Related to Big History Project

Bill Gates introduces us to “Big History”
(See “Big History Project” (David Christian) and “One Student”
Gates has funded Big History high school classes for 7 years.)

Link to the Big History Website and the Big History “course”

What is Big History?

Student Progress in Big History Courses

Why studying Big History may be Age Appropriate: Erik Erickson’s 7 stages.

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Related to Improbable Journey

The Empty Universe:
https://mailchi.mp/delanceyplace.com/the-empty-universe-81518?e=5c3c712697

No single birthplace for humans

David Christian, Origin Stories: Mass Extinctions

Insect Apocalypse and other extinctions

Snowball Earth (longer video)

Early Human migration in the Americas

David Christian on Shift from Foraging to Farming

Darwin and Wallace on Brain Evolution

David Quammen on Carl Woese: (Tree of Life) Revising Darwin

Tree of Life not linear–connects to notions of historical progress–Theories of History NY Times: How Would You Draw History?

E. O. Wilson, excerpt from The Meaning of Human Existence

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Steven Pinker SETI (Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence)

NYTimes article on Harari

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Related to A Short History

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Michael Faraday Bio and Career Notes

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