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Friday, December 16, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
We do have bigger brains than Neanderthals
Modern humans possess brain structures larger than their Neanderthal counterparts, suggesting we are distinguished from them by different mental capacities, scientists find.
We are currently the only extant human lineage, but Neanderthals, our closest-known evolutionary relatives, still walked the Earth as recently as maybe 24,000 years ago. Neanderthals were close enough to the modern human lineage to interbreed, calling into question how different they really were from us and whether they comprise a different species.
To find out more, researchers used CT scanners to map the interiors of five Neanderthal skulls as well as four fossil and 75 contemporary human skulls to determine the ?shapes of their brains in 3-D. Like modern humans, Neanderthals had larger brains than both our living ape relatives and other extinct human lineages.
The investigators discovered modern humans possess larger olfactory bulbs at the base of their brains. This area is linked primarily with smell, but also with other key mental functions such as memory and learning ? central olfactory brain circuitry is physically very close to structures related to memory.
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"We all know from our personal experience about the intense links between smell and memory ? for example, when, after years and as adults, we enter our old school building and by breathing and smelling the air of the stairways or of our old classroom, suddenly we are vividly and undecidedly transported back in our memory into our school days and associated experiences that we learned long ago," said researcher Markus Bastir, a paleoanthropologist at Spain's National Museum of Natural Sciences, in Madrid.
Intriguingly, smell may also play a social role, such as for recognizing family and friends and reinforcing group cohesion.
"In the German language ? I am Austrian-born ? we have a saying, 'Ich kann dich gut riechen,' which translates into English as, 'I can smell you well,' but means, 'I like you,'" Bastir told LiveScience. "That would reflect a linguistic example how smell relates to social behavior."
Compared with Neanderthals, modern humans also possess larger temporal lobes, an area near the base of the brain. "Neuroscientists relate temporal lobes with language functions, long-term memory, theory of mind (the ability to consider the perspective of others), and also emotions," Bastir said.
We also have a relatively wider orbitofrontal cortex than Neanderthals, a part of the brain immediately above the eyes. "The effects of the wider orbitofrontal cortex are difficult to evaluate," Bastir said. The area is linked with decision-making.
All in all, it remains unclear exactly how these brain differences might have set us apart from Neanderthals, Bastir cautioned. We only know how these skulls molded themselves around these brains, and not the precise structures of the brains in question.
In the future, Bastir and his colleagues would like to scan the interiors of more fossil skulls to refine their ideas about them. An implicit problem of the project is the fragility of the structures they would like to examine, he said.
The scientists detailed their findings online Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Holiday calendar: Streaking for home
Alan Boyle writes
2011 has been a fantastic year for imagery of Earth from the International Space Station, including glowing auroral displays, the final space shuttle descent and jaw-dropping night flyovers. Here's one of the latest pictures in the series, showing a fast-moving panorama of our planet's city lights at night ? plus one extra little streak of a spaceship.
The photograph was captured by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, current commander of the orbital outpost, who was watching the atmospheric re-entry of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that day. Aboard the Soyuz were NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russia's Sergei Volkov and Japan's Satoshi Furukawa. The trio was heading home for the holidays after spending nearly six months in orbit.
"Here's a shot of our crewmates ... blazing a trail to home," Burbank wrote last week when he posted the picture to his Twitpic page. "Their Soyuz is the small bright streak in the middle of the image."
Burbank and two Russian crewmates, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, are holding down the fort on the space station for the time being, but they're due to be joined by another threesome blasting off from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21. NASA's Don Pettit, Russia's Oleg Kononenko and the European Space Agency's Andre Kuipers should show up at the station's door on Dec. 23 ? just in time for Christmas Eve. What holiday goodies will they bring? Stay tuned ...
