so some of the songs that i've written tonight in the style of the gilbert i did to tickle steve gouldas totally mangled english on the other end of the spectrum. but i was asked we had a tribute to gould while he was alive, and i was asked by michael shermer of the skeptics to write a song for steve. he wanted it to summarize all of steve's essays in one gilbert and sullivan song. you may know that i was the editor of this column for some years, called natural history magazine. and i have been away from him for about 25 years. and when we met again and i said to them, i wrote him and i said, you've inherited huxley's medal for teaching evolution to a new generation. do you remember me? and he wrote back, blood may be thicker than water, but junior high school friendships are thicker than anything. so we met again, and that he was a big harvard professor with his great darwinian view of life. ♪ go stephen jay gould is my name. and fossil and show some again been a canadian shales and behaving steps that brought me a measure of fame by not have darwin is your cup of tea then a budget do

and now i will say back into the story of me and steve gould because steve gould was the continuationcipated in some of the recent trials, textbook trials and so on. now, when steve and i were kids we had a couple of interests besides evolution and animals and so on. one of them was we did a great interest in the use of language and we were both big solomon fans when we were kids and so some of the songs i have written to night in the sort of typicale gould, and then we had other heroes besides, for taxable there is steve and a giraffe. joe dimond shia was his hero because his excellence and grace on the ball field and he was a lifelong yankee fan who had an amazing command of baseball statistics almost as great as his knowledge of evolutionary biology and you throw it into an essay on biology every now and then. and our other big hero was schnozzola because he main gulf english on the other end of the spectrum. but i was asked. we had a tribute to gould while he was alive and i was asked why michael schirmer of the skeptics to write a song for steve and he wanted it to be a song i ha

i also want to acknowledge my co-authors, debra, ariela and david gould of the united hospital fund. steve set the stage very well for this. nearly every discussion of long-term care services and support starts with the statement that informal caregivers, families and friends, are the system's bedrock, i think i've said that a lot myself, but like bedrock, family caregivers and by the way, that's a term we prefer to informal, because inform am sounds so casual, so easy, so much fun, which it isn't. but bedrock is underground, bedrock is invisible, and when you start to see it, you get maybe a little nervous. i think that's what's happening in the policy world, we're starting to see these unde undergroundworkers, who are now start to go appear and make some demands. families have always played an important role in caring for people who are sick, or disability, or age willing, but in the past few decades, family caregivers' roles have changed. in addition to providing social support, and assistance with everyday living, many are now taking on demanding medical and managial tasks, and let me