Simon is pretty obsessed with Knot Theory at the moment (a mathematical theory that is widely used in advanced biology and chemistry, for example in handling tangled DNA).
He also learned a few tricks from one of his favourite teachers on Numberphile – Tadashi Tokieda – that probably also have something to do with Knot Theory. By folding a strip of paper in a certain way and placing rubber bands and paper clips on it and then pulling the ends of the paper strip, Simon gets the paper clips and the rubber bands linked together:
Making mathematical knots using rubber bands. A borromean ring:
Simon says “it’s good for meditation”, too:
Geeks out of the box 