Stardust Plus Time Equals Us
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
From the 2009 Terry Lectures at Yale University by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel Primack.
A hilarious and informative cartoon history of the English language in just over 10 minutes from the Anglo-Saxons to the Internet!
This keynote talk by Bob Bain was given at the Metanexus symposium on Teaching Big History at the Harvard Club of New York on September 21, 2013. Bob Bain shares the experiences of the teachers and students participating in the Big History Project and argues that the curriculum is the key to solving a number…
The panel on “Quantum Biology and the Hidden Nature of Nature” at the World Science Festival last month was particularly memorable. Skip to 5:30 to hear John Hockenberry give an informative and humorous introduction to these strange bedfellows—biology and quantum mechanics. Paul Davies, Seth Lloyd, and Thorsten Ritz then join Hockenberry for a fascinating conversation….
Joel Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His wife, Nancy Abrams, is a specialist in the history and philosophy of science. Together they deliver this motivational TEDx talk, which calls for a cosmological, Big History perspective as a means to solving some of our most difficult…
In this lecture, William Grassie proposes that we focus science education more on what happened when than on how and why evolution occurs.
The video below, from Kosovo 2.0, is a remarkable 21-minute example of how this story encircles the globe — and can delight children everywhere. The children journey through the countryside around Kosovo, as the 13 billion year epic of their ancestry is laid out proportionally over the miles. Author Metanexus Editors