Putting Time in Perspective
Putting Time In Perspective is a series of timelines posted on WaitButWhy.com. Informative and fun, start with your morning coffee today and change up the scales of your reality with these annotated timelines.
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Four Reasons You Shouldn’t Exist
You’re almost unfathomably lucky to exist, in almost every conceivable way. Don’t take it the wrong way. You, me, and even the most calming manatee are nothing but impurities in an otherwise beautifully simple universe. We’re lucky life began on Earth at all, of course, and that something as complex as humans evolved. It was…
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Warning Label: Big Pharma meets Big History
Why should Big Pharma invest in Big History? My answer is in the form of a warning label I imagined attached to all pharmaceutical products.
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Big History Project Launch
There are big things happening with the Big History Project, an educational initiative started by Bill Gates to create a free online course for high school students.
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DNA storage: The code that could save civilisation
Neither Ewan Birney nor Nick Goldman can remember exactly how they came up with the idea of storing all the world’s knowledge in DNA. They know it happened in the bar of the Gastwerk Hotel in Hamburg, and that many beers were involved. They may or may not have scrawled their ideas on a napkin….
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Cosmic Awe
As many of you know, I’m fortunate enough to live in a city that values science and scientific knowledge so highly that the our local news station, KGW, routinely brings on scientists to talk about the lastest developments in our endeavors to understand the Universe around us. Just last week, I was invited to share…
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Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
What’s the point of the humanities? Of studying philosophy, history, literature and “soft” sciences like psychology and poly sci? The Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, consisting of academic, corporate, political and entertainment big shots, tries to answer this question in a big new report to Congress. The report is intended to counter plunging…
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The Future of History
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.
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el Universo en un Día
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.
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littleBIG History App
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…
