Tag: UC Santa Barbara

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 16, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, brain, consciousness, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, NOVA, Roger Sperry, seizures, split brain, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind, UC Santa Barbara, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 16, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, biochemists, Bruce Lipshutz, Dave Farina, ID the Future, James Tour, peptides, podcast, Professor Dave, Professor Dave Explains, researchers, Rice University, science educators, Stephen Meyer, UC Santa Barbara, water, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

Meyer and Tour Complete Four-Part Seminar on Origin of Life: Will Professor Dave Watch?

_{David Klinghoffer
August 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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If Professor Dave watched to the end, he would have to confront the fact that he deceptively conscripted biochemist Bruce Lipshutz as an expert witness. Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Biston betularia, Charles Darwin, Colorado, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, evolution, evolutionary biologists, genetic information, Harrison Tasoff, hopeful monster, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Michael Behe, petals, positive selection, saltation, sepals, Stephen Meyer, UC Santa Barbara, Zombie Science (book)}

No “Hopeful Monster,” Flower Demonstrates Evolution by Subtraction

_{Science and Culture
February 25, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Evolutionary biologists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, noticed something peculiar about the columbines in a region of Colorado. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 2, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, alchemy, chemical energy, chemical reactions, DNA, Helen Hansma, Inference (journal), information, Jeremy England, mica sheets, molecular engines, natural selection, perpetual motion machine, physicists, proteins, RNA, self-replication, thermodynamics, UC Santa Barbara}

Barriers to an Unguided Origin of Life: Biophysicist Helen Hansma Enters the Debate

_{Brian Miller
November 2, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Professor Hansma maintains that sets of integrated reactions could have been directed by natural selection to gradually evolve into an autonomous cell. Read More ›

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Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, architecture, bioluminescence, Biomimetics, carcinology, click beetle, crustaceans, Darwin Devolves, entomology, France, froghopper, Harrison Tasoff, hinge, humidity, insects, John Dabiri, krill, leafhopper, medicine, mucus, National Science Foundation, ostracods, Paris, planthopper, PNAS, robots, Stanford University, temperature, termite mound, termites, UC Santa Barbara}

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›

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Date
November 16, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptationist, American Biology Teacher, computer model, Dan-Eric Nilsson, evolution, eyes, Free Science, genes, Jonathan Wells, macroevolution, mantis shrimp, Nature (journal), neurobiology, Oxford University Press, phenotypes, PNAS, Richard Dawkins, Theodosius Dobzhansky, UC Santa Barbara, vision}

Can You Say That in Nature? Dobzhansky’s Evolution Cliché Is Becoming Passé

_{Science and Culture
November 16, 2018

Biology, Evolution

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“Nothing in biology makes sense except…” Go ahead; complete that sentence yourself, with a yawn. Read More ›

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Date
September 18, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, aircraft, cockatoo, Current Biology, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Himalayas, murmuration, New Caledonian crows, sea turtles, starlings, UC Santa Barbara}

Cool Bird Tricks — The Longitude Problem, High-Flying Ducks, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 18, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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It took mariners centuries to solve the longitude problem. Read More ›