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Russian strikes leave 600,000 without power in Ukraine, as Starlink restrictions affect front line
Critical energy infrastructure is hit, as Ukraine says speed restrictions of Elon Musk's Starlink are disrupting battlefield missions. read more
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Pope diagnosed with lung cancer but had successful surgery, Vatican says
Pope Leo had a "peaceful night" in the hospital after the surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican says. read more
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Germany puts Ukrainian on trial accused of blowing up Nord Stream pipelines
Four years after the attacks, Serhii K is in court accused of a plot to destroy Russia's gas pipelines to Germany. read more
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Saudi employee charged with planting recording device in OpenAI office
Prosecutors say the device, wrapped in toilet paper, was found inserted in a USB port on the back of a TV in an executive conference room. read more
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Turkish police raid opposition TV station, halting live broadcasts
Halk TV says its staff are unable to enter the building in Istanbul and a new manager has been appointed. 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.
