Hoping your recovery is going better Dianna! We're still cheering you on!

Wishing our favorite SCIENCE guru a very speedy recovery. Love and light to her AMAZING husband!! Rooting for them!!

Putting headphones in a pocket is like sending them through a portal to an alternate universe where the laws of physics as we know them do not apply.

What Dianna is going through is truly terrible; hoping she recovers soon 😢 Inspiring both before and after her sickness.

Missing you Dianna, keep fighting.

Wishing you and your husband, family and friends all the best with your slow but hopefully steady recovery!

Get well soon PHYSICS GIRL! We misd you sooo much. ❤

Learned this when wrapping kite lines for dual line stunt kites - and instinctively have done this with headphones for years… We miss you Dianna

hope you're feeling better!

Wishing you well. Get well, very, very soon, Dianna Cowern.

Get better soon

Hope you get better soon.

we miss you you.... there are really few people who actually talks about papers and academic researches. ( ._.) get well soon my prayers and wishes are with you we all do.

I like this. But even more, I'm happy to see your content in my feed. I hope your health is improving. Praying for your recovery.

Hope you are better Diana .We miss your awesome videos. My daughter sees you as a role model.

It’s also better for the cable because you’re not twisting it around and around.

I hope you’re getting better. I hope we can see you of good progress for you for us.

No updates since June. Praying that she is inching towards recovery day by day! ❤

I untangled my headphones by replacing them with bluetooth

I just came across your channel, and saw one of your videos of you laying down, with a mask and headphones and thought: she looks like me. I have severe ME/CFS and then realized you do too. I’ve had ME for 2 1/2 years and am bed-bound or couch bound 23 hours of day on average. I struggle to keep going especially in the winter, and am unable to speak or go anywhere much. I struggle to do basic things like eat, speak, think, and do basic self care like showering and brushing my teeth. I’m almost completely reliant on my family, they do everything for me. I’m sorry you are going through this darkness. You and your family aren’t alone, I will be praying for you and your family.❤

Here's hoping for a swift recovery!

This video short makes me both happy and sad. I know it must be a replay of an older post, and I am still wishing for a full recovery for our most favorite physics girl.

Miss your videos and fun style! Wishing you, your hubby and all loved ones nothing but the best. I couldn't care less if you don't make a video anytime soon as long as you get better, that's all that matters! Lots of love and hugs for you and your family. ❤🫂

I’ve been doing this for a few years, but I never thought about why it works. Informative video!!!

My goodness, you, my friend, are a g’damn genius!!! Keep being amazing!!!

Boom 😂❤ Get better soon pls 😢

I use this hack every day since I first saw the video. And everytime I have a thought for Dianna. So now, everytime I put my headphones away, I try to take a moment to pray for her recovery

Get better, Dianna, we're praying for you.

Brilliant! Love from Sweden! Get well soon.

Oh it's so good to see her smiling face. I can't wait till she recovers and comes back. She's going to have so many stories to tell.

Waiting for your recovery video and hoping its all good and that we will see you soon !!!!! lots of positive vibes your way Dianna !!!

Prayers for healing, Diana. We miss you.

I do this with my vacuum cleaner cord.

I'm happy physicists researched this

Love your videos! Hugs from Brazil!

Get well soon Dianna! Hoping for your quick recovery

Missing u😢. Great video. BOOM!

Miss you but wishing for better health

I have been doing this with all my cords since the first time I saw this clip. It's brilliant! Thank you so much, Dianna!

SENDING SOOOO MUCH LOVE & LIGHT❤❤❤❤

It's so wonderful when this cute, enthusiastic, physics-passionate girl shows up on my timeline! ❤ Hope you get well soon!

Hope your better soon!!! And if you keep garden hose on the ground, flake it out in a fig-8 as well. It greatly mitigates/eliminates kinking. Good for many other materials as well. BOOM! :)

the over under coiling technique also helps with avoiding tangled cables

I normally start detangling where the wire splits into two, then pull out the bigger single strand (it usually dissolves all would-be knots easily) but this looks like an additionally helpful measure.

