by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 11, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Kirk Douglas, who died at 103 on February 5, 2020, was one of the 20th century’s most famous actors. He starred in more than 90 movies and earned three Academy Award nominations, received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 from President Jimmy Carter, and an...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 27, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Marie Antoinette and Sir Thomas More were both reported to have had their hair turn gray on the nights before their executions. However, hair is dead skin, so it can’t possibly change color. Grey hair means that you have a mixture of white and pigmented hairs. The...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 20, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
David Olney was a famous singer-songwriter who released more than 20 albums and wrote songs for Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Linda Ronstadt, Steve Young, Del McCoury, Laurie Lewis and many others. On January 19, 2020, this 71-year-old was performing his second show of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 13, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
John Havlicek was one of the most gifted athletes ever. At Bridgeport High School in Ohio he was All State in basketball, baseball and football, and then he went to Ohio State where he played basketball on an NCAA championship team. After college, he was drafted by...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 5, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Don Imus wore an old cowboy hat as the confrontational radio host of “Imus in the Morning,” who shouted tasteless, obscene, sexist, homophobic and even racist remarks about people in the news over more than 100 radio stations to become the “shock jock of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Getting credit for a great scientific discovery is sometimes just a matter of luck. You all know that penicillin can be made by fungi to kill bacteria, but most of you do not know the sad story that more than 120 years ago, antibiotics were first discovered by an...
