NEWS HEADLINES
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Ayatollah Khamenei's iron grip on power in Iran comes to an end
Iranian state TV confirms the supreme leader has been killed on the first day of massive US and Israeli air strikes on the country. read more
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What we know so far about the US-Israel attacks and Iran's retaliation
Iran responds by launching missiles and drones towards Israel and four Gulf Arab countries that host US military bases. read more
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At least 148 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says
Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the strike; the US is looking into reports of the incident, while the IDF says it is "not aware" of operations in the area. read more
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Luxury Dubai hotel hit as Iran launches retaliatory strikes across region
Smoke and flames rose from Dubai's Fairmont The Palm hotel as civilian targets came under fire along with the US military bases across the Middle East. read more
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Where have Nepal's 'nepo kids' gone as corruption takes centre stage in election?
The excess of politicians' children was front and centre of the anger that drove protests that toppled the government last year. 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.
