NEWS HEADLINES
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Suspect charged with attempted assassination of Trump at Washington dinner
Investigators say the 31-year-old California man wanted to kill as many high-level officials as possible. read more
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US political violence generates a familiar cycle - this time it's in overdrive
In modern America, it seems violence of this kind has become an ever-present storm that can strike anywhere and at any moment. read more
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Jimmy Kimmel rejects White House criticism over Melania widow joke
In a parody aired days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Kimmel called Melania an "expectant widow". read more
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Russian superyacht sails through Strait of Hormuz despite blockade
The 141m-long vessel, linked to a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, cleared the waterway despite an ongoing blockade. read more
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Man admits plotting attack on Taylor Swift concert in Vienna
The state prosecutor told the court that police found an almost completed bomb in a search of the man's house. read more
ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY
STEPHEN JAY GOLD
BIOGRAPHY
Stephen Jay Gould was born and raised in the community of Bayside, a neighborhood of the northeastern section of Queens in New York City. His father Leonard was a court stenographer, and his mother Eleanor was an artist whose parents were Jewish immigrants living and working in the city’s Garment District.[6] When Gould was five years old his father took him to the Hall of Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History, where he first encountered Tyrannosaurus rex. “I had no idea there were such things—I was awestruck,” Gould once recalled.[7] It was in that moment that he decided to become a paleontologist.
Raised in a secular Jewish home, Gould did not formally practice religion and preferred to be called an agnostic. Biologist Jerry Coyne, who had Gould on his thesis committee, described him as a “diehard atheist if there ever was one.
