yesterday’s news : last week’s remainders
- Salon investigates the ten million dollars that the Gates foundation has pledged to anti-scientific intelligent design advocacy Discovery Institute. Even though the Gates money is tagged for transportation research, Salon is not pleased. [#]
- Hendrix lovers will have a longer trek when visiting Seattle Jimi-related sites: his childhood home avoids demolition with a move to Renton courtesy of the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation. [p-i]
- Capitol Hill resident and award-winning playwright August Wilson revealed that he has terminal liver cancer and only months to live. The final installation of his decade-by-decade cycle of dramas exploring African-American 20th century life premiered this spring in New Haven. [suntimes]
