(CBS/AP) Last Updated 1:25 p.m. ET BOSTON – Geraldine Ferraro, the former New York Representative who became the first woman to run on a major party’s presidential ticket, has died. She was 75. Ferraro suffered complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that she had battled for twelve years. She passed away just before 10 a.m. Saturday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital, surrounded by her family, said Amanda Fuchs Miller, a friend acting as a spokeswoman for the family. Ferraro was the first woman to run for U.S. vice president on a major party ticket, when the obscure New York City congresswoman was catapulted to national prominence at the 1984…

  A piece of the preserved Heslington brain after it was removed from the skull in which it was found. CREDIT: York Archaeological Trust  A 2,500-year-old human skull uncovered in England was less of a surprise than what was in it: the brain. The discovery of the yellowish, crinkly, shrunken brain prompted questions about how such a fragile organ could have survived so long and how frequently this strange type of preservation occurs. Except for the brain, all of the skull’s soft tissue was gone when the skull was pulled from a muddy Iron Age pit where the University of York was planning to expand its Heslington East campus. [Britain’s…