Tool Use
Until quite recently, tool use was considered to be a uniquely human behavior. Early anthropologists taught that the use of tools was limited to Homo sapiens and used the presence of tools as...
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Tools, Types Of
Just like mechanics and technicians on Earth, astronauts use a variety of manual and portable power tools in space to repair, service, and maintain spacecraft, like the space shuttle a...
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Animal Tools
"Tools maketh man," so said Kenneth Oakley, the pre-historian. He meant that only human beings make tools of flaked stone. More generally, many species of animals make and u...
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Tools and Machines
Tools and machines are almost universally thought of as beneficial, which would make their invention morally praiseworthy. Indeed, without tools it is difficult to see how human bei...
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Diagnosis
Multimedia training options are dazzling – and dizzying.
Prescription
Blend media for a sensational training session. Training options have expanded to include a d...
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Google Inc. has released the latest upgrades to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest successes outside the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traff...
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The changes have come lightning quick in the nearly three decades since Missouri agricultural extension agents first preached the power of computers to skeptical farmers.Gone are the bulky main fra...
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You wouldn't want to use it to carve a Thanksgiving turkey, but if you need to push a cuticle, measure a tire tread, clean a golf club or adjust a bicycle spoke, this is the knife for you.A Swiss A...
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Nike Inc. released its third corporate responsibility report Thursday with a bit less punch than in years past.The company's initial report in 2001 was intended to show how it had handled complaint...
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Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago _ before the island had permanent ...
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Using a new laptop and a satellite link, FBI agents can find out within two minutes whether the fingerprint from a newly captured suspect overseas matches a terrorist database in Virginia.Intellige...
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The Army unveiled parts of its high-tech Future Combat Systems on Thursday in a mock raid on a fictitious village, demonstrating equipment that aims to make soldiers' work safer.The late morning ex...
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What edits on Wikipedia have been made by people in congressional offices, the CIA and the Church of Scientology? A new online tool called WikiScanner reveals answers to such questions.As the Web e...
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Tool Use
Tools, Types Of
Animal Tools
Tool time
