Presidential Lectures: Stephen Jay Gould: Introduction Perhaps more than any other contemporary American scientist Stephen jay Gould In one of these essays, his reprinted New Yorker review of The bell Curve http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/gould/
Extractions: Photo from: University of Michigan Windows to the Universe Perhaps more than any other contemporary American scientist Stephen Jay Gould has presented the modes, implications, benefits, and shortcomings of science to a literate public. As an inventive and productive scholar he has shaped and participated in crucial debates of the biological and geological sciences, particularly with regard to the theory of evolution, the interpretation of fossil evidence, and the meaning of diversity and change in biology. As the readership for his nearly twenty books and hundreds of essays, reviews, and articles has grown he has become one of the most popular and well-known writers and lecturers on scientific topics. He has distinguished himself by elaborating his critique of contemporary evolutionary theory via an eclectic range of discourse, deriving inspiration from his personal reflections across an astonishing array of historical and humanistic disciplines, popular culture, and sports. Gould's empirical field studies have concentrated on fossil mollusks and snails found in Bermuda. His first major monographic work, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), treated the theory of recapitulation in evolutionary biology. His second
Extractions: ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Beanballs and brush backs have become common when the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays meet. Jay Payton hit a grand slam and Manny Ramirez homered one pitch after nearly being plunked as the Red Sox avoided a three-game sweep with an ejection-filled 11-3 victory over the Devil Rays on Sunday. There were six ejections in the seventh inning following a sequence of inside pitches and two bench-clearing scuffles. Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella, and Devil Rays' pitchers Lance Carter and Dewon Brazelton were all thrown out, along with Boston manager Terry Francona, starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo and outfielder Trot Nixon Carter threw a high-and-tight pitch to Ramirez with one out in the seventh, one inning after Arroyo hit Aubrey Huff with a pitch. Huff, who is 7-for-10 against Arroyo, thought he was thrown at intentionally.
Stories, Listed By Author Dr. bells Monster, (ar) Playboy Aug 1975. KARPYSHYN, DREW (chron.) KARTH,jay (chron.) * Bad Case of Lead Colic, (ss) Western Short Stories May 1941 http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/s750.htm
Extractions: Previous Table-of-Contents KEIGHLEY, LARRY (chron.) KEIL, LIEUT. W. G. (chron.) KEILHOLZ, F. J. (chron.) Borer Moves On, (ss) Dec 1942 * Good Farming Good Living (with John Bird ), (ar) The Country Gentleman Apr 1947 More Power from Farm Feeds, (ar) Successful Farming Feb 1929 Rancher Riding a Drought, (ar) The Country Gentleman Nov 1953 Soybeans, (ar) The Country Gentleman Nov 1942 Tooled Up for Wartime Production, (ar) The Country Gentleman Aug 1942 Triumph in Turkeys, (ar)