Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram that the renowned primatologist had passed away.
While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people, and also noted their distinct personalities.
Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
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What a legend. I remember she came and did a speech at my school about 15 or so years ago - just to a couple of classes, not a massive crowd - and she enraptured all of us young kids and stayed behind answering every curious question we had
Jane Goodall was a friend of my family She went out for a few years with my cousin Brian Herne who was a game warden. She lived just up the road from my place. She worked for the famous Dr. Louis Leaky who was curator at the Nairobi Museum. Lovely lady.LG
Jane Goodall, 91. Courtesy of "Stuff.co.nz"
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram that the renowned primatologist had passed away.
While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people, and also noted their distinct personalities.
Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Jane Goodall was a friend of my family She went out for a few years with my cousin Brian Herne who was a game warden. She lived just up the road from my place. She worked for the famous Dr. Louis Leaky who was curator at the Nairobi Museum. Lovely lady.LG
Jane Goodall, 91. Courtesy of "Stuff.co.nz"
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram that the renowned primatologist had passed away.
While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people, and also noted their distinct personalities.
Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
Wow Leggy, that is such a cool story. Did you ever get to have any conversations with her as such? That would be extremely interesting to learn of.
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As I mentioned she went out with my cousin. She was at our place a lot, and had lunch and dinner many times. I went to her flat a few times. She has a bat eared fox as a pet for a long time until two policemen stoned it to death outside our house.LG
Leggy
Jane Goodall was a friend of my family She went out for a few years with my cousin Brian Herne who was a game warden. She lived just up the road from my place. She worked for the famous Dr. Louis Leaky who was curator at the Nairobi Museum. Lovely lady.LG
Jane Goodall, 91. Courtesy of "Stuff.co.nz"
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
The Jane Goodall Institute said in post on Instagram that the renowned primatologist had passed away.
While living among chimpanzees in Africa decades ago, Goodall documented the animals using tools and doing other activities previously believed to be exclusive to people, and also noted their distinct personalities.
Her observations and subsequent magazine and documentary appearances in the 1960s transformed how the world perceived not only humans' closest living biological relatives but also the emotional and social complexity of all animals, while propelling her into the public consciousness.
Wow Leggy, that is such a cool story. Did you ever get to have any conversations with her as such? That would be extremely interesting to learn of.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, teacher and personality taken too young at 29. Just seemed the nicest guy and he’d retired from competitive chess, focusing on commentary and teaching.
He did some fun events like PogChamps and was also a streamer.
Rest in Peace, Danya.
He’d been suffering constant harassment and a stream of accusations from a nutty ex-World Champion and old man shouting at clouds Vladimir Kramnik, who hadn’t coped well with the emergence of online chess. And is just an old crank.
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, teacher and personality taken too young at 29. Just seemed the nicest guy and he’d retired from competitive chess, focusing on commentary and teaching.
He did some fun events like PogChamps and was also a streamer.
Rest in Peace, Danya.
He’d been suffering constant harassment and a stream of accusations from a nutty ex-World Champion and old man shouting at clouds Vladimir Kramnik, who hadn’t coped well with the emergence of online chess. And is just an old crank.
Cause of death?? 29 is far too young.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, teacher and personality taken too young at 29. Just seemed the nicest guy and he’d retired from competitive chess, focusing on commentary and teaching.
He did some fun events like PogChamps and was also a streamer.
Rest in Peace, Danya.
He’d been suffering constant harassment and a stream of accusations from a nutty ex-World Champion and old man shouting at clouds Vladimir Kramnik, who hadn’t coped well with the emergence of online chess. And is just an old crank.
Cause of death?? 29 is far too young.
Yeh. Just the absolute nicest guy. Like there are plenty of absolute pricks who are chess players and celebs right? (And people just cynically after money too in the borderline celebrity world) It’s an ego v ego sport.
The cause of death has been omitted from everything I’ve read, which usually has a particular meaning. I did hear he was found by a couple of his friends and colleagues at the chess centre in Charlotte where he worked…maybe lived nearby?
And you could see recently, like a light going out, how he was on streams or on friend’s podcasts.
He just seemed like the oldest head on a young body. The kind of guy who’d never be bothered by this crap.
Holy wow, did not expect to se Danya love here. Easily my favourite person in the chess world, and absolutely honourable man and simply the best teacher. Got me through COVID. I have his lessons downloaded on my phone and I always re-watch them them on long flights, and learn something new each time.
As martin said, the absolute nicest guy. Life took an absolute turn for a worse after an absolutely dinosaur made baseless acquisations against him. Some extra context, but Danya had spoken regularly that Kramnik was a hero of his growing up. After the acqusations, he spoke that he felt like he couldn't even play well off camera without "arising suspicions".
Martin - I'm not sure if you're aware (or even want to know - apologies if that's the case) but he was streaming the night before he died. It's a pretty tough watch and he had clearly turned to drugs or some sort.
Such a massive, heartbreaking contrast from how he was 12 months earlier. Now I'm on the uglier side of 30 as well, you sort of expect that everyone younger than you will be around forever.
I watched a Hikaru video where he was saying he was getting it tough from the English net and the Russian net too. And Russian is his first language, though you wouldn’t know it. As Hikaru said, or tried to say😄, he was easily one of the most erudite guys in chess too.
Had a bit of a moment when Hikaru was talking off the top of his dome about Danya’s knowledge of the history of the game and he dropped back into present tense unconsciously.
He treated Kramnik genuinely at first, and just the continued sewer trawl from him must have hurt so much. It’d be like Wynton Rufer constantly chipping someone for match fixing with zero evidence. But worse than that.
Couldn’t believe he was only 29. Didn’t look young and spoke with authority.
