Why Big History?
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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.
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.
We need to humbly put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of education, including and especially religious education.
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?
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
The four dimensions in the Great Matrix of Being give us four ways of measuring reality — by time, by scale, by energy density flow, and by thresholds of emergent complexity. All phenomena can be located within this Matrix.
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.
Applied Big History: A Guide for Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Other Living Things With a Foreword by Mitch Julis Cover Photo Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Table of Contents Foreword by Mitch Julis, Canyon Partners 1. Thriving in a Complex…