The shining Soyuz streak serves as today's treat from the Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar, which features views of Earth from outer space every day from now until Christmas. Check back on Wednesday for the next satellite view, and check out these links for previous entries as well as other space-themed Advent calendars:
Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
JVC GC-PX10
JVC is marketing its GC-PX10 ($899.95 list) as a hybrid camera?one designed to merge the functions of a camcorder with a digital still camera. In reality, it is more of a 1080p video camera that happens to take nice 12-megapixel stills. A dead giveaway is the inclusion of 32GB of internal flash memory, a feature that is almost never seen in digital cameras. The controls are laid out in a way that make more sense for video use, and can be a bit awkward to use for stills in anything but automatic mode. Its menu interface must be navigated via a touch-screen interface, which makes it very difficult to adjust settings with which photographers often fiddle.
Design and Features
The GC-PX10's design is rather unique among camcorders, as it is a departure from both handheld shoot-and-share and traditional palmcorder designs. It measures 2.7 by 5.2 by 4.8 inches and weighs 1 pound, 3.2 ounces. It dwarfs our very-compact Edtitors' Choice pocket camcorder, the Sony Bloggie Touch 8GB ($199.99, 4 stars), which is only 2.1 by 4.3 by 0.6 inches and weighs a mere 4.2 ounces?almost a full pound less than the JVC. Nor can you take it on extreme sporting adventures, as you can with the compact Kodak Playsport Zx5 ($179.95, 4 stars) and Contour+ ($499.99, 3 stars) helmet camera.
The camera that the GC-PX10 resembles most is the Sony NEX-5N ($699.99, 4.5 stars), which also has thin body, deep handgrip, and long lens. Unlike the NEX-5N, you won't able to change lenses. The JVC's fixed 10x Konica Minolta HD zoom lens is firmly, and permanently, attached. When shooting video the lens covers a 43-433mm f/2.8-4.5 (35mm equivalent) field of view, which is great for telephoto recording, but can be a bit limiting in when shooting in tight spaces. The field of view changes a bit when shooting stills, which are in 4:3 aspect ratio rather than 16:9. The camera covers a slightly wider 37-374mm range, which is still limiting when trying to snap group shots in average-sized rooms. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150 ($499.99, 3.5 stars) is a better option for wide-angle shooting, its lens covers a 25-600mm field of view and the camera is capable of capturing some very nice HD video footage.
The rear of the camera is dominated by a 3-inch, 230k-dot touch-screen LCD. It is hinged, but can only be tilted along one axis, in one direction. This makes it possible to tilt the screen so that you can use the camera at your waist or with the lens facing you, but you can't tilt it so that you can use the camera over your head. This is a bit limiting, as lifting the camera up to record footage can be quite helpful in crowded environments, such as concerts and sporting events. The LCD isn't as sharp as some, and is prone to glare in bright light. Its ability to tilt should help to alleviate that, but a dual-hinge system would be better for this purpose.
There are some physical controls on the camera, including a zoom rocker, video record button, and shutter release for stills. Additional controls on the left side of the lens include a mode dial, flash control, exposure adjustment toggle, and a control wheel. These will come in handy when shooting, but sadly will not allow you to navigate through menus. All menu adjustments are through touch only, which can slow down access to certain helpful settings, including focus assist, ISO adjustment, and white balance.
The GC-PX10 features an omnidrectional built-in stereo mic which captures clear audio from all directions. The sound of the lens zooming in and out is not audible on the audio track, but there is a cold shoe located on the top of the lens if you'd like to add a better microphone or other accessory, like a self-powered video light. ?Ports to plug in the mic and other cables are located under a flap on the left side of the lens. The camera sports a headphone jack, mini USB, and mini HDMI ports. There is no dedicated battery charger, instead you plug the camera into a wall outlet to charge and power it. If 32GB of built-in memory isn't enough to suit your needs, you can add storage via a standard memory card slot that supports SD, SDHC, and SDXC cards.
Performance, Video Quality, and Conclusions
The camera is a bit slow to start up, taking a full 4.7 seconds to turn on and take a photo. It does a bit better in terms of shutter lag, taking only 0.1 second between pressing the shutter and grabbing a shot. Its recycle time is also quite impressive. It can shoot a photo once every 0.3 second continuously, and also supports high-speed burst shooting. You can grab 100 shots in either 13.1 seconds or 3.3 seconds depending on the speed chosen, although there is a long recovery time?up to 28 seconds?after grabbing a large number of shots in a short amount of time. This puts it in the same class as the Panasonic FZ150, which is a bit speedier thanks to a 2-second startup, but matches the 0.1 second shutter lag. The FZ150 can shoot continuously with a 0.2 second delay between photos, and also supports capturing a burst of 12 images with a 0.1-second gap between each photo.
