History as Science
Exploring Big History requires that we systematically collect and analyze information about the past from an evolutionary and global perspective.
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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.
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Gravity Is the Ultimate Scrooge Principle, Part II
Wealth can behave like gravity, always making the rich richer and the poor poorer. If this is so, then what could be the economic force that counterbalances wealth the way motion counterbalances gravity?
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Gravity Is the Ultimate Scrooge Principle, Part I
Gravity in the cosmos presents a provocative metaphor for the large-scale behavior of the economy and the distribution of wealth.
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The Neuroscience of the Bar Mitzvah
It may be that those cultures that do not have a formal adolescent initiation ceremony do so at great risk to their wellbeing and survival. What we don’t invest in initiation, we later pay for in incarceration.
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The New Silent Majority?
The unaffiliated represent 17 to 22 percent of the U.S. population. When we add the MIAs—members in absentia—to the “nones,” we have what may be the largest “religious” group.
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In the Heavens as It Is on Earth
What is the lifetime of our communicative civilization? Will our civilization make it through the 21st century intact? Is there a “Great Filter” of self-destruction that limits the life expectancy of intelligent life in the universe?
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Debate Big Questions
Today, we face Big Questions about meaning and purpose, virtues and values, and how to shape our common future, as we continue to strive to understand our origins and place in the universe.
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Re-reading Economics: In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biological Evolution
Eric Beinhocker’s “The Origin of Wealth” offers exciting metaphors for rethinking Darwinism and evolutionary theory.
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The View From the Center of the Universe
Today’s golden age of astronomy is revealing that our universe is rich, fascinating, and meaningful, and in it we humans occupy an extraordinary place.