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Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine Professor, Gives $10 Million to School

Steve Zylius/UC Irvine​Francisco Ayala has announced he is donating $10 million to UC Irvine's School of Biological Sciences, the largest gift ever by a faculty member at the university.  A renowned geneticist, the 77-year-old professor was once dubbed the 'Renaissance man of evolutionary bio ... More >>

Francisco Ayala Jr., Patient Care Tech Held in Hospital Rape, Administers Ugliest Police Mugshot of Week

​Heads or tails as to what's uglier: Francisco Ayala Jr.'s police mugshot or the crime the 27-year-old Anaheim resident faces arraignment for this morning.The emergency room patient care technician is accused of raping, sodomizing and engaging in oral copulation with an intoxicated woman who was ... More >>

Why Women Can't Read Maps: a Theory of Evolution

Research headed by UC Irvine science superstar Francisco Ayala that found the brains of the two sexes react differently to beauty also may help explain why women can't read maps and men can't see what's right under their noses.Ayala -- the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & ... More >>

Crazy Christians Trash Schuller on National Day of Prayer

Today is the National Day of Prayer, a chance for America's most-oppressed people—Christians—to ignore the Nazarene's advice and insist the world see them pray. Heading the affair is Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family overlord James Dobson. To plug the event, Shirley appeared on the Hou ... More >>

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