Make a dent in the universe: Erika Iives
This TEDxStavanger talk by Erika Ilves helps us to imagine the Big Future that our descendants might yet have if we take the long view now
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Natural History
During the summer of my ninth and tenth years, my mother, in lieu of hiring a babysitter, kept me captive in our hometown Natural History Museum all day, everyday. She functioned as a vibrant and quirky volunteer curator while I spent very long, solitary weeks communing with the museum’s animals, both living and dead, as…
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Row over IPCC Report
Robert Mendick of the Daily Telegraph reported this week about behind-the-scenes wrangling over the up-coming publication of the 2,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Big History, Big Problems, Big Questions
William Grassie introduces the Metanexus symposium on Teaching Big History with a short talk entitled “Big History, Big Problems, Big Questions.” William Grassie is the founder and executive director of the Metanexus Institute. A teacher, independent scholar, activist, and impresario, Grassie studied political science at Middledury College and received a doctorate in religion from Temple…
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The What and Why of Big History
This lecture by David Christian was part of a Metanexus symposium on the Teaching of Big History at the Harvard Club of New York on September 21, 2013. In the lecture, David Christian explores the possible meanings of Big History. Originally a historian of Russia who wrote several books on that subject, including a history…
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Big Questions about Big History in U.S. Schools
This keynote talk by Bob Bain was given at the Metanexus symposium on Teaching Big History at the Harvard Club of New York on September 21, 2013. Bob Bain shares the experiences of the teachers and students participating in the Big History Project and argues that the curriculum is the key to solving a number…
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Science’s Humanities Gap
In his recent sermon to humanists, “Science Is Not Your Enemy,” the psychologist Steven Pinker makes an impressive plea for humanists to pay more attention to science and urges them to an interdisciplinary approach that he thinks has been sadly lacking. His general point is surely right: specialists in any area are likely to benefit…
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Bohemian Gravity
Delighted to share this video of String Theory set to Bohemian Rapsody by A Capella Science. This video and two others are the work of Timothy Blaise, a graduate student in theorectical physics at McGill University. Enjoy!
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The Universe Verse – A rhyming guide to our origins
The Universe Verse is a series of three scientifically-accurate rhyming comic books about the origins of the Universe, life on Earth and the human race. It introduces and illuminates the most fundamental features of our existence in a way that is engaging and accessible to a wide audience, including young children.
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Putting Time in Perspective
Putting Time In Perspective is a series of timelines posted on WaitButWhy.com. Informative and fun, start with your morning coffee today and change up the scales of your reality with these annotated timelines.
