Month: November 2013
Postcard from Borneo: The People
Alfred Wallace would come to see in human beings something special, unique in the natural world, far and away qualitatively different from anything else in the animal kingdom.
But Surely We Can’t Conjure an Entire Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilization?
In this wilderness of unknowns, how do we decide what’s modern science and what’s modern folklore?
Deliberately Concealed, Waiting to Be Searched Out?
Here’s a little video by Frank Gregorio, "Introduction to Cells," that gives chills.
About Last Night: "Creativity in the Cosmos"
That was a very successful evening when Dennis Prager, a good friend of Discovery Institute, got together with Discovery fellows Stephen Meyer, Michael Medved and George Gilder.
Honeybee Teaches Engineers How to Land a Robot
Once again, engineers have looked to nature to figure out a simple solution to a complex problem: how to land a robot on surfaces of various angles.