NEWS HEADLINES
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France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking
The cyber-attack last month saw fridges and freezers in hundreds of supermarkets across France heated up. read more
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Nvidia shares tumble over investigation into Huang's affair with alleged Chinese spy
The share price dropped wiped hundreds of billions of dollars from the value of Nvidia. read more
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Trump questions midterm elections integrity after previously accepting results
Trump made the claims, without evidence, on Truth Social on Monday. read more
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Turkey steel factory blast kills at least 16 people
Eyewitnesses say the explosion shook the ground, with one believing an earthquake had hit near the Habas Demir Celik plant in Aliaga. read more
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Republican congressman to force impeachment vote on Defence Secretary Hegseth
The effort will likely fail, but Representative Thomas Massie wants to push Trump to fire Hegseth before Democrats can launch their own impeachment process. 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.
