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Now for an intelligent being like our fly, this policy is not written in stone but rather changes as the animal learns from experience.
The oldest stone tools are choppers from the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa.
These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.
Our attitudes are not set in stone.
But on the front step, a person who was sitting there blocked the rays from hitting the stone.
Well no, not pieces of plastic, but stone seals, copper tablets, pottery and, surprisingly, one large sign board, which was found buried near the gate of a city.
It's a cupule that took 40 to 50,000 blows with a stone tool to create, and it's the first known expression of art on the planet.
This little trick of number words gives you a stepping stone into a whole cognitive realm.
You have 100,000 people in a nonviolent march, one idiot or agent-provocateur throwing a stone.
To kill two birds with one stone.
No stone left unturned.
One I thought had a kidney stone.
And they use robotic arms to print everything from solid stone to concrete, to wax.
Sorel cement was originally invented in 1867, and it's the beautiful chemical marriage of magnesium oxide and local sand, which they can now use to print solid stone walls.
And in France, they have a regulator-approved although still experimental process where they print two parallel tracks of foam insulation and pour concrete in the middle to create solid stone.
The underwater part was captured in a stone pit.
"You see that stone wall out there?
I built that stone wall with my bare hands.
Found every stone, placed them just so through the rain and the cold.
But do they call me MacGregor the stone wall builder?
Most are neoclassical, heavy and opaque, made of stone or concrete.
It's like throwing a stone in a pond of water.
I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft is this cacophony of men coughing, and stone being broken with primitive tools.
In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone for miles down mountainous terrain to trucks waiting at roads below.
The shafts are up to 300 feet deep, and they carry out heavy bags of stone that later will be transported to another area, where the stone will be pounded so that they can extract the gold.
I picked up a hand-sized stone, threw it as far as I was able, it was about 22 meters.
All of them, however, including myself, as we walk underneath those strange stone gargoyles just down the road, feel that we've become less than the sum of our parts, feel as though we have become profoundly diminished.
As we looked at the river itself, you could see there's a concrete stone on the west side.
And I say that not because I am African, but it's in Africa that you find the earliest evidence for human ancestors, upright walking traces, even the first technologies in the form of stone tools.
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