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Master Of Monster Motion, Ray Harryhausen, Passes Away At 92

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, May 7th, 2013

An inspiration to millions – creator, storyteller, pioneer, Ray Harryhausen has passed away.

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E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed Up Files… Author, Dies at 83

by Susana Polo | 2:03 pm, April 22nd, 2013

E. L. Konigsburg, Elaine Lobl Konigsburg, is probably remembered best as the long-named author of the even longer named From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, a book about a brother and sister who ran away to live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to teach their parents a lesson about appreciating them and to live in comfort while doing it, and wind up uncovering the secret origins of an unattributed angel statue in the Met’s collection, a mystery as old as Michelangelo.

The author, not just of Mixed-Up Files but rahter a score of books and novels died this last Friday in Falls Church, Virginia.

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Harry Potter, Withnail & I Actor Richard Griffiths, Age 65, Passes Away

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:05 am, March 29th, 2013

Sad news today: Actor Richard Griffiths, whom readers of this site will probably know best as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon Dursley, passed away yesterday following complications due to heart surgery. He was 65.

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“Ugliest” Woman in the World Given Proper Burial More Than 150 Years After Her Death

by Susana Polo | 2:41 pm, February 14th, 2013

Artist Laura Anderson Barbata stands beside the coffin of Julia Pastrana, a nearly one hundred and eighty year old woman whose husband exhibited her body as a sideshow attraction even after her death at the age of twenty six from complications in childbirth. Barbata’s eight year campaign to rescue Pastrana’s mummified body from basement of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Oslo came to an end: her remains were given a dignified burial near her birthplace in Mexico just this Tuesday.

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R.I.P. Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, Inspiration for Dottie in A League of Their Own

by Susana Polo | 4:12 pm, February 5th, 2013

True Story: The last time I saw the tail end of A League of Their Own, I had to look away so that I didn’t cry (becausethere’snocryinginbaseball). True details: I was running. On a treadmill. At the gym. And the television was on mute. One of the last times I was actually unable to not cry even by great force of will at a movie screening, it was a combination of watching The Muppets and knowing that Jim Henson‘s wife and daughter were in attendance.

So, from this evidence, I postulate that if there was anything guaranteed to make me cry buckets of salt tears, it would have been watching A League of Their Own with Lavonne “Pepper” Paire-Davis, who died this weekend at the age of 88.

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R.I.P. Oldest Living Nobel Prize Winner, Biologist Rita Levi-Montalcini

by Susana Polo | 11:43 am, December 31st, 2012

Yesterday, at the age of 103, Rita Levi-Montalcini died the longest lived Nobel Prize Winner in history, the tenth woman to be elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the co-discoverer of nerve growth factor, and a woman who refused to let her father’s ideas about gender or a state’s ideas about race keep her from doing some pretty great science.

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Megan Fox: Marine Biologist, Dolphin Whisperer [VIDEO]

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:35 pm, November 7th, 2012

The premise of this commercial: Megan Fox is pitched a movie with “unicorns, zebras, you in your underwear!” and decides she’d rather pursue her lifelong love of science. Marine biology, in particular. She then joins a team of male scientists and figures out a way to talk to dolphins. I couldn’t remember what brand of computer this was advertising like 30 seconds after I watched it, but really, does it matter?

(via: io9)

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Babylon 5′s Commander Sinclair Passes Away At 60

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:00 pm, September 30th, 2012

Comic writer, and Babylon 5 creator, J. Michael Straczynski announced via his Facebook page this weekend that star Michael O’Hare had passed away from a heart attack at the age of 60.

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Hot Flash, Cold Ocean: Orcas Go Through Menopause, Too

by Zoe Chevat | 2:02 pm, September 14th, 2012

Go go Granny Orca power

Humans are weird. Scientifically speaking (as well as in other ways…you saw that cat video, right?), we house a collection of evolutionary traits that are shared by few, or sometimes no, other animals on the planet. One of the weird things that we do, besides have sex that’s not about procreation at all (shared by close primate relatives like the bonobo, and dolphins, those scamps), is that our females have menopause.

And so, it turns out, do killer whales.

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Remembering Neil Armstrong, the First Man on the Moon

by Alanna Bennett | 12:30 pm, August 26th, 2012

99% of you have probably heard by now: Yesterday, Neil Armstrong died at the age of 82. He was the first person to ever step foot on the moon. He described himself as a “quiet, nerdy engineer,” and that he may have been, but we will remember him as that and so much more.

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