NEWS HEADLINES
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Spies, drones and blowtorches: How the US captured Maduro
An extraordinary mission dubbed "Operation Absolute Resolve" saw elite troops breach the Venezuelan president's fortified compound. read more
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'A long road ahead': Venezuelans react to Maduro's arrest with hope and worry
Caracas residents worry about what comes after US intervention in their country amid a tense political climate. read more
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Trump's toppling of Maduro is fraught with risk - what happens next is unclear
Will the US push for elections or will it try to depose more members of the government, asks the BBC's Ione Wells. read more
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What we know about Maduro's capture and US plan to 'run' Venezuela
Donald Trump said the US would "run" Venezuela until a "safe" transition after his forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. read more
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Swiss open criminal case against managers of ski resort bar after deadly fire
It comes after a preliminary investigation found the likely cause was sparklers on champagne bottles being carried too close to the ceiling. 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.
