Cat O'Falk 3,290 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 QUAFFING? I love your vernacular, DDT! One of my favourite woody words. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GossipGabe 333 Posted September 11, 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 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." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted September 14, 2015 Academic researcher pleads not guilty to murdering his wife due to "mental incompetence". Yes, he's an academic, all right.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-14/university-researcher-pleads-not-guilty-to-murdering-wife/6773860 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 24, 2015 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. SC http://www.freep.com/story/news/obituary/2015/09/23/professor-black-panther-sentence-commuted-dies-obituary/72699530/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted October 14, 2015 Longtime Michigan State University journalism professor and community activist Bonnie Bucqueroux has died, her husband Drew Howard confirmed today via social media. SC http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2015/10/14/msu-journalism-professor-bonnie-bucqueroux-dies/73932114/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 4, 2015 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. SC http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/lifeatosu/2015/former-osu-professor-don-bowman-dies/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted November 5, 2015 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 6, 2015 [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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 6, 2015 [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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 6, 2015 [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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted November 6, 2015 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... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 6, 2015 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted November 10, 2015 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) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted November 10, 2015 French philosopher André Glucksmann, commonly counted among the "nouveaux" philosophers along with Sartre or Foucault, has died at 78: Let me think about that... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Davey Jones' Locker 1,324 Posted November 10, 2015 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weebl 216 Posted November 26, 2015 Has philosopher Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929) ever been mentioned on here before? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cat O'Falk 3,290 Posted November 26, 2015 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted November 26, 2015 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. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Weebl 216 Posted November 27, 2015 Another name for you... Geert Hofstede, b. 1928, Dutch psychologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ra Ra Rasputin 99 Posted November 30, 2015 Another name for you... Geert Hofstede, b. 1928, Dutch psychologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede Stop it! I have/had Geert Hofstede on my 2016 possibilities list and would have liked a unique hit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 3, 2016 Wrong thread Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 10, 2016 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. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 20, 2016 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. SC http://news.rice.edu/2016/01/19/former-engineering-dean-michael-carroll-dies-at-79/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted March 6, 2016 Dr. Tom Bruce, 85, former Dean of the School of Medicine at University of Arkansas. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted March 6, 2016 Alan Greenspan turns 90 today. Still relatively active as a commentator, but getting a bit gloomy, like here: http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/03/alan-greenspan-bullish/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
