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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

QUAFFING? I love your vernacular, DDT! One of my favourite woody words.

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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

Wow, you English folks have some meanie inconsiderate coroners in your country:

"On the balance of probabilities I am going to conclude his death was drugs-related and that will be my formal conclusion."

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Ahmad A. Rahman, a professor and Black Panther Party leader whose life sentence for murder was commuted by Gov. John Engler after a Free Press columnist and others campaigned for his release, died on Monday from a heart attack in his Belleville home. He was 64.

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http://www.freep.com/story/news/obituary/2015/09/23/professor-black-panther-sentence-commuted-dies-obituary/72699530/

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Donald Bowman, 85, died Monday, Oct. 26, in Tigard. Don was born Oct. 4, 1930, outside of Merrill, Ore., a descendant of Oregon pioneers dating to 1880.

During Bowmans tenure at Oregon State University from 1974 to 1987, he was a professor of Continuing Education, and administered a business training program called Endeavors for Excellence in 11 western states and Europe.

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http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2015/former-osu-professor-don-bowman-dies/

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Eminent german historian Hans Mommsen is dead at 85:

 

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/hans-mommsen-ist-tot-a-1061374.html(link in german)

 

He was a researcher of national socialsim and the great-grandson of historian Theodor Mommsen who received the Nobel Prize of Literatur in 1902 for his historic works. Mommsen's brother was also a historian. And they are all dead now.

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[H]e [...] administered a business training program called Endeavors for Excellence in 11 western states and Europe.

 

I wonder why the other 39 states and the rest of the world don't need excellence.

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[H]e [...] administered a business training program called Endeavors for Excellence in 11 western states and Europe.

 

I wonder why the other 39 states and the rest of the world don't need excellence.

I guess they're already excellent!

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[H]e [...] administered a business training program called Endeavors for Excellence in 11 western states and Europe.

I wonder why the other 39 states and the rest of the world don't need excellence.

I guess they're already excellent!

 

 

Sounds right.

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Henry Krystal, the psychologist who coined the term "survivor guilt" has died at 90, already back in October:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11977806/Henry-Krystal-psychiatrist-obituary.html

 

So many good people die, yet I continue living...

That's what we were all thinking.

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French philosopher André Glucksmann, commonly counted among the "nouveaux" philosophers along with Sartre or Foucault, has died at 78:

 

http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2015/11/10/mort-d-andre-glucksmann-le-philosophe-en-colere_4806244_3382.html(french link)

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French philosopher André Glucksmann, commonly counted among the "nouveaux" philosophers along with Sartre or Foucault, has died at 78:

 

Let me think about that...

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French philosopher André Glucksmann, commonly counted among the "nouveaux" philosophers along with Sartre or Foucault, has died at 78:

 

Let me think about that...

 

Therefore you are.

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Has philosopher Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929) ever been mentioned on here before?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas

Never on the entire site.

 

It depends on whether you are using 'mentioned' in a communicative rationalist sense in which case pragmatically he has, or in a post-modernistic quasi arational sense in which case none of this exists anyway.

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Wrong thread

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Richard Moore, a former Santa Monica College President who for two decades guided the institution through expansive growth in enrollment and added some of the ambitious programs for which the college is known today, has died.

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Michael Carroll, the Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Computational and Applied Mathematics and former dean of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, died Jan. 17 at age 79.

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http://news.rice.edu/2016/01/19/former-engineering-dean-michael-carroll-dies-at-79/

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Dr. Tom Bruce, 85, former Dean of the School of Medicine at University of Arkansas.

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