Humans use tools to do work! It’s what separates us from the animals! Except for crows… and honeybees… and dolphins… octopuses… well, regardless, tools are great and so is this episode!

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Chatelaines

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-killer-mobile-device-for-victorian-women/

https://toolbelts.com/tool-belt-history/

https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/History/cms/history

New Caledonian crows

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0278

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php

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Oldest stone tools

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/world-s-oldest-stone-tools-discovered-kenya

https://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/exhibit/oldowan-and-acheulean-stone-tools