This article, published by Fibresystems.org, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: And before that today, George Gilder will be giving a the closing keynote presentation at the 2008 Executive Forum, which is organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA) in conjunction with media house Pennwell. The rest of the article can be found here.
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 ›
Two decades ago, Sun Microsystems prophesied: “The network is the computer.” Today, BitTorrent video and 3D graphics flood the Internet, Apple iPhones tap the Net’s computing power, and PC-king Microsoft pursues Net-centric Yahoo. Sun’s mantra has become reality. But as the Internet booms and moves to the center of the global economic sphere, it draws proportional attention from politicians and Read More ›
Support for infanticide is becoming positively trendy. Where once support for killing babies born with birth defects was a fringe belief, it became respectable — even mainstream — after doctors from Groningen University Medical Center in the Netherlands admitted in 2004 that they euthanized dying and profoundly disabled babies under the terms of what has come to be called the Read More ›
It’s not often that I attend private screenings, so when I was invited to see the director’s cut of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring our own Ben Stein, I jumped at the chance. It was shown in downtown Washington, D.C. at the Goethe Institute. I didn’t even know that such a place existed, but then downtown Washington has been rebuilt Read More ›
Florida stands on the brink of adopting science standards that call evolution “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology.” While it is good that students will learn about evolution, these standards will make for bad science education because they elevate Darwin’s theory to a dogma that cannot be questioned. Unless citizens advocate for change, Florida’s standards will follow the dogmatism Read More ›
Florida presently stands on the brink of adopting science standards that call evolution “the fundamental concept underlying all of biology.” While it is good that students will learn about evolution, these standards will make for bad science education because they elevate Darwin’s theory to a dogma that cannot be questioned. Unless citizens advocate for change, Florida’s standards will follow the Read More ›
This article, published by Seattle PI, mentions Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: So how do we pay for this new transit system? Bruce Agnew, director of the Cascadia Center For Regional Development at the Discovery Institute, suggests considering a small increase in the motor vehicle excise tax. He also has called for regional transportation funding and control. The rest of Read More ›