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RIP Dr. Beyerstein. :(
Awww, man! How did I not hear about this until now? For those two don't know, about 2 weeks ago Prof. Barry Beyerstein, a bio-psychology professor here was found at his office desk, dead of an apparent heart-attack.
Man, that's terrible. The first time I saw him was on P&T's Bullshit, and when I saw he was teaching a class, I had to take it. He wasn't the most engaging lecturer, but he was a SUPER nice guy. I was writing an article, once, and went to him for a quote. We just sat and gabbed for an hour. Very approachable, always eager to help out his students, or any passer by. I was always impressed by his comittment to science, as well. He was president of a few local skeptic's societies, and a senior member of Csi-Cop, an international skeptic's group.
He also had an interesting that side that you might not expect from his soft-spoken demeanor. I needed a way to describe who he was, for my quote attribution, and ended up finding out that he was a pacticed magician (in the vein of anti-magical-magicians like James Randi,) and was a staunch opponent of the evils done in the name of the War on Drugs, even back before it was cool to be against those things.
He'll be missed. :(
Man, that's terrible. The first time I saw him was on P&T's Bullshit, and when I saw he was teaching a class, I had to take it. He wasn't the most engaging lecturer, but he was a SUPER nice guy. I was writing an article, once, and went to him for a quote. We just sat and gabbed for an hour. Very approachable, always eager to help out his students, or any passer by. I was always impressed by his comittment to science, as well. He was president of a few local skeptic's societies, and a senior member of Csi-Cop, an international skeptic's group.
He also had an interesting that side that you might not expect from his soft-spoken demeanor. I needed a way to describe who he was, for my quote attribution, and ended up finding out that he was a pacticed magician (in the vein of anti-magical-magicians like James Randi,) and was a staunch opponent of the evils done in the name of the War on Drugs, even back before it was cool to be against those things.
He'll be missed. :(
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