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Hularious.

Neverdying Chinese PM Zhu Rongji is 94 today!

Adriano Moreira dead at 100.

As a big X-Files buff, I like to point out Maddox and Gibson wrote "Kill Switch" and "First Person Shooter", which are IMHO among the worst episodes of the series.

According to Chinese state media Hu Jintao was not feeling well as he is "recuperating recently". Recuperating from what? Heart surgery?

Shakira's ancient dad back in hospital .

Then you can avoid posting in this therad at all.

He moved like he had dementia...

Their other sister Joanna Simon, a soprano on her own, dead at 84....the day before Lucy. Bad week.

Can't find anything about him. More info?

César Cueto is not too well...

May Blood, Baroness Blood dead at 84.

Tsin Ting, Chinese actress picked here and there, dead at 88.

Ali Tehrani dead at 96.

New video of Manmohan voting. Looks like a wax statue but does not need a wheelchair now.

Sita Dahal back in ICU.

Prominent Catholic John P. Meier (wiki) reportedly dead at 80.

Ehm...I kinda did it on purpose.

You were an arsonist?

I've collaborated with Big Pharma, mainly to develop lipid nanocarriers.

Last year...

Yes, I'm a chemist. I've worked on many things so I know a bit of everything. Just a bit...

Ralph Pearson's death confirmed by UC Santa Barbara. A huge name in chemistry. HSAB is based only on empirical observations, yet it works a ridicolous amount of times. Kornblum rule directly derives from it: if you have a nucleophilic substitution with a bidentate nucleophile (i.e. SCN-) the nucleophile reacting depends on the reaction mechanism; for SN2 reaction the soft nucleophile reacts, for SN1 the hard nucleophile reacts. This is explained just on the basis a carbocation is a hard acid, so it tends to react with the hard base. Naive, but it works most times.

HSAB theory is very useful for inorganic chemistry. By the way, it works but it isn't a theory.