I used the Imatest software suite to measure the quality of the GC-PX10's photos in terms of sharpness and noise. The camera recorded 1,640 lines per picture height of sharpness, which is a bit shy of the 1,800-line mark that denotes a sharp image. It is in line with the results of the Panasonic FZ150, which grabbed 1,700 lines. In terms of image noise, the PX10 scored respectably, keeping noise under 1.5 percent through ISO 800. This will let you shoot in less-than-perfect light, especially when you have the lens at its widest focal length, a setting at which its lens is able to capture quite a bit of light thanks to its large f/2.8 aperture.
The strength of the camera is its video quality. It records 1080p60 footage at a 36 megabit per second sampling rate. The footage is crisp and detailed, and motion is smooth. Files are stored in MP4 format, which can be edited in popular applications. You'll be able to record up to 2 hours of footage onto the camera's internal memory at highest quality. You can increase that recording time by an hour by dropping the bitrate to 24 megabits per second, or to 5.6 hours by recording in 720p.
There's also a super-slow motion mode, which captures video at 300 frames per second and slows it down to 60 frames. For every five seconds of footage that you shoot, one second is recorded in the video. The resolution is limited to 640 by 380 in this mode, but the results can be quite stunning when shooting wildlife or sports.
If you're primarily interested in video, the GC-PX10 is not without faults, but overall it's a solid (albeit pricey) camcorder. Its 1080p footage looks great and is full of detail, and it records in the standard MP4 format for easy editing and sharing. It also captures nice stills, although experienced photographers will feel a bit hindered by the need to use its touch screen to change certain settings. If you're more interested in still photos, you may want to consider the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ150, which offers a wider zoom range and still captures very-good-quality HD video. If you're happy with a shorter zoom, consider the Sony NEX-5N, which records 1080p footage and ships with a lens that covers a 27-82mm field of view. It's $200 less, is a top performer, and offers more features including the versatility of interchangeable lenses.
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Romney, Gingrich proceed carefully in GOP showdown (AP)
MANCHESTER, N.H. ? The once-bursting 2012 Republican presidential field is narrowing to a two-man race, and GOP voters have one month before casting the first votes to winnow it to one. Barring a dramatic new turn, their chief options will be the steady but often bland demeanor of Mitt Romney and the idea-a-minute bombast of Newt Gingrich.
Herman Cain's suspension of his campaign Saturday, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry's continued struggles to regain traction, have focused the party's attention on Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Gingrich, the former House speaker. They offer striking contrasts in personality, government experience and campaign organization.
Romney has maintained a political infrastructure since his 2008 presidential bid, especially in New Hampshire. Gingrich, whose campaign nearly collapsed several months ago, is relying much more heavily on his televised debate performances and the good will he built up with conservatives as a congressional leader in the 1980s and 1990s.
Gingrich's efforts appear to be paying off in Iowa, which holds first in the nation caucuses January 3.
A Des Moines Register poll released late Saturday found Gingrich leading the GOP field with 25 percent support among likely caucus goers. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had 18 percent support and Romney, who began campaigning in Iowa in earnest only recently, had 16 percent.
Gingrich's and Romney's political philosophies and differences are a bit harder to tease out. Both men have changed their positions on issues such as climate change. And Gingrich, in particular, is known to veer into unusual territories, such as child labor practices.
Gingrich, Romney and the other Republican contenders except former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman sat for interviews at a Fox News campaign forum Saturday hosted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who sought the GOP nomination in 2008. Questioned by three Republican state attorneys general, the candidates described ways they would scale back federal programs.
Cain's announcement in Atlanta offered a possible opening for Romney or Gingrich to make a dramatic move in hopes of seizing momentum for the sprint to the Jan. 3 Iowa caucus. Neither man did. They appear willing to play things carefully and low-key for now.
