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cmonforton | January 21, 2016Kevin Purpura, 39, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Friday, January 15 while working at major renovation project in Wheeling, WV. His employer was Sandow Development.
The (Wheeling) Investigator reports:
Mr. Purpura “fell several stories while working inside the former Boury Warehouse."
Wheeling police said he was “inspecting metal studding surrounding an elevator shaft” when he fell.
The worksite is a “six-story, 120-year-old former warehouse…[which] is being converted into roughly 70 loft-style apartments by the Woda Group of Westerville, Ohio."
The “Boury Lofts” project is valued at $…
dr. dolittle | August 21, 2014 Image of a green tree python from www.kids.britannica.com J.H. Pete Carmichael—The Image Bank/Getty Images
Dr. Greg Byrnes (Siena College, Loudonville, NY) and Dr. Bruce Jayne (University of Cincinnati, OH) discovered that snakes use more force than is necessary to support their weight when climbing. To climb, snakes rely on friction and repeatedly contract and extend their bodies, a process called concertina locomotion. To study the forces generated by snakes during this type of locomotion, the researchers constructed a vertical cylinder that was covered with textured tennis racket tape…
esiegel | February 27, 2013"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
I'm sure you've thought about it before: what would happen if you dropped something into a bottomless pit?
Image credit: original source unknown.
No, not one of those fake bottomless pits that you find in various Mystery Spots off the beaten trail.
Image credit: Mel's Hole, courtesy of http://komonews.com/ in Seattle, Washington.
Those may be deep, but they're definitely not bottomless. And I want something truly bottomless…
edyong | April 15, 2009Autumn is a time of incredible beauty, when the world becomes painted in the red, orange and yelllow palette of falling leaves. But there may be a deeper purpose to these colours, and the red ones in particular. In the eyes of some scientists, they aren't just decay made pretty - they are a tree's way of communicating with aphids and other insects that would make a meal of it. The message is simple: "I am strong. Don't try it."
During winter, trees withdraw the green chlorophyll from their leaves, and textbooks typically say that autumn colours are produced by the pigments that are left…
zooillogix | March 8, 2007Sadly, this video makes me wish more animals suffered from narcolepsy... particularly on video. I suppose we can all be thankful that Rusty, being a dachshund, does not have very far to fall.