NEWS HEADLINES
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Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for global outage after almost 24 hours of disruption
Experts say the event is a "stark reminder" of how heavily the world relies on a small group of big tech providers. read more
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Why is Microsoft's outage lasting so long and will emails be lost?
Microsoft says it is continuing to restore services including Outlook and Teams following a global outage. read more
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Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook
A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot. read more
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Setback for SpaceX Starship rocket's double-catch test
Elon Musk’s company aborted an attempted catch of the rocket’s booster - instead it came down in the ocean. read more
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Rosenberg: Uncompromising Putin ups demands for peace with Ukraine
The fact the question of European security now features in discussions is viewed in Moscow as a victory, BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg says. 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.
