In fact, 80% of Spain's machine tools are from the Basque Country.

Clearly, there is no such thing as a "perfect" memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

The cordless, hand-held tools we use in our homes, such as vacuum cleaners, flashlights, drills and saws came from the technology of these early space programs.

They may be ancient "beer-making tools", and the earliest direct evidence of beer brewing in China, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Engineers, scientists and agriculturalists have the knowledge, tools and systems that will assist in achieving productivity increases.

It's all very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a do-it-yourself without being all that good with tools.

The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship - simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor - is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country

And Warren Buffett, the good-natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls (工作服).

What does the author think of mastering tools and working with one's hands

The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and non-white students as early as the seventh grade, using innovative tools to identify kids with sophisticated verbal skills.

By offering instant discounts worth as much as $100, DeWalt launched a trade-in program to encourage people to bring back tools.

Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems.

For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

He simply doesn't discriminate when it comes to the newness of tools.

It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy.

It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.

Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one—industrialization.

Power tool maker DeWalt partners with companies, such as Lowes and Napa Auto Parts, to collect old tools at their stores for recycling.

Rarely has there been a better example of the power of attitude, one of our most powerful psychological tools.

Smartphones offer new tools for achieving these ambitions, providing rich data about everyday behaviors in a variety of contexts.

Young farmers are guided by their love for agriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology to find inexpensive and appropriately sized tools.