Tag: UCLA

Focused man wearing futuristic brain computer interface intense concentration

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, brain implant, brain-computer interfaces, BrainGate2, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, dissidents, English, Erin Kunz, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Francis Willett, government, Ian Fleming, inner speech, Jacques Vidal, Manhasset, monologue, neuroscience, new york, Rudy Molinek, Sarah Wandelt, Smithsonian Magazine, speech, Stanford University, stroke, technology, UCLA}

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 19, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 25, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, biotechnology, blastocyst, cells, CRISPR, embryology, embryonic stem cells, embryos, gametes, genetic engineering, human embryos, human experimentation, implantation, morality, petri dish, pluripotent stem cells, public policy, Science News, synthetic embryos, UCLA}

Scientists Are Close to Creating Human Embryos from Stem Cells

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 25, 2023

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Life Sciences, Medicine

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Once again, biotechnology is racing ahead of our capacity to intellectually digest what is happening. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Arthur S. Reber, cells, central dogma, consciousness, DNA, Francis Crick, František Baluška, James Shapiro, materialism, neurons, Nobel Prize, nucleic acids, Oxford University, panpsychism, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, RNA, Scientific American, The Scientist, UCLA, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago, William B. Miller Jr.}

Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, adrenaline, Andromeda galaxy, ankylosing spondylitis, babies, bonobos, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, comedians, Doctor's Diary (series), evolution, exercise, fish, gorillas, human origins, humor, Immune System, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, laughter, oxygenation, rats, Robin Williams, specified complexity, The New England Journal of Medicine, topoisomerases, UCLA, Uranus}

Doctor’s Diary: There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution

_{Geoffrey Simmons
June 21, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Is a sense of humor a byproduct, an accident, or was it installed on purpose? For better health? There definitely seems to be a purpose. Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Cell Press, code, codons, immune cells, intelligent design, macrophages, pathogens, Rosetta Stone, Siri, UCLA, World War II}

Another Language Found in Life: Immune Signaling

_{Science and Culture
June 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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The authors, scientists at UCLA, compare their finding to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. Read More ›

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Date
February 18, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, aphids, binoculars, birds, Brown University, Current Biology, entomology, Flight, flight control, hummingbirds, insects, intelligent design, London, moths, Nature (journal), ornithology, UCLA, Wright brothers}

Intelligent Design in Birds, Insects Inspires Aeronautics and More

_{Science and Culture
February 18, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Scientists in London filled a flight tunnel with thousands of tiny soap bubbles to reveal the motions of air as the owl flies through them. Read More ›

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Date
January 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, 3D printing, amino acids, ancient Greeks, astronauts, bacterium, blueprint, Craig Venter, DNA, information, Internet, Internet of things, Nature Biotechnology, New Scientist, polyester, proteins, rabbits, scientists, self-replicating machines, steganography, UCLA, University of Oregon}

DNA of Things: Embedding Machines with Replication Data

_{Science and Culture
January 8, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In 1901, divers brought up from an ancient shipwreck the first part of the Antikythera mechanism made by Greek inventors. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Smith, Benjamin Libet, brain, fundamentalism, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, robot, Science Uprising, scientism, UCLA}

How Research on OCD Challenges Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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How does one “convince” a robot of anything, when changing your mind about an issue implies free will, which materialists are impelled to deny? Read More ›

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Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, crop circles, DNA, dragline silk, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, fairy circles, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, milkweed, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, proteasomes, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

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So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›

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Date
June 24, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, Israel, meaning, meaninglessness, morality, Moshe Averick, Nonsense of a High Order, Paul Nelson, podcast, UCLA}

Listen: Morality in a Meaningless World

_{Science and Culture
June 24, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Philosophy

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Discovery Institute fellow Paul Nelson interviews Rabbi Moshe Averick. Read More ›