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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Category: Higher Education
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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Eucharistic Prayer of the Cosmos
A fresh new interpretation of who “God” is; how we fit into the entire cosmos; and how...
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Journey of the Universe (Conversations/Educational Series Overview)
This is a follow up to the Emmy Award winning film, Journey of the Universe. Conversations with scientists, environmentalists, and educators in a twenty-part series (30 minutes each) in a 4-DVD Set.
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Journey of the Universe (Movie)
The Emmy Award winning JOURNEY OF THE UNIVERSE tells an epic story of cosmic, Earth and human transformation from The Big Bang to today. Evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and Yale historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker have crafted an elegant narrative that both illuminates and celebrates the profound role humans play in the flourishing […]
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Journey of the Universe (book)
Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. And yet […]
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To Seek Out Distant Life: Astronomers Search for Signs of Life in the Skies of Distant Exoplanets
My July, 2013 cover story in Scientific American magazine on new ways to search for biological activity on planets orbiting distant stars.
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Cosmic Bulletins: Two Major Discoveries Rock Science
Article in TIME about the first direct detection of evidence for cosmic inflation when the universe was a fraction of a fraction of a second old
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Against Rhythm: How Postmodern Humans can Wake Up and Find Their Groove
A TEDx presentation. The objective of this presentation is to introduce the audience to a new and counterintuitive approach to educating for sustainability that focuses on living within the rhythms of the world as it is, not as we imagine it to be. Though sustainability education is rapidly becoming mainstream, it is undercut by a […]
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Transdisciplinarity, Worldview Change, and the Planetary Ecological Crisis
A Presentation from the 2007 Metanexus Institute Conference: There are a number of issues raised by the assertion around which this year’s conference is organized: “the challenge of the 21st century will be to integrate or synthesize the outcomes of the exponential growth in human knowledge into meaningful wholes.” One issue concerns clarity of intent. […]
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