At a town hall meeting in New York sponsored by tea party supporters, Gingrich declined to characterize the race as a direct contest between himself and Romney. Any of the remaining GOP contenders could stage a comeback before the Iowa caucuses, he said. "I'm not going to say that any of my friends can't suddenly surprise us," Gingrich said.
But once high-flying contenders such as Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota have not managed to bounce back so far, despite weeks of trying.
Gingrich was careful when asked why voters should choose him over Romney.
"I'll let you decide. I think we are very, very different in a wide variety of ways," Gingrich said.
Romney seemed as eager as Gingrich to avoid casting the contest as anywhere close to decided. He repeatedly turned aside reporters' invitations to light into Gingrich, offering only gentle critiques. As usual, he aimed much sharper remarks at President Barack Obama.
"I don't think people have really settled down, in a final way, to decide who they're going to support in the nomination process," Romney told reporters in Manchester, where he held a rally and knocked on a few doors. "I hope they give us a good, careful look."
That was about as much emotion and daring as he showed all day. With the second-tier candidates ramping up their criticisms of Gingrich, Romney stuck to his steady-as-she-goes campaign style of criticizing Obama's economic record, and saying little else.
Cain's once-prospering campaign was undone by allegations of sexual wrongdoing. Gingrich has been the most obvious beneficiary of Cain's precipitous slide. But Perry, Bachmann and possibly others are likely to make a play for Cain's anti-establishment tea party backing. Time is running short for them to establish themselves as the top alternative to Romney, who has long been viewed with suspicion by many conservatives.
Cain said he would offer an endorsement. His former rivals were quick to issue statements on Saturday praising his conservative ideals and grassroots appeal.
Romney seemed loath on Saturday to criticize Gingrich or to stir the political waters. Reporters asked why his background makes him more qualified than Gingrich. "Speaker Gingrich has been a legislator and has worked in government affairs, and he can describe his own background," Romney replied.
Why are his positions better than Gingrich's on issues such as immigration, Romney was asked. "We have very similar views on a whole host of issues," he said. "There are some places, I'm sure, where there are differences." The biggest difference, he said, is "our life experience."
Asked if he fears that Gingrich will draw more tea party support, Romney said tea party activists "want someone who comes from outside Washington," someone who has spent his life "in the private sector, who has learned the experiences of the American economy."
"Speaker Gingrich is a fine person," Romney said, "but he spent his life in Washington, the last 40 years. That doesn't exactly line up with the tea party."
He also said he differed with Gingrich on child labor laws. Gingrich recently suggested that children as young as nine should work as assistant school janitors, to earn money and learn work ethics.
Romney noted that Gingrich would end taxes on dividends and capital gains for everyone, whereas Romney would keep them in place for the wealthiest Americans.
Romney's generally mild reproofs contrast with the hits Gingrich is taking from rivals such as Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. Paul's campaign is airing a video accusing Gingrich of "serial hypocrisy." It shows Gingrich in a TV commercial with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talking about the dangers of climate change.
Gingrich has called the Pelosi spot a stupid mistake on his part.
Romney's campaign had hundreds of volunteers knocking on doors and making phone calls Saturday, pushing a slogan that presidential hopefuls must "earn it."
Romney has a vacation home in New Hampshire, where he is well known. His campaign structure there isn't perfect, however.
Aides sent reporters to 827 Chestnut Street in Manchester, where Romney would start some door-knocking of his own. But there was no one home at 827, or the next house he tried, or the three after that. In nearly an hour of door-knocking, Romney met only a handful of voters, and all of them already seemed in his corner.
Asked at the day's end why he was being so gentle with Gingrich, Romney replied: "I think the right course for me is to continue talking about my vision for the country, my experience, and how I'd lead the nation. And Speaker Gingrich will get the chance to do the same thing."
