Atlanta Falcons football star Michael Vick has agreed to plead guilty to participating in a dog fighting/gambling ring, almost certainly ending his career. Vick’s indictment was the scandal of the summer — and for good reason: In a throwback to the brutality of the Roman crowd, Vick and his co-conspirators allegedly bred pit bulls to tear one another apart for Read More ›
This article, published by Premise Media, mentions Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellows Richard Sternberg and Guillermo Gonzalez: For example, Stein meets Richard Sternberg, a double PhD biologist … On his journey, Stein meets other scientists such as astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez, who was denied tenure at Iowa State University in spite of his extraordinary record of achievement. Read More ›
This article, published by National Review, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer: David Klinghoffer is worried about the atmosphere of secularism that rains down like nuclear fallout, spreading contamination and offers the Ten Commandments as a desperately needed diagnostic tool to combat it. The rest of the article can be found here.
Atlanta Falcons football star Michael Vick pleaded guilty to participating in a dog fighting/gambling ring, almost certainly ending his NFL career. Vick’s indictment was the scandal of the summer – and for good reason: In a throwback to the brutality of the Roman arena, in which wild animals were forced to fight and kill each other to the frenzy of Read More ›
This article, published by The Philadelphia Inquirer, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Michael Behe: In 1996, Pennsylvania’s own Michael J. Behe launched a frontal attack upon Darwinian evolution with the publication of Darwin’s Black Box. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by the Dallas Morning News, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer and his book Shattered Tablets: Another dangerous book this summer, this one for grown-ups, is David Klinghoffer’s marvelously lucid Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore The Ten Commandments at Our Peril. The rest of the article can be found here.
This article, published by The Seattle Times, mentions the Cascadia Center of Discovery Institute: The always-creative Cascadia Center in Seattle has leaped on the aging problems of Interstate 5 by proposing an entirely different approach to both the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement and a reconfigured I-5. The rest of the article can be found here.
THE AUTHORS and I are puzzled by Sally Lehrman’s characterization of the Discovery Institute’s biology textbook “Explore Evolution” as “pseudoscience” in her Aug. 9 op-ed “Understanding evolution is crucial to debate.” After all, we describe the main evolutionary mechanism much as Lehrman herself does as “natural selection acting on random mutations.” We also explain evidence and arguments for the creative Read More ›
This article, published by The Cato Institute, quotes Bret Swanson of Discovery Institute: In addition, they want to avoid having to use only expanded physical infrastructure to meet what Bret Swanson in the Wall Street Journal recently called the “coming exaflood” of bandwidth-intensive applications, including video sharing, medical imaging, and digital surveillance. The rest of the article can be found here.
News that federal DOT officials have accepted the offer by Puget Sound transportation leaders to toll a new State Route 520 bridge by September of 2009 in exchange for $139 million in new bridge-rebuild cash from the feds will accelerate a much needed debate about the eventual need for system-wide tolling here. This dialog is coming despite two state gas Read More ›