NEWS HEADLINES
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EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to terrorist list
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters. read more
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'I can breathe again' says Israeli hostage held for nearly 500 days in Gaza
In his first international interview, Sasha Troufanov tells the BBC how he thought he would die in captivity after he was taken hostage on 7 October 2023. read more
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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex
The proposed bill would enshrine in law the end of so-called "conjugal rights" – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. read more
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Chips, anyone? German farm gives away millions of potatoes after bumper harvest
Dubbed "the great potato rescue", it is part of a plan to save the spuds from going to waste. read more
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Israeli media cite official accepting Hamas figure of 70,000 war dead
Israel has previously cast doubt on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, which the UN considers reliable. read more
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.

