Original Article Rossi or Gregoire? More than a month after the election, we still do not know who Washington’s next governor will be. But while Republicans and Democrats continue to battle over the final count, it is not premature to think about where the next governor will take the state. After all, January is rapidly approaching the business of Read More ›
Stanford neurology prof Robert Sapolsky squared off against CSC Director Stephen Meyer and CSC senior fellow John Campbell on the pages of Friday’s San Franscisco Chronicle. Sapolsky dodged the real scientific controversies and instead spewed stereotypes and politically motivated ad hominem attacks at intelligent design supporters. Contrast that with the serious issues raised by Meyer and Campbell, who delve into Read More ›
THE CITIZEN SCIENTIST (www.sas.org/tcs)(See web page for important graphs and a satellite image of the Bering Glacier.) Last year I attended a science conference in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I heard much about the problem of thawing tundra. I distinctly recall a drive along a formerly flat road that had dips caused by thawed permafrost. That road was on my mind Read More ›
The Grantsburg, Wis., school district has changed its controversial policy on the teaching of evolution to clarify that creationism and the theory of intelligent design will not be taught in class. School Board members approved the new version Monday evening on a 6-1 vote. Superintendent Joni Burgin said they rewrote the policy to make sure it was legally sound and Read More ›
DEC. 7, 2004 – After weeks of public debate, by a vote of 6-1 the school board of Grantsburg, Wisconsin adopted a revised policy on the teaching of evolution at a special meeting on December 6, which states that “Students shall be able to explain the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory,” The new policy makes clear that the Read More ›
The dollar has fallen about 35 percent against the euro over the last three years. What in practical terms does the fall mean, how important is it, and what should be done? Three years ago, the typical American worker had to work about 15 minutes to earn enough after taxes to buy a “Big Mac Meal” in either the U.S. Read More ›
The Privileged Planet Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, 444 pages, Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 2004; ISBN 0-89526-065-4; hardcover, $27.95. Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Privileged Planet gives a new spin to the argument that conditions on Earth are essentially unique. Authors Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards suggest Earth was designed for scientific discovery. They introduce Read More ›
Original Article On Feb. 24-25, Microsoft Corp. hosted a major conference on transportation and technology in Redmond. The first day focused on “breaking gridlock with technology,” and the second day on “dealing with a rising tide of freight.” Lead organizers of the event were Bruce Agnew of the Cascadia Center and John Niles of Global Telematics. In a debriefing on Read More ›
Original article Should California give its citizens a right to die? Earlier this month, Assembly members Patty Berg, D-Eureka, and Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys (Los Angeles County), introduced a bill that would allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults with less than six months to live to end their own lives legally. It is patterned after Oregon’s voter-approved law, which went Read More ›
Original Article Intelligent design, which holds that only an unspecified superior intellect can account for the complexity of life forms, is increasingly appearing in science forums and journals as an alternative to evolution theory. Evolution has been widely accepted in scientific circles ever since Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species revolutionised biological sciences 145 years ago. But the new theory’s support Read More ›