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Bryan Leonard

Bryan Leonard was a graduate student at Ohio State University whose dissertation defense was derailed by intolerant Darwinists who disagreed with his skeptical views of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

Who Killed Bear Stearns? By Andy Kessler

Though The Wall Street Journal has run minute-by-minute accounts of the demise of Bear Stearns, nowhere in any of those accounts has anyone they really spelled out who killed Bear Stearns. Andy Kessler has put together a list of some of the suspects. Read More ›

Life After Television: The cult of the amateur

In the panel discussion Joe Weinman (VP, Strategy & Emerging Services, AT&T) presents his critique of Metcalfe’s law and the panel discusses it.

A Democrat Looks at His Party…and the State of American Politics – Ted Van Dyk

One of the Northwest’s most intriguing sages on national politics is Ted Van Dyk, longtime Democratic strategist and writer who over his career has been an aide to such prominent figures as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senator George McGovern and philanthropist/financier Michael Milken. His new book, “Heroes, Hacks, and Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside” (University of Washington Press), is Read More ›

Intelligent Design: Who Designed the Designer?

http://discovery.org Dr. Jay Richards discusses whether or not intelligent design theory can say who the designer is. Dr. Richards is a senior fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and also Director of Media at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Gorton Summer Series 2007

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce our third annual summer lecture series for interns and young professionals. The ‘Gorton Summer Lecture Series’ named for our distinguished board member and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton, introduces young people to the nature and ideals of public service. Read More ›

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Adoption Principles

On both sides of the Atlantic, the argument is being made that the only way to find enough families for children in need of homes is to allow cohabiting persons who are unmarried — whether heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered — to adopt. At first, the heightened attention by the media on gay and lesbian adoption was spurred in Read More ›

Internet Law Task Force Organizing to Achieve Consensus on Internet Legal Issues

OCTOBER 31, 1995 — Seattle,WA — The first international conference on the law of the Internet served as the platform for the announcement of an effort to establish the Internet Law Task Force (ILTF) to facilitate the progressive development of law and public policy in the global information age. The ILTF will provide an international forum for issues related to the use and growth of the Internet including: evolution of the business practices and legal instruments to assure the validity and acceptance of digital transactions; property rights; privacy; and the elimination of legal barriers to Internet commerce and electronic transactions. “We need to accelerate at the global level the development of solutions borne of consensus,” stated Peter Harter, former executive director and general Read More ›