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Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up?
Monday, 7 July 2008, 9:41 am | Suzan Mazur
IT’S PRIVATE. That is now the word from organizers as to whether or not the public can listen-in to the conversation of 16 scientists meeting to remix the theory of evolution at Altenberg, Austria in July. More >>
Altenberg 16: An Exposé Of The Evolution Industry
Sunday, 6 July 2008, 12:32 am | Suzan Mazur
This book, The Altenberg 16: Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up? exposes the rivalry in science today surrounding attempts to discover that elusive mechanism of evolution, as rethinking evolution is pushed to the political front burner in ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: The Altenberg 16 (Part 1)
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 4:32 pm | Suzan Mazur
This book, The Altenberg 16: Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up? exposes the rivalry in science today surrounding attempts to discover that elusive mechanism of evolution, as rethinking evolution is pushed to the political front burner in ... More >>
A. Lima-De-Faria: Autoevolution, Atoms To Humans
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 4:50 pm | Suzan Mazur
"For a long time the experimental studies carried out on elementary particles, chemical elements and minerals did not reveal that they had an evolution of their own. This picture has been drastically changed in recent years by the finding that the elementary ... More >>
Piattelli-Palmarini: Ostracism W/out Nat Selection
Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:20 am | Suzan Mazur
“[I]nsects had evolved at least ten elaborate forms of mouthpieces, uniquely adapted (one would say) to their feeding upon flowers, one hundred million years before there were any flowers on Earth.” – Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini More >>
The Enlightening Ramray Bhat: Origin Of Body Plans
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 12:32 am | Suzan Mazur
“Our theory does not stand against natural selection in its entirety – it relegates it to a less important role,” says Ramray Bhat, cell biologist Stuart Newman’s co-author of the just published paper in Physical Biology: “Dynamical patterning ... More >>
Stuart Newman, The New Master Of Evolution?
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 11:37 am | Suzan Mazur
On his recent PBS television show One On One , John McLaughlin quizzed two religion authors about whether the idea of the Virgin birth in the oral accounts of the Bible had a reference in biology, with someone mentioning parthenogenesis – asexual reproduction. ... More >>
Suzan Mazur: Stuart Newman's "High Tea"
Monday, 31 March 2008, 9:14 am | Suzan Mazur
While some scientists prefer shaping their opinions about evolution based on audience reaction while on book tour – others are actually busy looking for answers in the lab. Stuart Newman, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College, ... More >>
Theory Of Form To Evolution Center Stage
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 2:02 pm | Suzan Mazur
IT'S PRIVATE. That is now the word from organizers as to whether or not the public can listen-in to the conversation of 16 scientists meeting to remix the theory of evolution at Altenberg, Austria in July. So while Konrad Lorenz Institute where the ... More >>
Richard Dawkins Renounces Darwinism As Religion
Monday, 17 March 2008, 9:52 pm | Suzan Mazur
Atheist evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins spoke to a packed auditorium at Manhattan's Ethical Culture Society Saturday night about his best-selling book, The God Delusion , admitting in a Q&A that followed being "guilty" of viewing Darwinism ... More >>
The Invite -- "Altenberg 16" Evolution Summit
Sunday, 9 March 2008, 12:12 am | Suzan Mazur
Because of intense public interest in what a new theory of evolution might look like, I am posting the letter I was sent inviting 16 biologists and philosophers -- "the Altenberg 16" --to meet in July at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Austria to discuss ... More >>
Mazur: Altenberg! The Woodstock of Evolution?
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 1:49 pm | Suzan Mazur
It's not Yasgur's Farm, but what happens at the Konrad Lorenz Institute Konrad Lorenz Institute in Altenberg, Austria this July promises to be far more transforming for the world than Woodstock. More >>
Bob Hecht: Fragments Of An Antiquities Conspiracy?
Friday, 28 December 2007, 1:59 pm | Suzan Mazur
Hugh Eakin’s recent "Treasure Hunt" story in The New Yorker profiling Marion True, the former Getty curator on trial in Rome for conspiracy to traffic in ancient art, devotes a column to True’s 1991 paper on the destruction of ancient cultural sites, ... More >>
Caspian Tales: John Deuss, Oil, Spooks & Cohibas
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 3:00 pm | Suzan Mazur
One of my favorite stories about the rush for Caspian oil riches is the one about the man who invested $3,000 there in the 1990s and left months later with $3 million stuffed in his socks. Steve LeVine, The Wall Street Journal ’s former Eurasia bureau ... More >>
Suzan Mazur Confronts Carl Bernstein On Mena
Monday, 8 October 2007, 1:00 pm | Suzan Mazur
Much has been written about the CIA cocaine operation at Mena, Arkansas during Bill and Hillary Clinton’s watch as governor and first lady of that state in the 1980s. So I wondered why Carl Bernstein left it out of his book on Hillary Clinton, A Woman ... More >>
The CIA, Narcotics & Underworld: Doug Valentine IV
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 11:16 am | Suzan Mazur
Several years ago, when I was trying to make the distinction between Lewis Lapham, the Editor of Harper 's Magazine -- whose roots are in an old San Francisco banking family -- and Lewis Lapham, the Central Intelligence Agency's man, I was directed ... More >>
Mazur: Deeper Into The Clintons' CIA Drug Nexus
Sunday, 8 July 2007, 11:59 am | Suzan Mazur
“Ask them what happened to Barry Seal,” Jon Kwitny, the late investigative journalist of Nugan-Hand Bank and other CIA-linked mysteries, said with a Cheshire grin as I left The Kwitny Report television show’s offices in New York and boarded an Avianca ... More >>
Bishop Romney's Sadistic Anti-Abortion Counseling
Saturday, 9 June 2007, 8:38 pm | Suzan Mazur
When Mormon feminist Judith Dushku learned that Mitt Romney, her former bishop and friend, counseled a woman to come to full term with her sixth pregnancy --despite overwhelming medical advice that the life of mother and child were seriously endangered ... More >>
Ex-CIA Chief George Tenet, Vacuum Cleaners & WMD
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 10:23 am | Suzan Mazur
Following the thorough public bashing of former CIA director George Tenet over his current book, At the Center of the Storm , his mea culpa about botched Iraq WMD war intelligence -- the question arises: Could the Bush II administration’s inspiration ... More >>
Mazur: LDS Church -- Mexico Drug Money Connection?
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 11:29 am | Suzan Mazur
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had a presence in what is now Mexico since the 1870s. Some of those early polygamist Mormon settlers of Chihuahua's Colonia Dublan and Colonia Juarez – where Mitt Romney’s father George W. was ... More >>
