NEWS HEADLINES
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Carney calls Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse
Canada's prime minister said he was "reluctantly" announcing retaliatory tariffs as he accused the US of starting a trade war. read more
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Carney faces crucial test after walking away from Trump's deal
The Canadian prime minister will have to sell his gamble that walking away from talks with the White House will be worth the consequences. read more
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TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements
The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of users under the age of 13. read more
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Fourteen killed in strike on Myanmar monastery
A rescue worker said the site had been struck twice as civilians gathered for a meditation retreat. read more
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Rescuers dig through Ukraine mall wreckage as Zelensky condemns 'despicable' Russian strike
Four people are still missing after Friday's attack which killed 16 and left 130 injured, including a number of children. 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.
