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Bridges have big posters and they have nails.
That's enough to stick six 42-inch plasma TV's to your wall, no nails.
Brass nails tacked into the ebony wood, your face has been carved five times.
Nancy Kanwisher: So this experiment — (Applause) — this experiment finally nails the case that this region of the brain is not only selectively responsive to faces but causally involved in face perception.
And dig at it with our nails, damaging the flesh.
I simply picked up the piece of fruit, dug at it with my nails, tried to flick it off, and then wondered, "Was there another sticker?"
The human body can make stuff like ear wax and toe nails, but these organisms can turn parts of their body into glow sticks.
And all I want to do is celebrate her for her beauty, and the things that make her beautiful and special and free, from her long acrylic nails, to her uncompromising black feminism.
What is it made of?" ... they will find out that this entire work of art is made of a wooden board, 10,000 nails and one unbroken piece of sewing thread.
Long nails?
So, this is a project for Nine Inch Nails.
What's also quite incredible is that there are five materials that are used to build this settlement for seven million people: eight-foot tall bamboo, string or rope, nails or screw and a skinning material.
But if you want a more stylish version, you could also paint your nails in different colors.
Even the ancestors of primates used to wield these impressive appendages, until their claws evolved into nails.
So what in our evolutionary past led to this manicured adaptation, and what can nails do that their sharper cousins can’t?
When nails first appeared in the fossil record around 55.8 million years ago, claws had already been present for over 260 million years in the ancestors of mammals and reptiles.
Both nails and claws are made of keratin— a tough, fibrous protein also found in horns, scales, hooves and hair.
These high-density cells give nails and claws their trademark toughness.
Since nails evolved from claws, both adaptations produce keratinocytes in the same way.
Animals with nails, on the other hand, have much broader digits, and keratinocytes only cover the top surface of their wide bones.
It’s possible that nails have simply persisted as a side effect of primates evolving wider, more dexterous fingers.
But given what we know about the habitats of our primate ancestors, it’s more likely that nails came with their own powerful advantages.
And nails improved that grip even further.
Additionally, nails improved the sensitivity of their digits by providing an extra surface to detect changes in pressure while climbing.
The evolution of nails and the evolution of opposable thumbs and toes are closely linked.
However, both claws and nails are used in some unexpected ways.
Manatees use nails to grasp their food, and researchers think elephant toenails may sense vibrations in the ground to help them hear.
We’ve only scratched the surface of all the incredible ways nails and claws are used throughout the animal kingdom.
These ships were powered by sail and oars and relied on a strong skeleton of internal timbers fastened to the outer planks with copper, iron, and wood nails.
So boat builders began to use iron nails for fasteners rather than sewing.
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