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An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that... →
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability... →
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of... →
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements... →
Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being?... →
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in... →
Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied... →
You go to the cosmologists and ask how they tell the history of the universe; you go to the geologists, how do they tell the story of the earth, and... →
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is... →
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