Tag: Duke University

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

5}

Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, AlphaFold, antibiotics, ATP synthase, biophysicists, Brownian motion, Caltech, cells, conformations, cytoplasm, Duke University, Eric Hedin, intrinsically disordered proteins, kinesin, Maxwell’s demon, MIT, molecular machines, noncoding RNAs, nucleus, proteins, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Scotsmen, The Scientist, Washington University}

Embrace the Chaos: How Cells Harness Disorder for Function

_{David Coppedge
September 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

In three classes of examples, cells are shown to manipulate chaotic forces toward functional purposes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Paul D. MacLean, triune brain theory, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, anthropomorphism, bacteria, behavior, Chapman University, Curiosity rover, Darwinians, Duke University, flowers, herbivores, intelligence, intelligent design, leaves, memory, Nature (journal), nitrogen, programming, self-awareness, synthetic organic chemistry, tentacles, The New Yorker, trees, Wesley Smith}

The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

_{David Coppedge
November 6, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bioelectricity, C. elegans, codes, communication, cows, Current Biology, Darwinism, Dionaea muscipula, Duke University, human body, information, Linköping University, Michael Faraday, microbes, Phys.org, rabbits, Science Advances, Sweden, ticks, Velcro, Venus flytrap}

Bioelectricity Gives Biologists a Jolt

_{David Coppedge
August 16, 2023

Biology, Botany, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

We’ve explored bioelectricity in cells. We’ve looked at it within the human body. Now, electrical engineering is being found in the realms between. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 24, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Arctic terns, birds, brain, Current Biology, drones, Duke University, evolution, hummingbird, intelligent design, Live Science, migration, mimicry, odors, parakeets, parrots, phytoplankton, PLOS ONE, salmon, starlings, vocabulary, zoologists}

Appreciating Bird Mimicry and the Other Exceptional, Designed Talents

_{David Coppedge
July 24, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Let the reader enjoy the 350+ word vocabulary of Clover, alleged to be the best talking parrot in the world. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bible, Bible Belt, Boston Globe, Duke University, evolution, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, monkeys, Research, UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania}

Is There a Boom in Research Dishonesty?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 12, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Or do some academics just feel sure they won’t get caught? Or that, if they do, it somehow doesn’t matter? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Biology
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, bacteria, biosphere, cancer, complex life, defluorination, Duke University, intelligent design, Mercury, microbes, Nature (journal), Nature Microbiology, New Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ocean, oil spills, Penn State, pollutants, pollution, Science Advances, seafood, tuna, UC Riverside, Yujie Men}

Gifted Microbes Elevate the Case for Intelligent Design to the Entire Biosphere

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2023

Biology, Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Far from being humble, primitive steppingstones to higher life, microbes display superpowers that so-called “higher” forms of life depend on. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 20, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Caltech, Christie Wilcox, chromosomes, Duke University, ENCODE, evolution, GENCODE, genes, intelligent design, John Mattick, junk DNA, miRNA, mRNAs, Nature Methods, ncRNAs, noncoding RNAs, Research, RNA, The Scientist, UC San Diego, University of New South Wales}

Noncoding RNA Research Gaining Ground Over “Junk” Label

_{David Coppedge
October 20, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Perhaps it won’t be long before everyone, critics included, looks at the “junk DNA” concept in the rear-view mirror. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 20, 2022

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, bioRxiv, co-evolution, convergence, Current Biology, DNA, Duke University, evolution, ferns, Florida Museum of Natural History, Foresight (book), gene flow, heredity, horizontal gene transfer, human evolution, intelligent design, introgression, Neanderthals, North Carolina State University, University of Tübingen}

Gene Sharing Is More Widespread than Thought, with Implications for Darwinism

_{David Coppedge
September 20, 2022

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Evidence is growing that organisms share existing genetic information horizontally, not just vertically. Read More ›