AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands. — Like New Orleans, this city has had periods of past glory — evident in its many well preserved buildings from centuries back. But it has also been subject to major floods and other calamities over the last 900 years. That Amsterdam has managed to overcome similar adversity enables it to provide a role model for New Read More ›
View the Press Release Senior Fellow George Gilder’s recent book, Silicon Eye, has been included in the longlist of the best in popular science writing for adults by the Royal Society. Silicon Eye is one of 13 selections comprising this year’s longlist, each of which will be considered for the prestigious Aventis Prizes, to be announced later this Spring.
Ma Bell’s back: Run for your lives! — or at least to the halls of Congress. That, it seems, is the overheated conventional wisdom. But the $170 billion combination of AT&T and BellSouth into the world’s largest telecom company is a perfectly natural progression of business and technology. The merger will rationalize a market beset by decades of political mismanagement. Read More ›
Seattle, WA — A new nationwide poll by Zogby International shows that 69 percent of Americans support public school teachers presenting both the evidence for Darwinian evolution, as well as the evidence against it. “This poll shows widespread support for the idea that when biology teachers teach Darwin’s theory of evolution they should present the scientific evidence that supports it as well Read More ›
Click here to download the free preview of The Privileged Planet Teacher Guide. SEATTLE, MAR. 7– The late astronomer Carl Sagan spoke for many when he said: “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.” The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery by Discovery Institute senior fellows Jay Richards and Guillermo Gonzalez challenged Read More ›
Judge John Jones’ 139-page opinion in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District raises questions that go far beyond the legalities of this specific case. I won’t offer an opinion on whether the judge’s decision is correct — although apparently he’s never met an objection to intelligent design he doesn’t like and some of his “findings” seem vastly more sweeping than Read More ›
The same year Merian Cooper’s epic King Kong was produced (1933) he issued a sequel, Son of Kong. Little Kong was smaller, kinder, gentler, and like his pop did not survive the end of the movie. Ma Bell, like the original Kong, was captured, exhibited for public amusement, and ultimately destroyed. The son escaped capture, but perished when his island Read More ›
This article, published by The Post and Courier, mentions Discovery Institute: So he turned to the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, for help. The institute quickly lined up Richard von Sternberg, a researcher with the Smithsonian Institution, and Rebecca Keller, a former University of Mexico chemistry professor. Fair paid for their travel with his personal campaign funds. The rest Read More ›