NEWS HEADLINES
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Nato welcomes Greenland deal as Trump says it will give US 'permanent security control'
Denmark and the US have reached an agreement after months of threats from Donald Trump to annex the territory. read more
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Houthis say they targeted Saudi capital with ballistic missiles
A reported strike on a fuel depot at Riyadh airport caused delays on Saturday, as conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Yemen-based group continues. read more
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Journalists denied White House access after Trump banned some media outlets
CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters' White House press badges were confiscated, the outlets reported. read more
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Converse pulls 'deeply upsetting' advert after backlash
Social media users say an image from the brand's Instagram account resembled a KKK hood and hanging. read more
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Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC. 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.
