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• The “Piano Stairs” Experiment

  
  First Person Irregular — Authority: 103
  In many situations, escalators are just stupid. Exhibit A: One really stupid escalator In an article called “ Taken for a Ride: The Insanity of Escalators ,” Jeffrey Hill rises to the challenge of describing how wasteful they are: The national energy use of escalators is estimated at 2.6 billion kilowatt ...
  3 days ago

• Children Learn a Maxim in Case an Elevator Gets Stuck: ‘Ring, Relax and Wait’

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Elevator Safety Week began the same day that a Brooklyn man, Gerhardt Fuchs, fell down a shaft to his death.
  5 days ago

• Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: Escalators Will Kill Your Children If They Can

  
  Needcoffee.com — Authority: 481
  Each week we want to give you a little something odd with which to start your week. Just a bit odd--consider it a vaccine against the WTF that your life will steadily become ensnared in as the work week progresses. But today we want to take the opportunity to warn you...against escalators. Direct link for the ...
  6 days ago

• Tops of Escalators

  
  Cool Mom - Fun Videos and a Blog for Moms - Motherhood, Kids, Babies and Parenting on Coolmom.com — Authority: 126
  Probably another symptom of sleep deprivation. Here, exposed. My deep dark secret. Sigh. Well, now you know it all. And I couldnt have done this in a less flattering angle. But anything for my art! My video explains it, but here is a good piece by a British writer about her fear of escalators and how she overcame ...
  6 days ago

• Drummer Dies After Fall in Elevator Shaft

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Jerry Fuchs
  6 days ago

• Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Passenger and cargo travel up and down a 60,000-mile cable is still decades in the future.
  1 week ago

• Akshardham metro station will be tallest, match temple’s look

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Not only will the upcoming Akshardham metro station here be the tallest to be built so far, it will also be the most aesthetically done so that it complements the magnificent Akshardham temple nearby, officials said.Scheduled to be opened mid-November, when the International Trade Fair is on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need~ Fight Club-1999

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 140
  Pantene: silky touch, irresistibly smoothRevita Beauty Centre: Relax with ShiatsuHead & Shoulders: Easy to combDuracellConsol Energy: America would have 50% less electricity if our coal miners didn’t make this trip every dayDHLHopiHari Theme Park: Have fun at Hopi Hari’s rollercoasterHP PhotosmartStabilo: the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stairs Designed to Keep You On Your Feet

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Iwan Baan We noted earlier that if stairs are designed to be inviting, then more people will use them. This is good for our health as they are great exercise, and good for saving energy as they use little, compared to escalators and elevators. Where most stairs are hidden behind fire doors, dreary concrete lined ...
  4 weeks ago

• Amanda Little Takes a Power Trip Across America - The TreeHugger Interview

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  images: Harper Collins Publishers If you’ve ever come to TreeHugger and after perusing posts for a while just wondered to yourself “How did we get ourselves into this environmental mess in the United States,” then Amanda Little ’s new book Power Trip: From Oil Wells to Solar Cells, Our Ride to the Renewable ...
  4 weeks ago

• Documentary Team Win Nau’s Inaugural $10,000 Grant 4 Change

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele are a Seattle-based documentary team specialising in multimedia stories about people, nature and climate change. They are also the just announced recipients of $10,000 from the eco outdoor clothing company Nau, who through their Grant 4 Change campaign, which ran from 7 July to 31 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Good News: Great Dane-Size Manatee Droppings Smother Florida’s Humiston Park Beach

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Florida Manatees at the beach. Image credit: Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tom Reinert, Via National Geographic While the sight of nearby excrement on the beach generally causes a visceral revulsion, the possibility of other people stepping in it is fascinating. Manatees being an endangered species, news ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Importance Of Fitness

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  People who are physically passive, face many health problems in the long run. Heart attack is the most common problem faced by lethargic people. In the U.K. almost 70% of the adult population face this problem and about 25% of them are profoundly lazy. In Austrailia 33% of the population is indolent and therefore they ...
  6 weeks ago

• Posting: A Witness Program for Elevators

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  IT ONLY CREAKS WHEN I USE IT New York’s elevators are being given stricter annual physicals.
  6 weeks ago

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