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Gilder, in Israel, Sees Still More Tech Inventions Coming

Israeli prowess in technology is the subject that started George Gilder on the path to writing The Israel Test, and it is the subject also that Gilder will emphasize in the upcoming Gilder/Forbes Telecosm 20009 conference in Tarrytown, New York November 10-12. In Israel last week to promote his book and to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilder talked to many old Read More ›

Evolution: The Untold Story

Dr. Michael Behe, Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University and CSC Senior Fellow, will be speaking at “Evolution: The Untold Story” in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Why Random Mutation and Natural Selection Are Not Capable of Building the Complex, Coherent Molecular Machinery Recently Discovered in the Cell 9:00 a.m.October 24, 2009Villanova Conference CenterRadnor, Pennsylvania For registration and information click here.

Darwin’s Defenders Deny Life’s Evident Design

Following on the heels of his last bestseller, The God Delusion, Darwinian biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has scored another publishing triumph. The No. 5 bestseller in the country, according to the New York Times, is Dawkins’s The Great Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. You might think his success would give him the courage to face critics of Read More ›

Electric Car Industry Pulls In For Quick Charge At Microsoft

This is the transcript of an interview about Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center Beyond Oil Conference: Co-anchor Dennis Bounds: “The electric car industry pulled in for a quick charge at Microsoft’s Redmond campus today.” Co-anchor Jean Enerson: “And as KING 5’s environmental specialist Gary Chittim shows us, some of the nation’s biggest companies are ready to plug in to this technology.” Read More ›

Israel & Innovation

George Gilder speaks of the per capita and overall success that Israel has had. These are the innovations that cultures depend on and by which prosperity relies on.

The Lesson of History

George Gilder discusses the Lesson of History. The Lesson of History: technology comes from relatively few people. The Jewish diaspora, Gilder claims, was the key source for these developments.

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Seattle SR99 Tunnel
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Facts About Seattle’s Tunnel Choice

At the beginning of 2009, Seattle, King County and the State of Washington made the joint decision to replace the aging, earthquake-prone Alaskan Way Viaduct with a technologically advanced deep-bored tunnel. Read More ›

Federal Grants Spur Adoption of New Transportation Technologies in Northwest

SEATTLE, Oct. 22 – When it comes to moving America’s transportation system away from oil, here in the Northwest you’ll find the dawn of a new age. That new age, which brings together proponents of reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil in transportation, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and helping the economy, will be the focus of the Cascadia Center of Read More ›

Seattle Getting 2,500 Electric Car Charging Stations

This article, published by Seattle PI, discusses a conference put on by the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: So it was with great enthusiasm on Oct. 23 that 300 people attended a conference hosted by the Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center entitled: “Beyond Oil: The Sustainable Communities Initiative and Clean Cities Conference.” The rest of the article can be found here.