The Lippard Blog

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ CD8) was shot this morning at an event at a Tucson grocery store, along with several other people.  The Tucson...

The prominent skeptic Martin Gardner, mathematician, philosopher, magician, and writer, died today at the age of 95 (b. October 21, 1914, d....

This is part two of my summary of the Science-Based Medicine conference at TAM7, which will be followed by a summary of TAM7 itself. Part ...

The Arizona Republic has published this obituary : Chester William Anderson passed away at age 97 on August 19, 2008, following a brief il...

Shelby was a puppy from my sister's dog Sheba, a Queensland Heeler/Border Collie mix. We don't know who the father was, but Shelby ...

He actually did give at least one more lecture after this at another university, but this was his last lecture at CMU, given on September 18...

I was saddened to learn this morning of the death of Bill McCauley , who was my boss when he was Vice President of Operations for GlobalCent...

An interesting series of captioned photographs of people shortly before and shortly after their deaths (all of people who knew they were te...

Shawn Lonsdale, who began picketing the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida in 2006, was found dead in his home of an apparent suic...

Noted Scientologist critic and tireless picketer of Scientology's London Org, Dave Bird, died on Sunday, the same day as the largest Lon...

Unlike the examples in Alanis Morissette's misnamed song , this is both unfortunate and ironic: Roofing billionaire dies in fall through...

A Blackwater bodyguard shot and killed Hentish , the mascot dog of the New York Times that has lived its entire life in the U.S. Embassy co...

I wish I had seen this before my Channel 3 News interview about a similar painting coming to Phoenix . From Associated Press, September 19, ...

Eastern Michigan University sociology professor Marcello Truzzi was a co-founder and co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Invest...

Barry Beyerstein, professor of psychology and member of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, a Fell...

Until yesterday, I'd only attended funerals or memorial services for four people I've known; three of those have been in the last th...

It's not often that an event right in my neighborhood makes the front page of CNN's website , but it did today when a foul smell at ...

I received the unfortunate news this morning that Clark Adams has died, and that he took his own life. Clark was a long-time board member ...

On Sunday morning I received a phone call from my father informing me that my grandmother had died. By Monday morning, the funeral arrangem...

Remember this Dana Carvey bit on Saturday Night Live from 1996?