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.
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.
This is the new chart for the new cosmology. It is the most comprehensive compendium of scientific facts on a single page I know. No reason to leave home without one of these maps of time stuffed in your glove compartment or backpack.
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.
“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….
Big science, big history, big story. This one-of-a-kind film was written by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.