Blood Tie is a 1977 novel by American novelist Mary Lee Settle, published by Houghton Mifflin. The novel, her eighth, won the 1978 National Book Award for Fiction. With the award, Settle became the ...

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.

Bernie Littman, 100, and Marjorie Fiterman, 102, set a Guinness World Record as the world's oldest newlyweds, marrying in May ...

We tie our shoes, we put on neckties, we wrestle with power cords. Yet despite deep familiarity with knots, most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them, new Johns Hopkins ...

I rather like Blood Knots, Luke Jennings’s title. It is both apt – the blood knot is used to connect two lengths of nylon, and its little brother, the half-blood knot, to tie on the hook – and ...

They would have to stick the pin in the right places, tie the knotted tangles with immaculate precision, and never leave the sponge. If their thread ended up floating in the empty holes of the sponge ...

Gerry Turner is speaking out about the cause of his divorce. The 'The Golden Bachelor' star says a surprising cancer ...

Gerry Turner, ABC's first Golden Bachelor, shared in a recent interview that a cancer diagnosis after tying the knot with Teresa Nist partially lead to his deci ...

In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, 'Golden Bachelor' star Gerry Turner revealed he was looking for love and holding ...

Tying the Knot...or not? When it comes to marriage, how it's looked at has changed over the years. Allison Raskin explains how the younger generation views getting married in her new book 'I Do (I ...

A Barrel Knot (also known as a Blood Knot) is used for joining to ends of nylon casts or leaders together, whilst maintaining a high proportion of the lines internal strength. Knots can also be ...