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Mr.Chill
Aug 29, 2006

Wilkins Micawber posted:

Someone PLEASE tell me Acorn the Nature Nut is still alive, and hanging with Pappy Drewitt in the wilds of Alberta/Pappyland

Acorn the Nature Nut is a national treasure.
He now teaches at the University of Alberta and has aged amazingly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Acorn

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Pekinduck
May 10, 2008
Ehh gently caress it.

Pekinduck fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Feb 5, 2022

Bouillon Rube
Aug 6, 2009


nah

TK8325
Sep 22, 2014



drat, how is Ben Stiller taking it? They did a lot of movies together in the early 2000s. Guess we won't be getting zoolander 2.

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Nooner posted:

Science is for nerds lol

We are all composed of sciencey molecules, nerd.

Also :rip:

JnnyThndrs
May 29, 2001

HERE ARE THE FUCKING TOWELS

Genesplicer posted:

Both Mrs. Genesplicer and I were saddened by this news. We have read his works and went to one of his lectures. Great scientist. Made a lot of great contributions.

Fun fact: He once discovered a new species of ant when someone delivered a plant from a florist to him that contained a few of the new species in the root structure. He discovered a new species of ant while sitting at his desk admiring a plant someone sent him as a congratulations for discovering a new species of ant.

I only knew of him obliquely until recently when I watched a documentary about his life; I had no idea his New Synthesis book caused such a ruckus in the mid-seventies when it came out.

Ms. Thndrs is an anthropologist and has most of his books on the shelf, so I immediately dove into his autobiography, ‘Naturalist’ and was struck by the amount of single-minded effort he put into his future vocation by the time he was an undergrad, holy poo poo, this dude put serious work into his studies, including losing a loving eye while looking for specimens.

RIP, E.O. Wilson, from ants everywhere, he’ll soon be more familiar with the inner workings of ants than he expected.

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Powerful Katrinka
Oct 11, 2021

an admin fat fingered a permaban and all i got was this lousy av
I thought he lost vision in his eye as a kid in an accident

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