Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment...
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who...
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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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Somatic and Narrative Ways of Knowing (Sonar) for Transformative Learning
This is my dissertation which traces our cultural environmental unsustainability, social injustice...
Read MoreExperiences of Astronauts Returning to Earth
This film has a number of astronauts describe their experience of seeing the earth from space. Some of them call their experience the “overview effect.” They recall Carl Sagan’s recognition that the earth is a fragile spaceship, protected by a thin atmosphere. This 19 minute film is an important introduction for recognizing the importance of […]
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Sisters of Earth Network
SISTERS OF EARTH 2014 CONFERENCE July 10-13, 2014 at the University of Saint Mary (USM) in Leavenworth, Kansas. Conference Theme: The New Emerging Humanity: Healing Into Wholeness. The ‘Sisters of Earth’ is an informal network of women most of whom are rooted in deep understandings of new cosmology and all of whom share a deep […]
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International Big History Association (IBHA) Members’ Newsletter: November 2013
IBHA Members’ Newsletter: November 2013
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OneZoom.org
OneZoom is committed to heightening awareness about the diversity of life on earth, its...
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- Materials for learning about the history and diversity of life
- Tree of Life chart – free download
- Nesting and Branching Diagrams for the Bony Vertebrates introduces “tree-thinking” and how to read phylogenies (evolutionary tree diagrams)
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- The Story of Mammals: From the Dawn of Life to the Present Day
- Outline of Geologic Time and the History of Life booklet
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Creation Spirituality: Reawakening Mysticism, Protecting Our Planet
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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.
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