This article, published by the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, mentions a study done by Discovery Institute: A recent study by the Discovery Institute, commissioned by Wired Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Technology Council, concluded more than 50,000 jobs could be created statewide if telecom regulations are recast. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by BreakPoint, provides a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards’ book Money, Greed, and God: Addressing these questions is my friend Dr. Jay Richards of the Discovery Institute. Jay’s newest book is Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem. The rest of the article can be found here.
My, how time flies. It seems only yesterday that I issued my predictions for 2010. That turned out pretty well. But the prediction business is never done. Time marches on, after all, and eventually old predictions become about as interesting as yesterday’s newspaper. So, once again and with trepidation, I enter the Prognostication Zone to put my prophetic reputation on the line. Read More ›
The sweeping tax deal worked out by President Obama and (mainly, it appears) the Republican leaders in Congress is the first fruit of the 2010 GOP victories in the House and, to a lesser degree in the Senate. Without those victories, no deal. There is some question whether the Democrats led by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid are going to Read More ›
Two solid analysts, ex–Bush 43 speechwriter Marc Thiessen and Hudson Institute intelligence scholar Gabriel Schoenfeld, have published defenses of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) controversial new scanning and patdown policies. They argue that TSA’s policy is a necessary reaction to the evolution of terrorism. Their analysis rests on eight air-security myths. 1. The fact that there have been no attacks since 9/11 vindicates Read More ›
This article, published by NextGenWeb, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: NextGenWeb recently sat down with George Gilder, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Editor in Chief of the Gilder Technology Report, and contributing editor to Forbes magazine (for a complete bio, click here). The rest of the article can be found here.
Adaptive evolution can cause a species to gain, lose, or modify a function; therefore, it is of basic interest to determine whether any of these modes dominates the evolutionary process under particular circumstances. Because mutation occurs at the molecular level, it is necessary to examine the molecular changes produced by the underlying mutation in order to assess whether a given adaptation is best considered as a gain, loss, or modification of function. Although that was once impossible, the advance of molecular biology in the past half century has made it feasible. In this paper, I review molecular changes underlying some adaptations, with a particular emphasis on evolutionary experiments with microbes conducted over the past four decades. I show that by far the most common adaptive changes seen in those examples are due to the loss or modification of a pre-existing molecular function, and I discuss the possible reasons for the prominence of such mutations.
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