The Universe Verse is the 13.7 billion year history of everything in 90 pages of illustrated verse produced by James Lu Dunbar. Suitable for children storytelling time, the witty collection of evocative rhyme and delightful cartoons can be downloaded as a free PDF eBook and also available for purchase in hardcover.
A report on the inaugural meeting of the International Big History Association in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
What will future historians and cultural anthropologists have to say about Western Civilization at the turn of the new millennium? If history has already ended, as Fukuyama continues to assert, they will of course have precious little to say. However, given the fact that, for better or for worse, we are still living within time…
I. Introduction One of the most vexing and pernicious aspects of science in general and the evolution controversy in particular is the tendency to make evolution and, by extension science, into general explanatory paradigms encompassing and/or supplanting philosophy, art, religion, and most other fields of human knowledge. The level of conceptual confusion inherent in this…
Metaviews 015. 2001.03.07. Approximately 970 words. Below is a follow-up posting to Metaviews 012: Galileo’s Troubles.Mariano Artigas clarifies the circumstances regarding Galileo’scondemnation by the Church in 1633. — Billy Grassie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=From: Mariano Artigas <[email protected]>Subject: Re: Metaviews 012 Regarding Metaviews 012 (Galileo’s troubles), we have received somecomments, that show that the whole thing has been misunderstood…
Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the ‘overview effect’ as an experience that has transformed their perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it, and enabled them to perceive it as our shared home, without boundaries between nations or species. OVERVIEW is a short film that will explore this…
We must learn how to become cooperative problem solvers to avoid the ecological and social self-destruction toward which we human beings are rushing headlong in a confounding variety of ways.