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.
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.
We need to humbly put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of education, including and especially religious education.
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
Dorling Kindersley Books (DK) recently published a four-hundred-page textbook on Big History with spectacular illustrations and content. This twenty-first century version of an illuminated manuscript might well be your best Bible to Big History. Big History also makes a great gift for growing minds. At five and a half pounds, this is not a book you’ll…
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.
A review of Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, By Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer 2009). As a combatant in the evolution wars here in the United States and abroad, I have penned and processed quite a few papers on the interpretation of evolution.1 This means also reviewing the…