New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural ...

But we know the sheet ... “knot theory.” Does the way we tie a tie say something about ourselves? Thomas does think there is one trend that persists: “Tyrants tend to have the biggest tie ...

A 'family tree' of string figures The researchers applied mathematical knot theory to develop a computational method to create a DNA-like symbolic representation of each string figure. This ...