Ranxerox Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 17 minutes ago, wcw43921 said: RIP Trina Robbins Doggone it--that wasn't supposed to happen. A long life, well lived is something to be celebrated. We should all lift a glass in toast and hope that we do half so well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 https://www.yahoo.com/sports/oj-simpson-dead-at-76-family-announces-144012008.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 Didn't realize he was that old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 45 minutes ago, Old Man said: Didn't realize he was that old. His 2000 yard season was 1973. The helicopter coverage of the Bronco chase...that was '94. And even the last time any of us heard anything...the memorabilia break-in that landed him in jail. Once the sensation over that faded, well...he wasn't newsworthy any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 (edited) Vietnamese Billionaire sentenced to death for fraud. S44 billion worth of fraud https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68778636 New artwork found in Pompeii https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68777741 Edited April 11 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 21 minutes ago, death tribble said: Vietnamese Billionaire sentenced to death for fraud. S44 billion worth of fraud Great, now do the rest of the billionaires. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 Online searches for "why do my eyes hurt" and visits to eye doctors spike after eclipse Panicked by eclipse, astrology influencer fatally stabs boyfriend, shoves children out of car on freeway Tom Cowan and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli dies aged 83 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 13 Report Share Posted April 13 10 hours ago, Old Man said: Panicked by eclipse, astrology influencer fatally stabs boyfriend, shoves children out of car on freeway So heartbreaking, so unnecessary. And that nine-year-old is going to have to figure out how to live with it all. Mental illness is real. I wish she'd been able to see she needed help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 13 Report Share Posted April 13 5 dead after stabbings in a mall in Sydney, Australia. Female police officer shot and killed attacker https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-australia-68805458 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 14 Report Share Posted April 14 Disclaimer: It is a point of pride with me that I have never, and will never, deliberately watched 1 minute of one episode of ANY of the made-for-TV romance shows. Unfortunately, I have had their ads inflicted on my long-suffering brain, or what's left of it. So...after an even MORE sappy than usual run, the Golden Bachelor ended with a wedding. And now, 3 months later, the marriage is over. The two people involved announced they intend to divorce. NYT story suggests it was family issues...not that the families objected, but that they both liked spending time with their families, and...those families don't live in the same place. OOPS! Another NYT story noted that the track record for the franchise is...umm...bad. In the 20 year run...44 separate groups...there were 34 proposals. There are 6 couples still married. Count me in the large group that just says "duh!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 Marriage for the sake of money and fame? Sounds like one step ahead of prostitution to me. YMMV, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 15 Report Share Posted April 15 (edited) Man who smuggled drugs in cheese jailed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0klndnq49lo Mini rope bridges built for dormice https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68788690 Edited April 15 by death tribble DentArthurDent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 "Looks like University of Illinois!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Sea reptile identified from amateur fossil find https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68831349 Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 https://variety.com/2024/music/news/dickey-betts-dead-allman-brothers-guitarist-1235975041/ DentArthurDent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 Sony Reportedly in Talks to Join a Bid to Buy Paramount Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 Hotel Made Famous by The Shining Catches Fire, Now 'Under Control' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 46 minutes ago, Cygnia said: Hotel Made Famous by The Shining Catches Fire, Now 'Under Control' I wonder, when the firemen came in to fight the fire, whether one of them chopped a hole in a door and said, "Here's Johnny!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 Renowned Conductor Sir Andrew Davis dies aged 80 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68869153 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 21 Report Share Posted April 21 Mr. Trash Wheel celebrates tenth birthday Ternaugh and Ranxerox 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile Quote Recently, a man visiting his parents’ newly renovated home recognized an eerily familiar white curve in their tile floor. To the man, a dentist, it looked just like a jawbone. He could even count the teeth—one, two, three, four, five, at least. They seemed much like the ones he stares at all day at work. The jawbone appeared at once very humanlike and very old, and the dentist took his suspicions to Reddit. Could it be that his parents’ floor tile contains a rare human fossil? Quite possibly. It’s “clearly hominin,” John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who also bloggedabout the discovery, told me in an email. (Hominin refers to a group including modern humans, archaic humans such as Neanderthals, and all of their ancestors.) It is too soon to say exactly how old the jawbone is or exactly which hominin it belonged to, but signs point to something—or someone—far older than modern humans. “We can see that it is thick and with large teeth,” Amélie Vialet, a paleoanthropologist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, wrote in an excited email to me about the jawbone. “That’s archaic!” An international team of researchers, including Vialet, is now in contact with the dentist to study the floor tile. (I’m not naming him for privacy reasons.) This thin slice of jawbone has a story to tell—about a life lived long ago, in a world very different from ours. It is in fragments of hominin bone like this one that we begin to understand our past as humans. How could a hominin bone have ended up in someone’s tiled floor in the first place? Travertine, the type of rock from which this tile was cut, is a popular building material used perhaps most famously by ancient Romans to construct the Colosseum. Today, a good deal of the world’s travertine—including the floor tile with the jawbone, according to the dentist—is quarried in Turkey, from a region where the stone famously forms natural thermal pools that cascade like jewels down the hillside. Travertine tends to be found near hot springs; when mineral-rich water gurgles to the surface, it leaves a thin shell over everything that it touches. In time, the layers accrue into thick, opaque travertine rock. If in the middle of this process a leaf falls in or an animal dies nearby, it too will become entombed in the rock. “Fossils are relatively common in travertine,” says Andrew Leier, a geologist at the University of South Carolina. Hominin fossils, specifically, are rare, but at least one has been found in Turkish travertine before. In 2002, a Turkish geologist named M. Cihat Alçiçek discovered a slice of human-looking skull sitting on a shelf in a tile factory. He brought the 35-millimeter-thick fragment to John Kappelman, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and later also to Vialet in Paris. The skull turned out to belong to Homo erectus, an archaic human species that walked the Earth more than 1 million years ago, long before modern humans. Vialet thinks the newly discovered jawbone could be just as old. Vialet and her collaborators are now hoping to extract the tile, ideally intact, from the hallway where it’s been cemented in place. (The dentist is soliciting suggestions on Reddit for how to do so without also destroying his parents’ floor.) Then, chemical signatures in the rock can be used to date the fossil. Vialet also hopes to generate a 3-D model of the jawbone with micro-CT scanning, tracing the curve of the mandible and the roots of the teeth to find anatomical clues about its origin. DShomshak, L. Marcus and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted Wednesday at 09:08 AM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 09:08 AM Historical coins found under floor in Britain sell for £60,000. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68885685 Why does the sky over Athens look orange ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68887377 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted Wednesday at 02:09 PM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 02:09 PM Not sure how I feel about this yet.... https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/clue-film-tv-adaptations-hasbro-sony-1235979732/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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