In architecture, they have a saying: "Form follows Function." Lately, when I look at our campus, I get the feeling that Form is trailing somewhere off in the distance. More likely it fell off a cliff ...
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"I've been on top of six thousand-meter-high mountains in Central Tibet," UCSB Geologist Bradley Hacker said. "They don't really have a particular name. Just features out in the middle of the Plateau....
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Simply put, however, there are times and places where your brain makes the conscious decision that it is just easier to bleed.
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Welcome to Vandenberg Air Force Base in north Santa Barbara county, where history is made behind locked doors. Vandenberg is the United States' proving ground for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
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Scientists' most basic assumptions about the fossil record may be going extinct, thanks to the work of a large research team at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
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Technophiles and humanitarians found a rare common ground Friday in Isla Vista Theater in the lecture of renowned physicist and science writer Freeman Dyson, who spoke on technology and social justice...
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One of the most prolific science writers of all time, Freeman Dyson has published several books on the future of mankind and written articles for Time Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and The New Englan...
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Nothing can hold people's attention for two days. Specifically, a conference on "nothingness" held the attention of a full crowd in Buchanan 1910 last weekend.
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BOOMERanG keeps coming back.The strange acronym is the name of the airborne telescope, Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics, which helped physicists determine the...
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Newton and Galileo considered themselves philosophers, not scientists. They considered their groundbreaking work just one part of a larger philosophy, a view UCSB history Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Ru...
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UCSB Professor Emeritus Walter Kohn attracted a crowd worthy of a rock concert to Kohn Hall on Friday afternoon.
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The forum - which includes seminars, lectures and undergraduate courses - is a three-year project funded by a special $100,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation, an organization that promotes s...
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Tiny robots built by Yulun Wang, a former UCSB electrical and computer engineering professor, are giving doctors a new and safer tool to operate with.
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Three UCSB faculty members reported building a device which emits individual photons on demand. This machine could be the first step toward building a new type of computer that operates using photons ...
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“dusty rusty crusty musty ass california hills”
“frowning in plaid (haunted radios, bird bones + anthropomorphized wind)”
“warming my hands on bridges i’ve burnt”
“songs that make me see god”
“My Playlist #236”
“classy wine moment and intellectual conversation”
“90s heroin chic model off duty”
“tweet tweet bird emoji map emoji”
“not my circus, not my monkeys”
“a grave is probably cheaper than an apartment”
“ATE THESE BITCHES LEFT NO CRUMBS / DID IT IN DESIGNER PUMPS”