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Fouhy reported from New York.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Carrier IQ Is Misunderstood, Not Evil (Mashable)
Look out! Your phone knows what you?re doing. It has your contacts, email messages, SMS text, pictures and video. It gets worse. Your carrier -- AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon -- has to handle some of this information. You hit ?send? and then their networks pass along personal email messages to your contacts. Some of these messages also contain your photos and even, if bandwidth permits, video. Horrifying, I know. Now for the worst possible news: Carrier IQ is also, possibly, running on your phone. It was put there by the manufacturers and carriers to help improve network and handset performance, and it can see everything you?re doing. That?s right -- every action. It?s watching.
It doesn?t stop there. Your computer also has software on it that knows every keystroke, every email and photo. It?s called the operating system, and it basically runs everything. But who knows what it?s doing with all it knows. Sometimes, you can tell, especially when it tries to help you. Say you?re using universal search. How does that work, exactly? Well, it has to index everything on your hard drive and then maintain and update a database so you can find everything matching a keyword search. Some people install powerful system search software like Google Desktop, which can even index chats and instant messages.
[More from Mashable: Carrier IQ: We?re Not Wiretapping You]
Smart systems, in other words, know pretty much everything about us. And when our computer or phone can?t find what we need and acts, on occasion, like it doesn?t know everything -- like it can?t connect the dots between our data and, say, our social and business connections -- we get annoyed.
Now, what Carrier IQ is doing is, to be fair, deeper than just pure data. It?s watching, at least according to this research, all activity on the phone: Every keystroke and action. This must be a whole new level, right? What kind of software would look at system activity, user actions, which applications are running?
[More from Mashable: Carrier IQ and Your Phone: Everything You Need to Know]
Debugging software.
From the moment I read about Carrier IQ's explanation about what its software does and watched this video, I recognized it as pretty much run-of-the-mill debugging and diagnostic software. If you watch the video you'll notice that while it is in fact recording virtually all activity, it would be nearly impossible for anyone without a programming degree to decipher it. The hieroglyphics spit out by Carrier IQ actually reminded me of code I had seen before. Not on an Android device or even another mobile phone, but on a PC and from a pretty long time ago.
Back in the early days of Windows there was a diagnostic utility called Dr. Watson. On Windows 95 and 98, you could run it to collect system activity into a log file that, if you were savvy enough and had some of the right decoding tools, you could use to figure out what was triggering your system crashes. Yes, Windows users -- well most in my industry, at least -- were aware of Dr. Watson. However, on Windows NT, whether you were aware of it or not, Dr. Watson was running, watching and collecting errors -- and potentially more. There were posts online about how to disable Dr. Watson on the OS, but it wasn?t easy. You had to dive into Windows Registry.
No one was ever harmed by what Watson collected, and the reason most people wanted to disable it was that some thought the doctor was slowing down their PCs.
There is, of course, a big difference between good old Dr. Watson and Carrier IQ. Dr. Watson ran, primarily, on desk-bound computers (and early laptops). Carrier IQ runs in your pocket. You could lose your phone and whatever Carrier IQ has collected could be on there. A would-be thief then simply has to, well, unlock your phone, hope you don?t remotely brick it, find the Carrier IQ log file, and then figure out a way to read Carrier IQ-speak. On the other hand, if Carrier IQ were removed from all phones -- including yours -- and a thief found one of them, he could still access all recent emails, contacts, and texts, view videos and photos and do a whole lot more, as long someone left the phone unlocked. (Admit it, you don't always lock your phone).
My point? This situation is way overblown and spiraling out of control. However, when I asked the relatively tech savvy Google+ audience why people didn?t understand that complex systems are always running diagnostic software, they surprised me. Most sided with those who find the very existence of Carrier IQ on phone troubling. Many believe that Carrier IQ is collecting emails and SMS messages and passing them along to carriers (Carrier IQ says it's not). They were also concerned that there's no way to shut down the software or opt out.
The last point is somewhat laughable. Do a Ctrl Alt Delete on your Windows computer sometime and look at the process tab. There are dozens of processes running on your computer at any given time, most of them likely unidentifiable to you. Microsoft runs some, other software and utilities you?re running are responsible for the others. You didn?t explicitly ask for those processes to run, but they come as part of the system or software you?re using. You can shut any of them down, but at the risk of harming your computer.
