1. Get one index card (or cardstock) and a pair of scissors.
2. Fold it in half and crease the fold.
3. Position the scissors at the fold.
4. Make straight cuts but don’t snip right off the edge.
5. Flip (towards you) to the opposite side and be ready for another round of cutting.
6. Cut on the middle of each strip. Again, don’t cut right through the end.
7. You’ll get a zig zag like this.
8. Go back to the fold, skipping the FIRST and LAST strip, trim off the fold on all the remaining strips.
9. Open up and you’ll find a hole that is indeed big enough for you to make your way through from the head down or from the feet up.
This is adapted from Dr. Robert Krampf’s science experiment #11 on the science of topology.
Tips:
If you cut narrower strips in step 4, the hole gets even bigger. And if you accidentally snip off the first or last strip, you will have cut yourself a paper streamer.
Say if you (ever) have to entertain someone with a simple trick or make a paper-party-necklace, you know what to do!
I prefer to have my knifes just above the kitchen sink but apart from an Ikea Grundtal rail + 2 hooks, there isn’t any space for a magnetic bar. In reality, with just 2 knifes; a paring and a chef’s, which are the ones I use most of the time, a bar may not be necessary after all.
The 53cm (21″) rail hangs sponges, a strainer and peelers and it covers almost the entire wall distance behind the sink.
Since Grundtal is magnetic, I’m more than happy to grab my .95cm (3/8″) rare earth and ceramic magnets to setup a mini panel ready for some serious attraction.
The chef’s knife (length = 25.4cm/10″) needs 2 rare earth for a firmer grip.
You can tell that the magnetic grip isn’t sufficient if the knife tilts to the side and/or if the magnet clings onto the knife as you remove that knife from the rail. But all that is solved with the addition of a ceramic magnet placed on top of the rare earth (and not the other way round).
A word of caution if you are setting this up: keep the knife far away from the rare earth until the setup is completed. Be careful when handling very strong magnets and sharp objects, for their mutual attraction to each other is hard to tear apart and you could be the one getting hurt! Ugh. Sounds like a love triangle.
I learnt this trick from a Taiwanese program on smart tips and shortcuts for daily living. I think that was in 2005. It was such a fantastic tv show! Afterwhich I’ve spotted the same instructions posted at Instructables and Truveo. Well, for my personal use, I take 3 extra steps to complete the procedure which I’ll explain why further down.
Steps:
1. Align the papers. Here I’m using 5 sheets of letter-size.
2. On the top left-hand corner, fold a small triangle and crease the fold. The fold (ie the longest part of the triangle) is about 5.2cm long, however measuring is not necessary.
3. Rotate the stack and bring the fold closer to you.
4. Cut a 1cm-long slit, about 2cm from the edge on the fold, then cut another slit about 1cm away from the first one.
5. Fold and crease the flap as shown.
You could stop at Step 5, which is officially the end. The next 3 steps seek to hold the flap down.
6. Lift up the flap from Step 5 and create that little hollow space.
7. At the top of the flap, press it down to flatten.
8. Fold down the 2 halves.
Finished!
This is how it looks after you’ve completed all the steps, except for the triangle (Step 2), which has been folded over to the back of the stack instead of forward.
Tips:
The heavier the paper, the bigger the triangle fold and the deeper the slits.
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