We need an update on her health

This works for rope and water hoses as well, a retired fire fighter taught me the trick.

Good to hear these shorts. Miss you sister. Praying for full recovery.

We continue praying 🙏 for your full recovery, Dianna.

Not just "do this," but WHY. 😊

Does it work for my wireless headphones?

That’s how I wrap my welding cables. Also the oxy/acetylene hoses. Makes it easier to stretch out

Sending much warm wishes and speedy complete recovery Diana missing you much.

There's an over under for proper way to store cables such that they do not tangle. Once you figure it out you'll never wrap any cable up just by lopping it anymore.

I've been doing this forever. Sailors have also. Works for garden hoses, extension cords, audio cables, sailing, and so many more applications. Alternatively you can do a few winds in one direction and then a few winds in the other direction, either by winding on to the 'other end' of the imagined cylinder, or by doing a loop with a twist under itself. There's also a method of rolling the spool, but I usually find that annoying to work with, or a similar technique of alternating between picking up the next bit of cord with the left hand or the right, similar to the alternate ends of the cylinder, but you're carrying the cylinder in both hands and flipping the cylinder back and forth instead of just moving your winding hand back and forth. So there are few ways of completely eliminating the twists. I think perhaps my favourite is slipping every other twist backwards under itself, both clockwise, but one twisting clockwise and the other twisting the cord axially counter-clockwise to get it to flip behind itself, or behind the whole bundle to the other side of the cylinder. Hard to describe. Unfortunately it's not always tidy, especially for the figure 8. For my garden hose I actually have two separate pegs on the wall that I installed so I could do a figure-eight between them, like an infinity symbol. I usually have two long lengths spliced together so keeping from getting twisted is extra important.

Diana, hope you recover soon. All the best to your family and team. I’ve been wrapping my headphones in a figure 8 since this video was posted a few years back. It really works.

It does work! I've been doing this on a larger scale with long extension leads, too. The bottom of the loop is hooked on a foot and the top on one hand while using the other hand to continue to add more figure-8 loops. They are never in a tangled state next time I use them.

You've just popped back in my feed! So glad to see you better! Made my day.

My thoughts and prayers are with you for a quick recovery and as always I enjoy seeing any video with you teaching me something.

When I worked the sound desk at Banstead Baptist church with the two Stus, newbs were taught to wind cables by doing one forward loop then twisting the wire over to do one reverse loop, then continue back and forth line that. It takes a while to get used to it, but it solves the same problem. Just when you undo, grab both ends and throw the loops! Very satisfying. It's also better for the cable as it prevents the wire being turned and twisted the same way over and over and over again which eventually will damage the internal cores of the wire. I feel your figure eight method is almost the same thing but at you say with the added benefit of two loops to half the area for the ends to pop back through 😅. You learn something new every day!

Nice. Over under method also good for coiling wire. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.

Get better each day Diana 🤗!!! Nice to see this on my feed.

So hoping you have a full recovery cuz the world needs your love & light

Cool, I'll have to give it a try! One downside of smaller loops is that they bend the metal more than larger loops.

Miss you girl! Godspeed towards a full recovery! Sending much love your way...

Love to see these little shorts up on my subs page. Hang in there, girl. I'm not in anything like the same situation Dianna is, but I'm chronically ill, and... saying "get well soon" sticks in my throat, because there's no going back to 'normal,' really. But there are levels of ill, and I hope Dianna can get to a place where she can live life and enjoy it sooner rather than later.

The disadvantage in that is that the wires break and then one of the headphones volume lowers and eventually it's damaged.

As a sailor, I learned to not coil my lines, but collect them in the natural figure-8s of just gathering the loops in my left hand -- I'm right-handed. As a result, I could grab one end of the coil, toss everything else out, and no tangles. You're doing about the same thing, which works for you. *Best,* after you get in the habit, it becomes automatic, making it EASY.

Our headphones have become sentient and want to tangle. Prayers for your recovery. I found you through Destin's session on your channel.

