VIDEOS
William Grassie, Big History: The New Narrative, 8:37
David Christian, The What and Why of Big History, 21:53.
Bob Bain, Big Questions about Big History in US schools, 42:09.
What knowledge of science, culture and civilization would you most want to pass on to the surviving humans as they faced the prospect of adapting to a new environment and rebuilding their lives over many generations?
Environmentalists might applaud a planet at the turn of the next century with 2 billion fewer people than today. The economic consequences, however, could be catastrophic.
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.
What of human civilization would survive on a much-transformed planet, as some day it surely will be? Our best strategy is to distribute the hard won discoveries and inventions of science, technology, history, and culture as broadly as possible throughout the world.
“We are the music makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams…” “Each age is a dream that is dying,Or one that is coming to birth.” Arthur O’Shaughnessy, in his great Ode, captured something uncannily like our moment: history does not move only through institutions, arguments, and systems. It also moves through imagination, desire, vision, and world-making….
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes.