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The concept of who survives you is pretty intense. Untold cash is spent on insemination and other ways to create those to survive us. Millions of lines of text are devoted to finding mates in order to convince others to create offspring with us. In yesterday’s NYT, David Gonzalez, in the last line of the…

Very funny, well-writtenly wry passages in an obit written yeaterday by Margalit Fox: Samuel Alderson, Crash-Test Dummy Inventor, Dies at 90: In the 1930’s, with traffic fatalities becoming a growing public health concern, manufacturers began to explore the design of safer cars. But the new science of crash testing raised a seemingly intractable problem: to…

Here’s an item that touches on two of my passions: good obituaries and the propagation of the theory of evolution. Ernst Mayr, Pioneer in Tracing Geography’s Role in the Origin of Species, Dies at 100 He died as the courage to teach evolution is in doubt across the country. Ernst Mayr was a giant. Here’s…

My father passed away last Thursday. I am attending his services now, and I will give the full GoogObits treatment to his obituary, but I wanted to make sure I posted it immediately: Obituary: John J. O’Neil / Addictions counselor and PR man Monday, January 31, 2005By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette John J. “Jack” O’Neil,…

Carlos Cortez was the real deal. One of those men who made everything around him seem small. Not because he tried to make anyone feel small– the opposite is true. In the handful of times I’d ever talked to him at a poetry event, he was a living legend to me. All hail Carlos Cortez.…