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^{Jonathan Choe
May 13, 2024
Homelessness}

Billy Baldwin Witnesses Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

_{Jonathan Choe
May 13, 2024
Homelessness}

Discovery Institute is going Hollywood! Our Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut teamed up with film producer Robert Craig and actor Billy Baldwin to make "Americans With No Address," one of the most important documentaries highlighting the nation's homeless crisis. We Heart Seattle's Andrea Suarez is also a key voice in the movie. Some of the cast members recently took a tour of Seattle. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›

^{Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 13, 2024}

The Real Heroes of the Big Bang Revolution

_{Jean-Pierre Luminet
May 13, 2024}

The discovery that the universe had a beginning was one of the most remarkable achievements of 20th century science, sparking a cosmological paradigm shift and a radical new way to understand our world. But the three scientists most responsible for the big bang revolution are largely unknown to the public and underestimated by other scientists in their field. On this ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a conversation with esteemed cosmologist Jean-Pierre Luminet, who sets the record straight on the real heroes of the Big Bang Theory with his new book The Big Bang Revolutionaries, available now from Discovery Institute Press. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 next! Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 13, 2024
Education}

Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Reduce the Work Week to 32 Hours Will Lead to Nowhere

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 13, 2024
Education}

Self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act” recently that would mandate the standard workweek be reduced from 40 to 32 hours. Under the law, employees would not receive a reduction in pay despite the 20% drop in labor. Read More ›

^{William A. Dembski
May 13, 2024}

Toward an Information-First View of Reality

_{William A. Dembski
May 13, 2024}

On a classic episode of ID the Future from the vault, host Dr. John West continues his conversation with Dr. Bill Dembski as they discuss Dr. Dembski's 2014 book Being as Communion: A Metaphysics of Information. Listen in as Dr. Dembski explains 3 central points at the heart of his book: the Tang problem, the problem of no, and transposition. Tang?! What does a breakfast drink have to do with information theory? Tune in to find out! Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
May 11, 2024
Discovery Institute}

The Wrongs of Spring

_{Marvin Olasky
May 11, 2024
Discovery Institute}

Two decades ago John Judis and Ruy Teixeira prophesied big changes in their book The Emerging Democratic Majority. Their new book asks, Where Have All the Democrats Gone? (Henry Holt, 2023). Essentially, college-educated professionals (some with unorthodox lifestyles) have now pushed out “many of the people in the deindustrialized towns and small cities of middle America [and left them] stripped Read More ›

A pioneer family on the frontier, amidst a vast prairie, setting up their homestead, gazes towards a hopeful horizon.

^{Marvin Olasky
May 10, 2024
Homelessness}

Go West, Young Man (and Woman) | Fix Homelessness

_{Marvin Olasky
May 10, 2024
Homelessness}

We often think westward migration was for males only. In 1862 the Homestead Act allowed land claims from “any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years.” Women, including those widowed by the Civil War, made one third of all homestead claims. Some men and women who made it to the Midwest and went no further became homeless. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
May 10, 2024
Economics}

Strawberries In The U.S. Grew 2,755 Percent More Abundant Since 1960

_{Gale Pooley
May 10, 2024
Economics}

Researchers at UC Davis have documented the tremendous growth in yields for strawberries in California. Genetic gains from breeding and production advances increased yields by 2,755 percent from the early 1960s. The strawberry joins wheat, rice, and other staple crops of the Green Revolution. Read More ›

Close-up of a petri dish in a lab setting containing a developing piece of lab-grown meat with a microscope in the background highlighting the cellular structure and the process of culturing meat

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

DeSantis Wrong to Criminalize Lab-Grown Meat

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 10, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that makes the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat (made from meat cells) in Florida a misdemeanor. I agree with DeSantis that our would-be woke overlords want to destroy animal agriculture internationally. But freedom is the solution to those threats, not neo-Luddism. Read More ›

A Graduation Cap Rests on a Secluded Street, Symbolizing Academic Achievement

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 10, 2024
Education}

Protests Will Cost Universities in the Long Term

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 10, 2024
Education}

The campuses of many of America’s once distinguished institutions of higher education have been dominating the news in the past few weeks as pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and antisemitic protesters scream, chant, incite violence, refuse to vacate their tent cities, and make demands of school administrations. This damaging higher education exposure comes on the heels of the K-12 education “great parent awakening." Read More ›