You probably learned to tie your shoes as a kid and haven’t given the method of tying a second thought since then. But if your shoes are always coming untied, maybe we should revisit that shoe-tying ...

We all know the situation — you try to get your child to tie their shoes on their own to no avail. Even though there are plenty of shoe shortcuts available that bypass the need to tie shoes, it's ...

Chris Herzfeld is a philosopher of sciences at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris, where she specializes in the history of ...