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Alefroth wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:59 pm Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90 years old.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/so ... 021-12-26/

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against apartheid who was revered as his nation's conscience by both Black and white, died on Sunday aged 90.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 4:53 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Sun Dec 26, 2021 2:59 pm Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90 years old.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/so ... 021-12-26/

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against apartheid who was revered as his nation's conscience by both Black and white, died on Sunday aged 90.

Him and his name has been in my life for many decades now. RIP. He would be a Saint in many people's eyes.

Freyland wrote:You have to have a great sense of humor talking to anesthesiologists, otherwise the audience just kind of goes numb.

As an expert on insects, Dr. Wilson studied the evolution of behavior, exploring how natural selection and other forces could produce something as extraordinarily complex as an ant colony. He then championed this kind of research as a way of making sense of all behavior — including our own.

As part of his campaign, Dr. Wilson wrote a string of books that influenced his fellow scientists while also gaining a broad public audience. “On Human Nature” won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1979; “The Ants,” which Dr. Wilson wrote with his longtime colleague Bert Hölldobler, won him his second Pulitzer in 1991.

Retired Navy SEAL and the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard “Dick” Marcinko, has died, according to a post on the Navy Seal Museum’s Facebook page.

He was 81.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:39 am Famous biologist and author E.O. Wilson died yesterday at the age of 92:

As an expert on insects, Dr. Wilson studied the evolution of behavior, exploring how natural selection and other forces could produce something as extraordinarily complex as an ant colony. He then championed this kind of research as a way of making sense of all behavior — including our own.

As part of his campaign, Dr. Wilson wrote a string of books that influenced his fellow scientists while also gaining a broad public audience. “On Human Nature” won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1979; “The Ants,” which Dr. Wilson wrote with his longtime colleague Bert Hölldobler, won him his second Pulitzer in 1991.

I've read a few of his books and essays (did so as part of a college class), but Diversity of Life (no Amazon or Kindle link, sorry) and In Search of Nature stick out to me. He's been part of various documentaries over the last 25+ years so if his name rings a bell, that might be why.

He was such a great writer; RIP.

Sarah Weddington, a Texas lawyer who as a 26-year-old successfully argued the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Sunday. She was 76.

Susan Hays, Weddington's former student and colleague, said she died in her sleep early Sunday morning at her Austin home. Weddington had been in poor health for some time and it was not immediately clear what caused her death, Hays told The Associated Press.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 2:09 pm Too bad. Looks like they're going to need him.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:28 pm John Madden passes at 85. Truly a legend.

Harry M. Reid, a Nevada Democrat who rose from a hardscrabble mining town to become one of the longest-serving Senate majority leaders in history and a political force during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, died Dec. 28 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He was 82.

The death was confirmed by David Krone, a former chief of staff. Mr. Reid was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018.

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:38 pm I watched him coach on TV and do his color commentating both. He was okay and I felt rather neutral about him all things considered.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 29, 2021 1:05 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:38 pm I watched him coach on TV and do his color commentating both. He was okay and I felt rather neutral about him all things considered.

When I was growing up, John Madden WAS football.

First as the coach of the Raiders (dad’s favorite team, so mine by default), then as the voice of the broadcasts, then as the face of the video games. He was synonymous with the NFL.

Although he’s been out of the spotlight for years, I’m not sure his overall impact will ever be equaled.

A hard-nosed running back with the Dallas Cowboys who would go on to be a head coach for the Denver Broncos, New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons, Reeves has passed away at the age of 77.

Reeves' family released a statement to NFL Network's Mike Garafolo:

"Legendary NFL player and coach Dan Reeves passed away early this morning, peacefully and surrounded by his loving family at his home in Atlanta, GA. He passed away at age 77 due to complications from a long illness. His legacy will continue through his many friends, players and fans as well as the rest of the NFL community. Arrangements are still to be determined."

Reeves remains the only person to have ever appeared in multiple Super Bowls as both a player and a coach.

Robert Bruce, a cast member from the popular reality TV show “Comic Book Men,” was found dead inside a New Jersey storage facility, according to a report.

Bruce, 62, was found Friday at the City Center Plaza Professional Records Storage Facility in Red Bank after his family did not hear from him for several days, NJ.com reported.

Police said his family believed Bruce had been living in a basement unit at the storage facility, which served as his office, the outlet said.

Cops do not suspect foul play.

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:26 pm Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey is dead at 77.

His discoveries made clearer the ancient ancestry of homo sapiens (and its predecessors) and the origins of humankind in Africa.

I'm surprised to learn that he was only in his 70s. I remember watching his documentaries in junior high in the early 1980s.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 7:02 pm Wasn't there some controversy where Leakey was accused of being a charlatan?