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“First Year Experience ‘Big History’” at Dominican University of California offers students more than lessons on how to survive college; it has the potential to mold eager young students into kind, insightful, and creative global citizens.
Is there some way to adjudicate between the competing metanarratives that shape our lives and identities? The philosophy of interpretation can help us dig our way out of this relativistic mess.
They are too small to be perceived as separate entities by our naked eyes, and so large in their numbers we can hardly imagine them. A spoonful of water contains more atoms than there are stars in the universe. They are at the deepest roots of perceived reality.
In the “no focus” area, incremental changes in circumstances make for incremental changes in your feelings about your circumstances. But once your situation catches your attention, changes in your circumstances have an exaggerated effect on your mood. In light of the Focus Illusion, how then should we live?
The 21st century will be seen as humanity’s rite of passage. We’re growing up as a species, going through the very same process we’ve all gone through individually. Our biggest challenge? Idolatry of the written word.
Humans now consume some 18 trillion watts of energy in a variety of forms. Every aspect of our contemporary lives depends on this tremendous flow of energy.
We are not content with the experience of heat and cold. We want to know what exactly is the source of these sensations.
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?
Skeptical Science is a website devoted to explaining climate change science and rebutting global warming misinformation.
The largest-ever gathering of Big History scholars, scientists, professors, teachers and graduate students will converge on Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 2-5, 2012 as the International Big History Association holds its inaugural conference.