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Every time the tide comes in and out, you find some more shells.
On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
Basically, New York was built on the backs of oystermen, and our streets were literally built over oyster shells.
So for instance, you could develop super-efficient roof structures based on giant Amazon water lilies, whole buildings inspired by abalone shells, super-lightweight bridges inspired by plant cells.
And a lot of people might use structures like abalone shells, like chalk.
Natural shells, natural biological materials.
The challenges that we face cannot go away if we recoil and retreat into our shells, wishing and imagining that those problems will somehow magically disappear.
What houses were left looked like cardboard boxes left in the rain; two-story monstrosities with wide-open shells and melted porches.
When I was a child, I had multiple collections of sticks and stones and pebbles and shells.
But you know, these shells, they're hard to find.
You have fragments of other shells.
And the reason that is, is because in a place like this island, a lot of the sand is made of biological material because the reefs provide a place where all these microscopic animals or macroscopic animals grow, and when they die, their shells and their teeth and their bones break up and they make grains of sand, things like coral and so forth.
For example, coconut shells crushed in a machine mixed with rice straw, powder of rice husk mixed with organic manure is finally dumped in soil on which our forest is planted.
Anger is within each one of you, and I will share a secret for a few seconds: that if we are confined in the narrow shells of egos, and the circles of selfishness, then the anger will turn out to be hatred, violence, revenge, destruction.
Working with an ancient material, one of the first lifeforms on the planet, plenty of water and a little bit of synthetic biology, we were able to transform a structure made of shrimp shells into an architecture that behaves like a tree.
The way that we've been able to do that is to get past those defensive shells and really see the soft inside of unbelief and belief and try to respect each other while still holding boundaries clear.
The Greeks fought it by chewing aromatic resins, while the Chinese resorted to egg shells.
But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think, from crabs with one giant pincer claw to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction.
Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells to protect and isolate ourselves.
Love's delight, intimacy, and warmth helps us overcome our fear of the world, escape our lonely shells, and engage more abundantly in life.
In the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, you can hear the shells across the border in Syria at nighttime.
Now these ions are basically the building blocks for many marine species to make their shells, for example crabs or mussels, oysters.
As ocean acidity increases and the concentration of carbonate ions decrease, these species first find it more difficult to make their shells.
Fishermen are particularly interested in their adductor muscles, which are organs that hold the two shells together like a hinge.
It is time for the giant clams to step out of their shells, and show the world that they, too, can be the heroes of the oceans.
So, as soon as a crab touches them, they retract down into their shells, just like your fingernails.
So they ran all the shells for us, which was nice of them.
Its half-shelled body illustrates an important point about the modern turtle: it actually has two shells that develop totally separately while the turtle is still an embryo.
Modern turtle shells are almost as diverse as the turtles themselves.
Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water.
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