An eight minute video of Ilya Prigogine, one of the greatest minds of any century…….reflecting on his epic work in describing the self-organizing dynamics of living systems…..the emergent creativity in/of the interior domains at every evolutionary level.
This is a manual that I created to support the implementation of Big History within our high school program at Community Montessori.
This issue deals with the origins of long history of almost all ideas, the fallacy of “arguments from authority,” the framing of ideas as “extraordinary”, Lynn Margulis’s “math of biology 1 + 1 = 1,” misappropriation of the scientific term “symbiogenesis” in John Archibald’s history of the current rethinking biology in terms of collaborating consortia, […]
Review of Grandmother Fish, with an emphasis on the right age to start teaching evolution to...
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A presentation to the European Society for Literature,Science and the Arts (SLSAeu) at their 2015 meeting on “Scale” in Malta. The presentation discusses the new paradigms in biology and evolution that have provided new support for the importance of the microcosmos, symbiosis, Gaia theory, and the work of Martin Brasier on his discovery of “the […]
Jennifer Joy is an artist who presents various types of performances about science and Big History. Her collaborator, beatbox/hip hop artist Benu Muhammad and she are putting together a podcast/audio series about evolution – for junior high/high school students. They will combine storytelling, humor, characters and vocal sound effects to tell evolution’s stories. Their first […]
Lovelock first sketched out his theory in his bestseller, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. People all over the world embraced the theory, and in less than ten years it moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream. Lovelock argues in Gaia Theory that such things as the level of oxygen […]
Written for the Rio de Janeiro meeting The Thousand Names of Gaia September 2014 Bruno Latour, Sciences Po For discussion only. English kindly corrected by Michael Flower “Since we are assembled for a sort of political, scientific and anthropological ritual in order to review, utter, celebrate, list, enlarge, narrow down, pin point, conjoin or compose […]
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon is a beautifully illustrated storybook about the symbiotic...
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from Vimeo “A short film documentary in remembrance of the biologist who changed our point...
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Our Vision is to ignite our sense of connectedness with Earth and nurture a spirituality of Earth care through learning circles.
Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
Gladwyne Montessori is an independent Montessori school on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
Committed to guiding adults in their journey as they discover the truths about childhood and study Montessori pedagogy. Personal growth and deep understanding prepares us for success.
The result is transformative.
