Reimagining the Cosmos, Interview with Brian Green
This is an interview on On Being with Krista Tippett.
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Author: Jennifer Morgan
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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Cosmic Education — Keynote Address for AMS (American Montessori Society)
Keynote by Jennifer Morgan at the 2013 national American Montessori Society Conference in Orlando, FL. It’s an overview the Montessori Cosmic Education Curriculum and how it relates to other efforts to contextualize all subjects inside the story of the universe, and how it can deeply engage children of all learning styles at the Elementary Level […]
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A Hint of the First Dawn
Article in the New Yorker about images of three small galaxies in the act of merging only 900 million years after the Big Bang. The early primitive stars in these galaxies contain only hydrogen, helium and a small amount of lithium made in the Big Bang. Other elements were made inside of stars.
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Big Questions about Big History in U.S. Schools
This keynote talk by Bob Bain was given at the Metanexus symposium on Teaching Big History at the Harvard Club of New York on September 21, 2013. Bob Bain shares the experiences of the teachers and students participating in the Big History Project and argues that the curriculum is the key to solving a number […]
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Definition of Cosmic Education
Gives an overview of the basic definition of Cosmic Education. It was adapted by Jennifer Morgan...
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OneZoom.org
OneZoom is committed to heightening awareness about the diversity of life on earth, its...
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ChronoZoom.com
A website that show times scales, across Cosmos, Earth, Life, Prehistory, and Humanity. ChronoZoom is an open source community project owned by the Outercurve Foundation and dedicated to visualizing the history of everything. ChronoZoom bridges the gap between the humanities and sciences using a notion of “Big History” to easily understand all this information. This […]
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