NEWS HEADLINES
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'I just want to be able to sleep': Attacks in Iran rock cities and cut power
Iranians in Tehran and Karaj tell the BBC they are exhausted and struggling to sleep after 10 days of Israeli and US attacks. read more
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Five Iranian footballers granted Australian visas after anthem protest
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Lebanon calls for talks with Israel on plan to end Hezbollah conflict
President Aoun outlines a path towards "permanent security and stability", as Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah continue. read more
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Family of child injured in Canada school shooting sues OpenAI
The family alleges the firm knew the perpetrator was planning a "mass casualty event" but failed to contact the authorities. read more
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Syrian ex-colonel in court on crimes against humanity charge
Salem Michel Al-Salem, accused of crimes committed in Syria in 2011 and 2012, has been named for the first time. 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.