I pray that you are feeling better Dianna!!

Just an fyi for those checking comments, the same applies to extention cords. The common technique for keeping an extension chord from tangling is to make a figure 8 compressed into a 0. It also works with your headphones, and allows you to add a velcro strap to hold the shape. The way I was taught was to think "twist, then untwist"

Get well soon ! Miss yer vids! Miss ya too ❤

GREAT tip! 🤔 Hope ur feeling better 🙏🏼

Learned this trick as a surveyor. We had 100’ cloth measuring tapes to wrap up, would start at the 50’ mark and go around thumb and pinky in a figure 8; if you did it right the ribbon would stay flat and never get twisted.

Can’t wait for you to wrap your headphones again! Get well soon!

Another trick is to unwind from the center, where the cord splits to each earbud. It's almost like unwinding twice, but the mess is far less likely to knot up.

You could always just fold them in half until they’re of appropriate size. Folding cables works great as long as you’re putting them in an enclosed space where they won’t have space to expand, and even that can be mitigated by simply undoing one of the ends from its fold and wrapping it around.

Thank you for the great tip! I will use it constantly. Wishing you a speedy recovery. Sending strength and love for your family

I’m just watching and liking and commenting all of Dianna’s stuff because it’s all I can do to help right now. Get well soon!

I do the same with extension cords and such, such a helpful technique for keeping things orderly!

i figured this out when a fire fighter taught me how to coil a water hose without twisting it. with the end of a wire in your right hand and continuing through your left with both palms down, make a normal full-hand loop. then move your left hand down and turn both palms up like you’re snapping a twig. from there, you pass the loop in your left hand to your right without flipping them and repeat. if you do it right, every other loop should be reversed to counteract the twisting. it’s pretty similar to the method in the video, but it stays in one circle and might not survive as much movement without a tangle unless you have tight pockets or hook the earbuds to the top of your pocket like i do.

We miss you Diana ❤ Get well girl, the world needs your wisdom. 💐

The figure 8 Works with garden hoses and extension cords as well

me with overhead headphones: yeah go on

Wishing you a full recovery!

Still rootin for your full recovery diane, seeing a new video from you will be a very happy day indeed

Hope youre recovery is going well, love from UK

Love you, Diana! Hope you feel better!

Heartbreaking to see what you're going through. As a (much milder) sufferer of CFS, I understand being scared you'll never have the energy for books, socializing, life. It's not much, but I'll be sure to watch and like lots of your videos to get you that cash.

Works with garden hoses too, the fig.8 easily opens and doesn't kink

Diana, praying you recover soon and your family have strength

Been doing the 8 with all wires since i can remember. I learn it works by trying different ways to pack wires. Its great for long hoses too. 👍

My dad taught me to do this with garden hoses. You don't get knots with hoses, but by stowing them as a figure eight you avoid kinking the hose when you pull it across the yard.

I just heard about a branch of mathematics that have to do with knots and now I am reintroduced to a video that show a practical use for that branch of mathematics! So awesome! Wishing you the best PhysicsGirl!

From stowing threads and ropes, but also works on headphones and (long enough) cables: Line up both loose ends, hold them between thumb and index finger. Now make your figure eight. When the length is almost used up, wrap the looping end around the middle of your eight, overlapping itself at least once. Then through one of the figure-eight loops and over. Ta-da! Compact, no knots, doesn't just loosen itself, perfect for the backpack.

I started doing this a couple years back when you did the video and I haven't looked back since. I just fold it and put it in my pocket in such a short time that I don't even realize what I'm doing, and they ALWAYS come out untangled and ready to use. I have a new pair but the other ones survived for 2 years, outliving my wireless earphone's battery life

The same applies to all other cables - and garden hoses!

I hope this video means you're still with us, and getting back in front of the camera. It's been a while since people got lucky with such incredible presentation.

Thanks for the tip! I hope you’re healing ❤

This is soooo helpful, thank you!!

Who uses wired headphones in 2023