TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - 161 LP - 161 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304964 VL - 98 IS - 5 AU - Ian Wacogne Y1 - 2013/10/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/98/5/161.abstract N2 - Recently I've learnt how to tie my shoelaces. Or, to be clearer, relearnt. I need to explain, of course. In an idle moment—of which, naturally, I have many—I found myself watching the three-minute TED video, http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html. It answered a conundrum for me; I couldn't previously understand how people could avoid needing to use double bows in tying their shoes. This video demonstrated something that is probably familiar to anyone who has done any stitching: that there are two types of bows you can do when tying your shoelaces: a strong one and a weak one. Interestingly, you can tell which one you do in two ways: if you do the weak one without a double knot, the lace falls apart in minutes, but also it lies along the axis of your foot. The strong bow falls across the foot. … ER -