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Terry Jo Duperrault, immediately before her rescue by the Captain Theo

The Bluebelle was a 60-foot (18 m) ketch that was the site of five brutal murders on November 12, 1961.

The ship was chartered by optometrist Dr. Arthur Duperrault (41 years of age) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, for a trip from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to the Bahamas, departing on November 8, 1961. Accompanying him were his wife Jean (38), and his three children, Brian (14), Terry Jo (11), and Renee (7). The ship was skippered by decorated World War II and Korean War pilot Julian Harvey (44), accompanied by his sixth wife, Mary Dene (34), whom he had married in July.

Late one night on the return voyage, Harvey allegedly killed his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Duperrault, and two of the children, Brian and Renee. Terry Jo was awakened by screams, and Harvey ordered her to stay below. He then scuttled the vessel and prepared to leave in a dinghy. Terry Jo was able to untie a 2' × 5’ (0.6 × 1.5 m) cork float and launch herself onto it just as the ship sank. She drifted for four days without food or water, and was near death when rescued in the Northwest Providence Channel by the Greek freighter Captain Theo. A picture taken of her by a crewman appeared on front pages around the world with stories of the “sea waif”.

Harvey had been picked up three days earlier in the dinghy along with the dead body of Renee. He told United States Coast Guard investigators that a squall had brought down the Bluebelle’s masts, holing the ship’s hull, rupturing the auxiliary gas tank, and starting a fire. He claimed he had found Renee floating in the water and tried unsuccessfully to revive her. (An autopsy showed that she had died of drowning.) However, after Harvey was informed of Terry Jo’s rescue, he checked into a motel under an assumed name and committed suicide with a razor blade.

It is believed Harvey planned to kill his wife to collect on her $20,000 double indemnity insurance policy, but he was observed by Dr. Duperrault, and then had to kill him and his family who may have witnessed his murder. It was later found that Harvey had survived a car accident that claimed another of his six wives and her mother, and that his yacht Torbatross and his powerboat Valiant had sunk under suspicious circumstances, yielding large insurance settlements.

Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, among others, wondered why Harvey did not kill Terry Jo. Gardner speculated that Harvey may have wanted to be caught and punished. Survival psychologist Richard Logan theorised that Harvey had intended to kill her, but when she accidentally dropped the rope connected to his dinghy, he was forced to dive overboard in order to prevent it floating away without him, and thus left her alive on the sinking ship. Many years later, she stated in a television interview with Matt Lauer, “I think he probably thought I would go down with the ship.”

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Burg Eltz | Germany (by Christian Paul Stobbe)

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Woes of being The Hulk

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Neuroscience Explores Why Humans Feel Empathy for Robots If, while watching WALL-E, your heart broke just a little bit when you saw the title character desperately travel across outer space in search of true love, it doesn’t mean you’re crazy. Sure, WALL-E is a robot. But its cute, anthropomorphized look and all too human desire to end its loneliness made us subconsciously forget that it is not human. The ability to forget that key point wasn’t just a matter of clever storytelling. New research shows that, at least in a small sample of people tested, the same neural patterns that occur when we feel empathy for a human onscreen are present in our brains when we see a robot onscreen… The results suggest that the reason we feel empathy for robots like WALL-E is that, when we see them treated a certain manner, it triggers the same sort of neural activity as seeing a human treated that way. In a sense, our mind interprets the robot to be human-like in a way that it doesn’t for, say, a rock. On the other hand, one possible explanation for why, despite this pattern, they still arouse less empathy than humans when being treated harshly is that we interpret them as something slightly less than human—something more like a pet. Of course, this explanation comes with an important caveat: correlation vs. causation. We don’t know for sure that these neurological patterns cause empathy, per se, just that they reliably occur at the same time. (Further, we can’t say for sure that this effect is unique to robots—stuffed animals and dolls might engender the same feelings of empathy.)… “One goal of current robotics research is to develop robotic companions that establish a long-term relationship with a human user, because robot companions can be useful and beneficial tools. They could assist elderly people in daily tasks and enable them to live longer autonomously in their homes, help disabled people in their environments, or keep patients engaged during the rehabilitation process,” Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten, the study’s lead author, said in a press statement. “A common problem is that a new technology is exciting at the beginning, but this effect wears off especially when it comes to tasks like boring and repetitive exercise in rehabilitation. The development and implementation of uniquely humanlike abilities in robots like theory of mind, emotion and empathy is considered to have the potential to solve this dilemma.” Source: smithsonianmag.com

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Do not allow yourself to be blinded by those that do not even allow themselves to see the beauty, enormity, and complexity of the universe from which we are made.

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Really what can we say about this? Beautiful!!!