If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...

Just in time for the holidays, the diagonal gift wrap hack has gone viral. It’s age-old wisdom in some circles—a graduate student even wrote a paper about the math of the perfect gift wrap in 2007, ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Just in time for the holiday season, a diagonal gift wrapping hack has gone viral. The hack is particularly useful if you often cut paper too short to wrap a gift. Instead of ...

Wrapping presents is such a culturally agreed-upon futile challenge that there are explainers and demonstration videos everywhere, which most people watch, enjoy and then never emulate. Somehow, ...

Basically, the hack solves the age-old problem of running out of wrapping paper. Not quite enough paper to reach around the gift you’re trying to wrap? No problem: just turn the present diagonally!

It happens to the best of us over the holidays — not cutting the right amount of paper to wrap a gift, and only realizing the mistake once it’s too late. Now, a smart new hack has gone viral, showing ...

It's a simple trick that many social media users lamented they hadn't thought of sooner. Now—if the number of likes and shares on Twitter are any indication—millions of people may change the way they ...

It’s the eternal debate: to gift card or not to gift card? Pragmatists argue that gift cards are fabulously foolproof and guaranteed to be useful, while sentimentalists find them hopelessly impersonal ...

If you’re not sure how to wrap a present, there’s an easy hack you can try. The clever trick—wrap diagonally, not horizontally or vertically—is based in math. Basic geometric principles explain how it ...