NEWS HEADLINES
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Ukraine says military Starlink disrupted again as US envoys meet Putin in Moscow
Later on Thursday, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will travel to Dublin to meet Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. read more
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'We've got to run': Inside ruined Ukraine power plant under constant drone threat
Dan Johnson visits one of the country's largest power stations, barely left standing after a ballistic missile strike by Russia. read more
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Suspected bomb hoax threats force fresh evacuations of Italian schools
Schools across Italy have received bomb threats for the second day in a row, sparking fresh panic and evacuations. read more
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Democrat Scott Colom makes history as Mississippi's first black senator since 19th Century
In a state Trump won two years ago by 22 points, Colom's victory extends a string of Democratic wins in the Senate. read more
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Pentagon backs war memorial guard who reprimanded Hegseth's group
The defence secretary on Thursday awarded the soldier, Specialist Thomas Iglesias, a Joint Service Commendation Medal for the execution of his duties. 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.
