One of the sources suggested in our Meta conversation yesterday (State of the Soylent: Community Roundtable) was the physics blog Cocktail Party Physics, which had this neat video, How to Cut String with Your Bare Hands in it.
It's reminiscent of the sort of thing Mythbusters liked to reveal.
Thanks to tonyPick!
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @07:35AM
Does anyone know if you can get a decent degree of precision with this technique? Either way it's a nice trick to know.