YoungWillz 21,086 Posted July 14, 2015 Professor Martin Litchfield West (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Litchfield_West) winner of the 2002 Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and appointed to the Order of Merit in 2014, emeritus professor in classics at All Souls, Oxford, 77. https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/news/martin-west-1937-2015 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,086 Posted July 17, 2015 Masahiko Aoki, professor emeritus at Stanford University who had been touted to be the first Japanese to win an Economics Nobel Prize, 77, lung disorder. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/17/business/economist-masahiko-aoki-dies-77/#.Vai8M6PbLrd Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,994 Posted July 24, 2015 Legal Scholar Christopher Fairman is dead at 54 after cardiac arrest: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/briefing-room/faculty/college-mourns-loss-of-professor-associate-dean-fairman/ His most important work was the examination of the legal implications of the word "Fuck". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,360 Posted July 27, 2015 Great article here from Oliver Sacks, telling deadpoolers considering him for their squads virtually everything they need to know. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html?referrer= Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,343 Posted July 27, 2015 Great article here from Oliver Sacks, telling deadpoolers considering him for their squads virtually everything they need to know. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html?referrer= Apart from where outside the liver his cancer is now but in any case that is a very bad indicator. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,662 Posted July 27, 2015 Legal Scholar Christopher Fairman is dead at 54 after cardiac arrest: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/briefing-room/faculty/college-mourns-loss-of-professor-associate-dean-fairman/ His most important work was the examination of the legal implications of the word "Fuck". Did the work extend to examining the synonyms Fucked and Dead? And, does anyone know if his last word was "Fuck-k-k-k...." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted August 4, 2015 Thought there was a philosophers thread.... Give your own answers to that, somewhere else. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,086 Posted August 4, 2015 Robert Conquest, Anglo-American historian, 98. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11782719/Robert-Conquest-historian-obituary.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter 2 DDP conquests. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 17, 2015 This one probably belongs in University Presidents. A cardiologist who served as dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has died. The school announced that Richard S. Ross, a cardiologist who also served as president of the American Heart Association in the early 1970s, died Tuesday. He was 91 and had been suffering from Parkinson's disease. Ross was dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1975 to 1990, the second-longest tenure in its history. SC http://m.cnsnews.com/news/article/former-dean-johns-hopkins-school-medicine-dies Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BuriedInCarolina 46 Posted August 17, 2015 Great article here from Oliver Sacks, telling deadpoolers considering him for their squads virtually everything they need to know. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html?referrer= Another excellent article from Oliver Sacks, from 8/14/15; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted August 17, 2015 Great article here from Oliver Sacks, telling deadpoolers considering him for their squads virtually everything they need to know.http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/opinion/my-periodic-table.html?referrer= Another excellent article from Oliver Sacks, from 8/14/15; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html that is beautiful work from Oliver sachs. This is when dl is depressing when you see people like him die and knowing that they'll never get better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,491 Posted August 17, 2015 Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 18, 2015 Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing! Sacks or Jimmy Carter to die first: would be a good poll question SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 27, 2015 Barry Bartmann, who had been a political science professor at UPEI since 1987, died suddenly at home on Friday at 73. Bartmann was also one of the professors involved in a human rights complaint against UPEI after being forced to retire. The P.E.I. Human Rights Commission ruled in the professors’ favour, forcing the university to compensate for lost income from 2007 to 2010. SC http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2015-08-27/article-4259168/UPEI-professor-Barry-Bartmann-dies/1 (PS OK I just d/l Windows 10 -- and now I can't attach a link to the text? Is that a W10 'bug' or has the site changed something?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Posted August 28, 2015 Barry Bartmann, who had been a political science professor at UPEI since 1987, died suddenly at home on Friday at 73. Bartmann was also one of the professors involved in a human rights complaint against UPEI after being forced to retire. The P.E.I. Human Rights Commission ruled in the professors’ favour, forcing the university to compensate for lost income from 2007 to 2010. SC http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2015-08-27/article-4259168/UPEI-professor-Barry-Bartmann-dies/1 (PS OK I just d/l Windows 10 -- and now I can't attach a link to the text? Is that a W10 'bug' or has the site changed something?) call in DCI Lewis. sounds suspicious to me ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,343 Posted August 28, 2015 Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing! Sacks or Jimmy Carter to die first: would be a good poll question SC I reckon Sacks will go first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adrian0719 224 Posted August 30, 2015 I've just finished rereading The Island of the Colourblind, by neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. He'll turn 80 soon and had a malignant tumor in his right eye a few years ago. One to keep an eye on. regards, Hein Dead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,491 Posted August 30, 2015 I've just finished rereading The Island of the Colourblind, by neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. He'll turn 80 soon and had a malignant tumor in his right eye a few years ago. One to keep an eye on. regards, Hein Dead. Damn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted August 30, 2015 I've just finished rereading The Island of the Colourblind, by neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. He'll turn 80 soon and had a malignant tumor in his right eye a few years ago. One to keep an eye on. regards, Hein Dead. Damn. Isn't it a shitter when an absolute cert falls before the start of the new year? Oh well, the man who mistook his life for an urn... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GossipGabe 333 Posted August 30, 2015 Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing!Sacks or Jimmy Carter to die first: would be a good poll questionSCI reckon Sacks will go first. That was fast, though hardly surprising. He had been diagnosed with metatatic melanoma well before Carter was. So if the course is similar in his case, would that mean that he has until 2016? Btw. this one is hilarious: [D]isability-rights activist Tom Shakespeare accused Dr. Sacks of exploiting the people he wrote about, calling him “the man who mistook his patients for a literary career.” Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RadGuy 1,614 Posted August 30, 2015 I wanted him on my 2016 list Crap Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 30, 2015 Former Vice-Chancellor of Hampi University M M Kalburgi was shot dead at his Kalyanagar residence here this morning by unidentified gunmen, police said. He was a scholar, academic and researcher who had landed in controversy on several occasions for his remarks on religious, social and other issues (YUP, THAT'LL DO IT!). He was also a recipient of Central and state Sahitya Academy awards. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sean 6,343 Posted August 30, 2015 Doesn't sound like Oliver will be troubling the 2016 DDP. Just 136 days to keep breathing!Sacks or Jimmy Carter to die first: would be a good poll questionSCI reckon Sacks will go first. That was fast, though hardly surprising. He had been diagnosed with metatatic melanoma well before Carter was. So if the course is similar in his case, would that mean that he has until 2016? Btw. this one is hilarious: [D]isability-rights activist Tom Shakespeare accused Dr. Sacks of exploiting the people he wrote about, calling him “the man who mistook his patients for a literary career.” Well Sacks was diagnosed with the condition in January so lasted seven months.I reckon seven months for Carter would sound about right too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,360 Posted September 10, 2015 Internationally renowned cancer research expert Dr Patrick Pollard, dead at the age of 41, after a quiet night in, snorting heroin and cocaine, gobbling valium tablets and quaffing beer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11856962/World-renowned-scientist-dies-after-taking-cocktail-of-drugs-with-girlfriend.html 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