I…err…watched his commentary more than his lessons. Or occasional vids or pods . Tend to do a lot of v bad bullet in spare moments.
Happy birthday to you king, who turns 65 today.. If football is universal, so is Diego, because Maradona and football are synonymous. But at the same time, he was unequivocally Argentinian, which helps to explain the emotional power he has always had in our country, handing him impunity. Because he was a genius he stopped having limits imposed upon him from adolescence and because of where he was from, he grew up proud of his class. Such was his symbolic, sentimental power that with Maradona the poor defeated the rich and the unconditional support that came from below was proportional to the mistrust from above. The rich hate to lose. But in the end even his greatest enemies were forced to bow to him. They had no other choice. The image below is of Diego, a poor boy in a humble setting, controlling a ball with the concentration of a bureaucrat and the happiness of a child, mastering the toy of his life. First with his left foot, then with his head, he does not let it drop. The scene is like an amiable discussion, a gentle argument with a ball that still occasionally rebels against him, still resists but will soon join him. In the image, it is about to escape but Diego does not let it; instead he controls it, subjects it to his will, wins it over. He does not control it, he tames it. He is not much more than 10 years old, and there is a glimpse of the virtuoso already, but the ball and Diego are still getting to know each other.. I was lucky enough to have interviewed and spend some time with him and fellow Argentina team mate, Jorge Valdano, who told me a story, When Argentina were in Berlin waiting for a game one time when the brilliant Carlos Bilardo, the Argentina manager, insisted on the need to perfect their technique. As he was never a man to stop short of obsession, he kept repeating that an Argentinian player should live life with the ball permanently at his feet “morning, afternoon, evening and night”. He repeated it day after day, until one day Maradona came out of his room juggling the ball, took a lift juggling the ball, arrived in the dining room juggling the ball, sat down and, without letting it drop, began to nibble at the bread on the table. Bilardo came in, saw him and a smile stretched across his face, proud to be proven right. “See?” he said, “that’s why he’s Maradona.” Every time Valdano told that story it made me smile; today, it comes to me wrapped in sadness. At the 1986 World Cup, where he played as if in a state of grace, his genius reached its highest peak the day he defeated England. Diego’s football was built on beauty, creativity, pride and bravery and, that afternoon against England, upon a deep feeling for Argentina too, as well as on his talent and awareness. Diego scored a goal that was stratospheric and another in which he cheated. And that is the best example of a phrase that gets used so often and in moments less appropriate than this: he was above good and evil. As his legendary status grew, his human side – so flawed, so painfully angry and confrontational, so complicated – appeared to morph into an ever increasing grotesqueness.He was a perfect embodiment of the human ability to be contradictory, to do and convey ugly and beautiful at once, good and evil in the same stroke. His celebrity was not separate from his private self – he was achingly human in every way, yet a superstar at all times.
Often regarded as a prima donna for turning up late to training, he was extremely hard working. In his own terms. Legendary coach, César Menotti always said Maradona would stay at training longer than anyone else and practise what he felt he was weak at over and over until he mastered it.
As he said in his tribute game, “Football is the most beautiful sport in the world. If a person messes up, football doesn’t have to pay. I messed up, and I paid. But the ball... The ball does not stain." Thank you Diego.
RIP Gary Mani Mountfield, 63 Bassist for the Stone Roses and Primal Scream. Absolute legend at the forefront of the Madchester music movement in the late 80s early 90s.
Billy Bonds RIP A top footballer who should of been capped
Wow, I watched him play for the Hammers V Fulham in that FA Cup final and for a few years there after on TV. Good player. "B-O-N-Z-O, B-O-N-Z-O, B-O-N-Z-O and Bonzo was his name"
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Marvin Hinton, one of the Chelsea team that featured in the 70's, specifically in their infamous battles with then top dog Leeds. Who yesterday again beat the " World Club Champions " 3 -1 in a hellova match at a riotous Elland Rd. Yeeeessss!!!! NB my father was born in Leeds.
John Robertson 72. Scored against us in Spain '82. 'The footballing Picasso' - Brian Clough'. 'The little fat guy who turns defenders inside out' - BC. 'Whenever I felt off-colour I'd sit next to Robbo coz then I'd look like Errol Flynn' - BC.
I have his autobiography Supertramp. Such a good read. What a player. Provided the assist for Trevor Francis in the 79 European Cup final and then scored the winner in the 1980 final.
A much more complex character than I’d appreciated - “blonde bombshell”, animal rights activist before it was cool, and later in life the holder of what I’d call some pretty intolerant opinions.
"I have not had very much chance to act," she complained, "mostly I have had to undress."
A much more complex character than I’d appreciated - “blonde bombshell”, animal rights activist before it was cool, and later in life the holder of what I’d call some pretty intolerant opinions.
"I have not had very much chance to act," she complained, "mostly I have had to undress."
A much more complex character than I’d appreciated - “blonde bombshell”, animal rights activist before it was cool, and later in life the holder of what I’d call some pretty intolerant opinions.
"I have not had very much chance to act," she complained, "mostly I have had to undress."
I have his autobiography Supertramp. Such a good read. What a player. Provided the assist for Trevor Francis in the 79 European Cup final and then scored the winner in the 1980 final.
and despite that, still said that his greatest goal was the penalty he scored against England at Wembley in 1981 to give Scotland a 1-0 win. Legend! RIP Robbo
Sir Tim Shadbolt, Former Mayor in Invercargill & up in Auckland, former University activist. I wonder if instead of a headstone, they should cement a concrete mixer above him. Some of us remember him towing one around on the back of his Mayoral car up in Auckland. At the time it made a few headlines but that was just him, doing his own thing by his own rules.
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