Octopus Overlords

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:56 pm

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

Not that I'm aware of, but I didn't follow his life very closely. What are you thinking of?

Co-Discoverer of Turkana Boy and Homo ergaster

Homo ergasterIn 1972, Leakey led a team to northern Kenya to the Lake Turkana region, where they discovered a Homo rudolfensis fossil (sister species to Homo habilis). It created tremendous controversy. It was dated to 1.9 million years old. See the fossil at efossils.org:

There is much debate as to whether or not Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis are the same species.

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 6:32 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:56 pm

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

Not that I'm aware of, but I didn't follow his life very closely. What are you thinking of?

This:

Co-Discoverer of Turkana Boy and Homo ergaster

Homo ergasterIn 1972, Leakey led a team to northern Kenya to the Lake Turkana region, where they discovered a Homo rudolfensis fossil (sister species to Homo habilis). It created tremendous controversy. It was dated to 1.9 million years old. See the fossil at efossils.org:

There is much debate as to whether or not Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis are the same species.

Seemed like a bigger flap at the time.

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.

Jeff V wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:55 pm

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.

There are too few celebrity scientists. He and his parents Mary and Louis were 3 of them.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 6:50 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 6:32 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:56 pm

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

Not that I'm aware of, but I didn't follow his life very closely. What are you thinking of?

This:

Co-Discoverer of Turkana Boy and Homo ergaster

Homo ergasterIn 1972, Leakey led a team to northern Kenya to the Lake Turkana region, where they discovered a Homo rudolfensis fossil (sister species to Homo habilis). It created tremendous controversy. It was dated to 1.9 million years old. See the fossil at efossils.org:

There is much debate as to whether or not Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis are the same species.

Seemed like a bigger flap at the time.

Was that a willing charlatanism or just the usual scientific debate over what prehistoric evidence means?

Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff - identical and enigmatic twin brothers who have been an object of fascination in France for decades, partly due to their extreme cosmetic surgery - died within six days of each other at the age of 72.
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Neither had been vaccinated against Covid, their friend Luc Ferry, a former education minister, said last week.

Mr Ferry told Le Parisien newspaper that he had urged both of them to get vaccinated "countless times" but they refused on the basis that they were "very sporty, without an ounce of fat".

Lawrence Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran, died Wednesday at 112 years old in his native Louisiana.

Drafted in 1940, Brooks served in a segregated U.S. army as part of the mostly Black 91st Engineer Battalion where he climbed the ranks to Private 1st Class. Originally from a small village outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana he often recalled the freedom he experienced while part of the battalion stationed in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines.

“I was treated so much better in Australia than I was by my own white people. I wondered about that,” he once said, according to NBC News.

Holman wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:49 am RIP, Sir Sidney Poitier, age 94.

An utterly impressive actor (and the first black man to win the Academy Award for it), he was also a powerful voice for Civil Rights and other important causes.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:32 pm ARISTOCRATS!

dbt1949 wrote:And for us olde folk Dwayne Hickman died today too.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:03 pm Wow, Bob Saget was just found dead in his hotel room.

I did not see that coming. They haven’t released a cause of death yet.

Rumpy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:42 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:03 pm Wow, Bob Saget was just found dead in his hotel room.

I did not see that coming. They haven’t released a cause of death yet.

And there goes another icon from my childhood. Dang.

He was apparently touring a lot and I wouldn't doubt it if it were Covid related at this point.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 11:16 am At the end of one of the articles on his death, there's a note to contact the Suicide Prevention Hotline if you or anyone you know is thinking about suicide. I wonder if that's just shitty journalism, or if they've just not released info that he took his own life. I hope that's not true as I hate thinking that someone who seemed so full of life and happy could actually have done so.

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:25 pm
I’d be pretty surprised if he died in his hotel room of COVID.