Dismembered man put to use

No, I’m a barely competent flint-knapper, but I know the difference between hard and soft hammer techniques :slight_smile: . I’m reasonably good with a fire drill - the trick is being able to identify the right wood for it. Try it some time, it’s fun (but don’t count on being able to teach it to a teenager).

Edit: Incidentally, I don’t mean to imply that kids today aren’t capable of learning these things, I’m stating as fact that they aren’t doing it, for the most part, and instead they are learning more complex tools like computers and cell phones. When I was helping high school seniors learn to build robots, I found some of them did not have the correct muscle development to use simple hand tools because they never had done anything of the sort before. It took them weeks to learn to keep a phillips head screwdriver in the end of a screw, and some of them never did master standard screws.

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