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     So, your shoelaces weirdly untie themselves while you're running, or walking, and you end up tripping. We've mostly come to accept this as normal, even though it is a bit tiring to have to stop every few meters to retie a pair of especially slippery laces.  Why though, do shoelaces untie themselves so easily? Researchers  at University Of California Berkely - Graduate student Christine Gregg, Christopher Daily-Diamond and their professor Oliver O'Reily teamed together to find out.. They eventually published their findings on April 12 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. The trio decided they would try to figure it out by recording Christine Gregg, a co-author of the study, and also a runner on a treadmill while she ran. Capturing the movements of her feet with a  camera that took 900 frames per second.      They noticed that as Christine ran, her feet hitting the floor of the treadmill struck the ground at about seven times the force of gravity. The knot stre

So, a common case scenario. The night before school, you're lying in bed texting your best friend. You guys had an amazing day out and even though you promised yourself you'd go to bed at ten o'clock, the conversation is too good to pass up. Eventually, you fall asleep at 12:14 and end up waking up at 6:30 like you always do and it's awful. You're drowsy, tired, bleary eyed and not in the mood. Nearly half dead, you've gotten yourself out of bed, struggled to get yourself ready and found your way to school. Throughout the entire day you find yourself struggling to pay attention for more than thirty minutes, taking naps at intervals and getting in trouble with at least two teachers for falling asleep. Sound familiar? That's because it is. Only 15% of teenagers admit to getting at least 8 to 10 hours of sleep a night, and the rest who don't, have attributed their lack of sleep to their low moods and depressive spells. The effects of lack of

     You take out your laundry - you're sure of exactly how many clothes you have in that pile. Your T-shirt that you've worn four times in the last week, your underwear, your two trousers, a few tank tops, and three pairs of socks. At least you were sure you had all three pairs when the pile went into the washing machine. Somehow, you get your clothes back and a sock is mysteriously missing. Gone, to join the other lost socks, in the abyss of your washing machine, or the floor of the road to your washing machine, or maybe your underwear drawer because you never really took it out in the first place.          Well, weirdly enough scientists seem to have have figured out exactly what goes  into why your socks go missing as often as they do. So much so that there's actually a mathematical formula! So no Steven Hawking spontaneous black hole theory, no gremlins, just math and logic. According to Samsung's Adwash Research Post, which you can read here , this is the

             So, it's a noticeable thing that as we grow older, people seem to stop doing the things they love. The things that make them happy. It's like in the midst of school, and part time jobs, interning, paying bills and living like parents, we forget there are things we actually like to do. That life hasn't always been a jumble of making sure we have enough money to afford  food, and that the talents we used to have, that we forgot about, are somehow still inside of us and haven't died with our "what if's" and "I don't think I have time right now".      It's weird how when these talents leave us for such a long time,  you start to feel slightly  guilty - even though despite the guilt you don't start using them again. You don't suddenly decide one morning, I'm going to start today. No matter how long the nagging goes on. Why? I think it's because inside us we're all  scared, and somehow afraid. Because as 

     There are a few things I wish I would have been able to tell myself when I was Seventeen because they would definitely have helped make life easier. So now that you're seventeen, as you read this,  think of it as a letter from your future self: to you: 1.  Learn to save money, it's really going to help you in the future. You don't need to get everything you want. Most of them you can live without, and eventually you might be able to save up for that trip to Spain you've always wanted. 2.  Take care of yourself. Build good hygiene habits; brushing your teeth, taking your bath every morning. A lot of college students fall into the ritual of deodorant. No one wants to walk around, or beside someone who smells like a potent plant. You can only cover up so much odor with deodorant. 3.  Study, like your life depends on it. Because in a way it does. Imagine spending all that money  in school and coming out of it and not remembering anyt