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A two-minute fix for procrastination

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Religious studies associate professor Joseph Blankholm, November 2025

$1.5 million grant advances UCSB leadership in the study of modern spirituality
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The Turkana are nomadic pastoralists who live in Kenya

Genetic adaptations helped East African nomadic pastoralists adapt to constant water stress, but urbanization may present an 'evolutionary mismatch'
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Genetic adaptations helped East African nomadic pastoralists adapt to constant water stress, but urbanization may present an 'evolutionary mismatch'
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Michael Gurven reframes aging as evolutionary success
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Detail of "Queer Traffic" book cover with art by Lechevirgen Trimegisto

Free trade, moral panic and the politics of belonging
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Sherrilyn Ifill

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reimagines democracy in talk for UCSB Arts & Lectures
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UCSB’s repository houses collections for research and storage; access to Native American materials requires tribal permission.

UCSB outlines progress and goals for Native American repatriation
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Experts to discuss repatriation, religion and law
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Paul Leonardi

In ‘Digital Exhaustion,’ Paul Leonardi shares how to make technology work for you
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Tikal, in Guatemala, is among the major sites of the Classic Mayan civilization.

Why Classic Maya cities rose and fell
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Fareed Zakaria makes sense of a changing world in Arts & Lectures talk
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UCSB scholar to lead world’s largest actuarial society
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