Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition
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Desmond Morris zoologist, ethologist, sociobiologist.
“This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!”
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@Gashlycrumb said in Celebrities We've Lost 2026 Edition:
Desmond Morris zoologist, ethologist, sociobiologist.
One of the most influential and underrated thinkers of our time.
I always link this short opinion piece of his from +20 years ago, still relevant today as we continue to learn more about animal sentience and linguistics. RIP naked ape, your understanding of how unspecial we are as a species made you special among our kind. -
@Gashlycrumb I showed my husband the series The Human Animal last year and it took me back to when I watched it during the original US broadcast. I had to sneak watching it because my religious household forbade secular television, and looking back I’m pretty sure it is part of what helped me eventually break the spell of religion and find peace with a scientific world view. Thanks for everything, Desmond.
Here’s a link to the mini series. https://archive.org/details/vid-20230113-091100
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Ted Turner, founder of CNN, TBS, and TNT.
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Koji Suzuki, a fabulously influential Japanese author. If you’ve watched any of the jhorror movies from the 2000s and 2010s, you are likely familiar with his work.
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Claude Lemieux, four time Stanley Cup champion. Suicide.
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Marica Lucas, of ‘make Star Wars good’ fame.
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@Jennkryst The only decent idea George has ever had with Star Wars is retaining the merchandising rights.
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@Ominous This erasure of our Sith Lord and Savior, Darth Darth Binks.
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@Gashlycrumb I was just introduced to Persepolis in the last month.
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noooooooooo
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time to rewatch Repo! The Genetic Opera in his honor. -
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Gene Shalit. One of those people I’d just subconsciously presumed would never leave us.
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Historian Carlo Ginzburg.
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The Major Oak né the Cockpen Tree.
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