NEWS HEADLINES
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Bowen: US-Iran deal raises inescapable question of what the war was for
While the human cost is clear, the Iranian regime has not just survived the war, it has been empowered. read more
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Why Iran believes deal with US leaves it stronger than before
Iran has come out of the war's first chapter stronger than many expected, but its next challenge may be harder, the BBC Persian Service's Amir Azimi writes. read more
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Moscow residents complain of black rain after largest Ukrainian attack hits oil refinery
A refinery and a shopping centre burned after almost 200 Ukrainian drones struck an area to the south-east of the Russian capital. read more
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Thirty-five killed as gunmen attack Niger's biggest airport
Niger has been fighting a militant Islamist insurgency for a decade and in January suspected jihadists attacked the same airport. read more
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Parents of Serbia's teenage school shooter given jail terms in retrial
The boy was 13 when he killed eight girls, a boy and a school guard at Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade in 2023. 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.
