Developmental Biology Film Series
The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s official channel devoted to the National Science...
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Holism and Evolution
J. C. Smuts coined the term “holism” ( from holo-‘whole’ + -ism) in the 1920s to designate the tendency in nature to produce organized “wholes” (bodies or organisms) from the ordered grouping of units. Holism is the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the […]
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Big History, Small World
Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the only guide to a new approach to history that has been specifically designed for high school students and tied to the free curriculum provided online by the Bill Gates funded Big History Project. See the flyer by clicking on […]
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Applying Big History: Nature, War and Peace
This book is our first outcome of the international joint study of Big History between Japan, China and the Untied States, and also our first challenge to publish in multi-language. The axis of the book is articles of Barry Rodrigue and Osamu Nakanishi. Rodrigue argues that Big History is not only a study of all […]
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Big History, Political Identity, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
This paper explores how Big History affects political identity and ideas of security. It is for the 2016 IBHA conference. Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcomed!
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Big History and Religion: The Ties that Bind
My paper on this topic for the 2016 IBHA conference; comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome!
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June 2016 Environmental Evolution newsletter
Newsletter reviews Symbiogenetics, the 4th edition of Lynn Margulis’s magnum opus (Symbiosis...
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Bulletins of the International Big History Association
Origins, the bulletin of the International Big History Association, highlights the many activities, projects, and reflections that IBHA members and friends have on Big History.
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Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness (Book)
Orbis Books has started a new series: Catholicity in an Evolving Universe Series. This book by Ilia Delio demonstrates that catholicity is a conscious awareness of how everything–sun and stars, maple trees and muddy rivers, and all organisms from the single-celled to homo sapiens–forms one thing. It is a dynamic, spiritual quality that quite literally […]
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Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe
From the introduction: Since the earliest expressions of culture, humans have sought to understand and efine our place in the universe. To this end, we have developed cosolgies, which are stories that invoke our common experience of reality. These stories describe where have come fro and where we are going. The religioius and philosophical traditions […]
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