Discovery’s youngest internfifteen-year-old Alex Binzis the 2005 winner of the Independent Institute’s Olive W. Garvey Fellowship. Competing against undergraduate and graduate students from unversities all over the world, Binz came out on top, taking home the first prize of $2500. Original Essay It is hard to imagine two people more different. M. Lamartine was a poet who supported socialism; M. Read More ›
“By the end of the 21st century,” writes Reason magazine science editor Ronald Bailey in his book “Liberation Biology,” “the typical American may attend a family reunion in which five generations are playing together. And great-great-great grandma, at 150 years old, will be as vital … as her 30-year-old great-great grandson with whom she’s playing touch football.” UCLA futurist Gregory Read More ›
Overflowing the Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, Calif. in late September into hotels in the nearby ski village, this was the Telecosm of the “Singularity.” A singularity designates a point in the future beyond which the “event horizon” darkens, as the horizons of the past darken beyond the reaches of the Big Bang. In between — we are Read More ›
Do you know why the retiring Federal Reserve chairman is praised so highly? He made fewer mistakes “pricing” the U.S. dollar than some of his recent predecessors. The “price” referred to is the short-term interest rate — the rate the Fed charges banks that borrow from the Fed. If you think for a moment, you might find it odd that Read More ›
This article, published by the Miami New Times, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez: Guillermo Gonzalez was a science whiz, the kind of kid classmates eye with awe — or scorn — as they fumble with their beakers in chemistry class. While a senior at Hialeah-Miami Lakes High, he interned at Cordis Laboratories, Read More ›
This article, published by The Minnesota Daily, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: Professor James Curtsinger, in his Oct. 11 column, ”Intelligent Design 101: Short on science, long on snake oil,” takes Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe to task for his concept of irreducible complexity. The rest of the article can be found here.
A legal battle is currently raging over whether it is constitutional to teach the theory of intelligent design (ID) in public school science classrooms. The controversy started when the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, required science teachers to read a 4-paragraph disclaimer that mentions intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinian evolutionary theory as an explanation for biological origins. Within Read More ›
The mergers of SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI will benefit everyone by creating cost savings from increased operational efficiencies. Although the telecom marketplace will never look the same, one thing that unfortunately hasn’t changed in telecom is a culture of reliance on regulation. Competitors like Cbeyond, Eshelon, Level 3, NuVox, Qwest, SAVVIS, TDS Metrocom and XO, argued that the sky will fall Read More ›
Original Article When professors go outside their subject areas, the results are usually not pretty. Take the case of philosophy professor Barbara Forrest, called on to challenge the scientific theory of intelligent design in fora academic and legal. Seventy thousand Australian scientists signed a letter saying that intelligent design is not a science, Dr. Forrest told an audience at a Read More ›