Cosmic Story Mat
A stunning companion piece to the book, Born With A Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story....
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Author: Jennifer Morgan
Video about An Tairseach, Wicklow, Ireland
This video of Sr. Marian O’Sullivan at An Tairseach and its farm and the surrounding area of Wicklow explains the inspiration behind its work. An Tairsearch means threshold and the idea, according to Sr. Marian, is that humanity has to pass through a threshold into another phase in the Human/Earth/Cosmic Journey.
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BEING HUMAN in the Age of Humans (The Anthropocene: The Era of the Man-Made World)
Terrific article about the anthropocene as a way of thinking about human identify, and what it...
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Birth of the Solar System (Song for Elementary Level)
This is a wonderful song for teaching the steps from the Big Bang to Formation of the Solar...
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Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process
This is a distillation of Thomas Berry’s work into Twelve Principles. They can serve as the basis for teaching his thought.
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Expanding Teilhard’s “Complexity-Consciousness” Law
One of Teilhard’s great discoveries related to the theory of evolution is his Law of Complexity=Consciousness. Simply put, this law reflects the tendency in matter to become more complex over time and at the same time to become more conscious. Teilhard recognized that this tendency in material things toward higher levels of complexity leading to […]
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Reimagining the Cosmos, Interview with Brian Green
This is an interview on On Being with Krista Tippett.
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Non-Scientists Talking Science, The Risk
This article was written specifically for the Deep Time Journey Network by Michael Lemonick, a science writer for TIME magazine, a Senior Writer, Climate Central, and a lecturer at Princeton University. The Deep Time Journey Network knowingly rides the precarious knife edge between science and the humanities. We feel that this conversation is of great […]
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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Written by three big historians with long experience of teaching big history, this is the first college level textbook on big history. It updates the big history narrative, incorporates the core idea of Thresholds of Increasing Complexity, adds further readings and resources, and also chapter questions and many illustrations, maps and diagrams. Nine of the […]
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Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present. 2nd ed. New York: New Press. 2012. 1st ed, 2007.
This short book (250 pages) tells big history for a general audience in clear, non-academic language, yet well documented. The general theme is of the human history portion is humans in their environment, connected by food.
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