deaths
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Laptop Inventor Bill Moggridge Dies
Bill Moggridge, a British designer who created the very first clamshell-style laptop, has died at the age of 69. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum says that Moggridge, who was the museum’s director, lost his battle to cancer on the weekend.
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The Man Who Accidentally Invented The Pacemaker Has Died
Wilson Greatbatch has died at the age of 92. He was a lifelong inventor. And like many inventors, his most notable creation, the implantable cardiac pacemaker, was discovered accidentally.
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The 10 Stupidest Ways To Die In A Hurricane
Only 3500 Americans have died in hurricanes since the 1940s thanks to improved warning and evacuation systems. So if you end up one of them, you were either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or you were stupid. But you’re not alone! We found a bunch of really dumb ways people met their…
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Man Wakes From Coma In A Morgue Fridge
An old man dies. Such is life, my son. And for all our sadness, life surely must go on. Except when the old man didn’t actually die, and woke up inside the morgue a day later. Then it’s time for an explanation.