Soon the cord, tangled and twisted, is wrapped around her throat like a noose.
Mouse-cord tangles should be abolished: run the cord out the mouse's upper surface, and plug the cable into the computer up high.
That is, as in the case of the cord-tangling, where we might optimize devices without looking under the desk, there may be biological optimization principles that do not "see" MDS order, and thus represent orthogonal factors.
With the example of cord-tangling in mind, let us consider the bizarre case of gene-scrambling in Ciliates, single-celled organisms with both a small germ-line micronucleus, and a larger somatic macronucleus, in which gene expression occurs.
If the umbilical cord is tangled around the baby's neck, etc., or twins' cords are tangled or the babies are joined at any part of the body--called conjoined twins, delivery usually requires a cesarean section.
Why? * Because there are no cords to tangle and catch on things, and no iPod to manage.
"In one case, the very first day the child was able to stand up in the crib, the child grabbed the cord, got tangled and died".
He was supposed to be stabilized during his fall by a small drogue parachute, but on one training jump in 1959 it did not open because the cord got tangled around his neck.
"Everything else I can do myself -- driving, shopping, cleaning the house... although when I vacuum, the cord gets tangled in my fingers".
