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Mahyad Tousi is a creative producer, cinematographer, and self-proclaimed story junkie and his resume ranges from Hollywood blockbusters to documentaries. BoomGen is a storytelling factory that sits at the intersection of interactive media, entertainment, and education.
The history of the Universe from the Big Bang to its possible ends en Español from a conference in Bilbao on the 25th of May.
ASAP Science is an organization commited to helping you understand science in your own life. Their weekly videos cover “all sorts of quirky and mind blowing science.” Here, they have created a highly entertaining song and cartoon to guide you through the periodic table. Written, Directed, Produced, Edited and Sung by Mitchell Moffit. Based on…
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer. Video edited by Max Schlickenmeyer
The Human Context Of Alister Hardy’s Thought Professor Sir Alister Clavering Hardy FRS (1896-1985) was Head of the Zoology Department in Oxford University between 1946 and 1961. He was widely recognised as the outstanding marine biologist of his day, and for reasons that will become clear, he had a great interest in organic evolution. Hardy…
littleBIG History is an interactive timeline that lets you explore world history on an unprecedented scale – from the first miliseconds after big bang to the present and beyond. It places humanity in the large context of cosmos, earth and evolution of life. The app organizes links to Wikipedia entries and other resources via a chronological…
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about science the way you’re used to it. From the blogger and host, Joe Hanson, Ph.D: “I have a Ph.D in biology, and my mission in life is to tell the world about the awesomeness of ALL…
There is a six-piece electro-pop band from New Orleans that goes by the name “Big History.” While previously unaware of the academic discipline that shares their name, the band’s music certainly reflects a Big History perspective. On one hand, the Big History curriculum weaves together many disciplines into a compelling narrative of the history of…
Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and others understood human politics as rooted in nature, but not nature as understood since Darwin, Einstein, and Hubble. This essay explores the dialectic of individualism and communitarianism through a re-telling of Big History.
Ecology is the new theology and women in climate science rock! “Climate Wake-Up” was the title of Connie’s and my four-church speaking tour in Kentucky in early May. The star of our illustrated talks turned out to be the northern jet stream — and how the 2012 record melt of Arctic sea ice has already…