Word: gould
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Several students said Stephen J. Gould, professor of Geology, announced the incident yesterday during class...
...Gould declined official comment on the issue last night...
...Nadja Gould, a psychiatric social worker at UHS and one of the supervisors of Room 13, points out that although some students would rather go straight to UHS when they need help, others feel more comfortable talking to their peers...
...While Gould the awe-struck and eager little boy serves as the inquisitive force in these essays, Gould the professor steps in to provide scholarly, though never didactic, explanations. In fact, Gould is so careful to avoid sounding technical that he seems more a well-read humanist with a strong interest in evolutionary theory than a scientist who is well-educated in other fields. He refers in almost every essay to such non-scientists as Odysseus, Rabelais, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Alexander Pope, and even Muhammad Ali as bridges to lesser-known scientists like Richard Goldschmidt, Baron Georges Cuvier, Paul Broca...
Despite his literary and historical allusions. Gould never comes across as a pedant. Rather, he seems to be a well-rounded scientist with a genuine desire to communicate scientific ideas as effectively as he can--and he succeeds. If Gould had led that elementary school field trip, We'd probably all be studying paleontology today...