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Out of respect for Joe Lieberman's family, the early runs of our obituary will downplay his killing of the Obamacare public option, warmongering in Iraq, championing of Betsy DeVos, lobbying for China's ZTE, and co-chairmanship of No Labels.
RIPLouis Gossett Jr, the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar, and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries Roots, has died. He was 87.
“It is with our heartfelt regret to confirm our beloved father passed away this morning,” Gossett’s family said in a statement, adding: “We would like to thank everyone for their condolences at this time. Please respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time.”
He wrote extensively about suffering racial discrimination and police harassment earlier in his career, even while he was breaking boundaries as an actor.
He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work showing how the boson helps bind the universe together.
A statement from Edinburgh university said he died in Edinburgh on Monday.
It called him a "truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us."
And CERN started up again on April 8, and then there’s the eclipse… cue the conspiracy theories…Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:06 pm Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised Higgs boson, dies aged 94
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-enviro ... press.coop
He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work showing how the boson helps bind the universe together.
A statement from Edinburgh university said he died in Edinburgh on Monday.
It called him a "truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us."
I was going to post this just not in this thread. I wonder who they'll have play him in the naked gun remakeVolkonski wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:45 am O.J. SIMPSON
DEAD AT 76
After Cancer Battle
https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/oj-simps ... es-cancer/
Philly BoondoggleRobert MacNeil, a Canadian-born broadcast journalist who built what is now “PBS NewsHour” and served for two decades as its urbane, evenhanded co-anchor, died April 12 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 93.
What is now “PBS NewsHour” was “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report”. He was terrific.AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:15 pm https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituari ... -newshour/
Robert MacNeil, a Canadian-born broadcast journalist who built what is now “PBS NewsHour” and served for two decades as its urbane, evenhanded co-anchor, died April 12 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 93.
news clipOldest living conjoined twins die at 62 in Pennsylvania
wgaltv
16 Apr 2024
The world's oldest conjoined twins, Lori Schappell and George Schappell, died last week in Pennsylvania at the age of 62.
Daniel Dennett (1942-2024)
By Dustin Sigsbee.
April 19, 2024 at 10:59 am 40
Daniel Dennett, professor emeritus of philosophy at Tufts University, well-known for his work in philosophy of mind and a wide range of other philosophical areas, has died.
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel ... 1942-2024/
My own view of philosophy and its general lack of worth (comparable to astrology and theology) is that too many philosophers appeared then (and now?) to believe that the important activity is to ask questions. No, the important activity is to identify important, interesting or significant questions and answer them. The philosophers too often forgot the need both for questions to have value and the answers to be found (or at least approached).“A great deal of philosophy doesn’t really deserve much of a place of the world,” he says. “Philosophy in some quarters has become self-indulgent, clever play in a vacuum that’s not dealing of problems of any intrinsic interest.”
Much if not all philosophical work in analytic metaphysics, for example, is “willfully cut off from any serious issues,” says Dennett. The problem, he explains, is that clever students looking to show off their skills “concoct cute counterarguments that require neither technical training nor empirical knowledge.” These then build off each other and invade the journals, and philosophical discourse.