For carriers and handset manufacturers, Carrier IQ is very much like one of those processes. I bet it never even occurred to them that they should inform consumers, let alone offer a way to disable the diagnostic tool.
Carrier IQ, though, is not blameless -- and I think this whole mess would have disappeared in a hurry if Carrier IQ had not dropped a Cease and Desist order on researcher Trevor Eckhart, who discovered the diagnostic software, wrote a post about it and then and documented Carrier IQ's abilities (virtually unstoppable, voracious tracking on an HTC Android phone) in video. That is, at least in some people?s eyes, the act of a company that has something to hide.
The reality is it?s an act of a company that?s not used to dealing with the public. Carrier IQ operates in the background and only deals directly with carriers and manufacturers. Now consumers are looking for ways to disable Carrier IQ on their phone, as if that will in some way improve their mobile experience or protect them from identity theft. This is misguided and in the end, could end up hurting more than it helps as Carrier IQ?s carrier and manufacturer customers suddenly find themselves with far less diagnostic information and fewer avenues for measuring service and network quality. If service quality degrades, consumers will finally be harmed -- but not by Carrier IQ.
This story originally published on Mashable here.
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'Laugh-In' comic actor Alan Sues dies at 85
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Alan Sues, who brought his flamboyant and over-the-top comic persona to the hit television show "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" in the 1960s and 1970s, has died, a close friend said Sunday night.
Sues died of cardiac arrest on Thursday at his home in West Hollywood, Michael Gregg Michaud, a friend since 1975, told The Associated Press.
"He was sitting in a recliner watching TV with his dachshund Doris who he loved in his lap," Michaud said.
Sues had various health problems in the last several years, but the death came as a shock to friends, Michaud said. He was 85.
A native Californian who moved to New York in 1952, Sues began his career as a serious actor and in 1953 appeared in director Elia Kazan's "Tea and Sympathy" on Broadway.
But he would be remembered for his wild comic characters.
They included "Big Al," an effeminate sportscaster, and "Uncle Al the Kiddies Pal," a hung-over children's show host, on "Laugh-In," the TV phenomenon that both reflected and mocked the era's counterculture and made stars of Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin and many others.
Sues also donned tights as the commercial spokesman for Peter Pan peanut butter, and appeared in the popular 1964 "Twilight Zone" episode "The Masks."
Fellow cast members and crew from "Laugh-In" remembered him as even more entertaining behind the scenes.
"Alan Sues was one of those guys even funnier in person than on camera," Ruth Buzzi, a co-star who appeared in many skits with Sues, said on her Twitter account. "Across a dinner table, over the phone ... hysterical. We'll miss him."
Executive producer George Schlatter, who would eventually bring Sues to "Laugh-In" after seeing him alongside future co-star Jo Anne Worley in the Off-Broadway comedy "The Mad Show," said Sues was "a free spirit," an "outrageous human being" and "a love child."
"He was a delight; he was an upper," Schlatter told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the death. "He walked on the stage and everybody just felt happy."
Sues would always be best known for "Laugh-In," which he left in 1972 before its final season.
But Michaud said the Peter Pan spots brought Sues nearly as much recognition in later years.
And he said the "Twilight Zone" episode brought him appearances at sci-fi and autograph conventions for decades.
"Fans of 'The Twilight Zone' are cuckoo," Michaud said.
Michaud said that while Sues was always cast as the stereotypically gay character, he believed he needed to hide his own gay identity during his years on television.
"He felt like he couldn't publicly come out," Michaud said. "He felt like people wouldn't accept him."
Sues was grateful for "Laugh-In," but wasn't happy he was typecast in his comic persona as he sought to return to more serious acting.
He got one chance that he cherished in 1975, the serious role of Moriarty with the Royal Shakespeare Company in "Sherlock Holmes" on Broadway.
He stayed with the show until it closed the following year, then went out to perform it with the touring company.
In later years he would make many more theater appearances, do voiceover work for television, and appear in guest spots on TV series like "Punky Brewster" and "Sabrina the Teenage Witch."
Sues is survived by a sister-in-law, two nieces and a nephew.
There were no immediate plans for a memorial.
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