Content, some say, is king. Well, I am discontent. At the moment, struggling with RealPlayer and RealOne, I conclude that streaming video does not work. What passes for broadband in the United States — 200 to 800 kilobits per second — simply cannot handle video. The paucity of video education and entertainment on the Net thwarts the “life after television” Read More ›
Robert Cihak, a longtime member of Discovery’s board of directors, will appear on the CNN Financial (CNNfn) program “Market Call” on September 4. Cihak is a former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He wrote a joint column with fellow physician Michael Glueck for Scripps Howard on the dangers of drug reimportation, which is the subject of Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Unlocking The Mystery of Life” will air August 31 at 6pm on KRMA, KTSC and KRMJ DENVER, August 27, 2003 — “Unlocking the Mystery of Life”, a 58-minute program exploring what DNA and the inner workings of the cell reveal about the origin of life, will air on KRMA in Denver, KTSC in Colorado Springs Pueblo, and KRMJ Read More ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:Bruce ChapmanDiscovery InstitutePhone: 206.292.0401 x101, E-mail: bchapman@discovery.org Amy LowGMMB (for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)Phone: 206.352.8598, E-mail: amy.low@gmmb.com Discovery Institute to expand efforts to create regional transportation solutions through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationMore than $9 million pledged over 10 years to Cascadia Project SEATTLE — The Discovery Institute today announced a Read More ›
AUSTIN, TX — Discovery Institute leaders today said they will sign the Texas Freedom Network’s “Stand up for science” petition which states, “I support sound science and the teaching of evolution.” “We’ve been standing up for sound science for a long time,” said Institute President Bruce Chapman. “We’ve been calling for biology textbooks to stand up and expand their teaching of Read More ›
AUSTIN, TX – The Texas Freedom Network this week is launching an attack on science education in Texas, seeking to restrict the flow of information to students. TFN is asking for people to sign their petition supposedly to protect science textbooks from censorship, and claiming that there are efforts to insert creationism in textbooks, which is completely false. The truth Read More ›
Click here to open a PDF of the letter Two dozen professors from seven Texas universities have signed an open letter to the State Board of Education (see below) urging it to ensure that biology textbooks present both the scientific strengths and weaknesses of biological and chemical evolution. The open letter and list of signers, released Tuesday by Discovery Institute, Read More ›
When students study Darwin’s theory of evolution, should they learn only about its strengths, or should they also hear about its weaknesses? And should they learn about the best current evidence for evolution, or should they study outdated examples that have been discredited by the scientific community? Those are the real issues Discovery Institute has raised with the Texas State Read More ›
Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct — eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part of his life Read More ›