t made us better at understanding them. BALTIMORE — When you tied your shoes this morning, you probably didn’t give much thought to the physics involved.