Conflicting Ideologies and Entangled Narratives
We argue about truth, beauty, and goodness based on competing religious, nationalistic, ethnic, and ideological stories. What intellectual tools can help to mediate between these competing narratives?
-
-
Big History: Engaging the New Narrative of Science
We need to humbly put questions about the universe and the universal back at the heart of education, including and especially religious education.
-
Telling Time: A Correlated History of the Universe
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.
-
Explore Big History
Big History seeks to evoke in you an appreciation for the immensity of science and a longing for the greatest story ever told.
-
Peak Humanity
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.
-
Climates Change!
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.
-
Essay | Essentials | Video
Journey of the Universe: Movie, Book, Curriculum
Big science, big history, big story. This one-of-a-kind film was written by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker.
-
Atoms and the Miracle of Life
An excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything” animated and narrated.
-
David Christian’s TED Talk
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.
-
Post-Darwinism: The New Synthesis
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…
