Mira and the Big Story
Mira is a little girl who is sure she knows the truth about who her people are and how they came...
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Category: Learning Stages
I Am Life (Science for Students)
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 […]
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Born With a Bang (Video of Reading in UU Church)
Jeff Boxell’s lively reading of the the story “Born with a Bang – The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story” at Bay Area UU Church. The story is one in a series of three written by Jennifer Morgan illustrated by Dana Lynn Anderson. The reading or the book are not associated formally with NASA.
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Cosmic Calendar with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Starting with the Big Bang, Neil deGrasse Tyson shows the timeline of the Cosmic Story within a calendar year to show/explain scale. The Cosmic Calendar was created as part of the Cosmos Series, hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, which was aired on TV. Here’s the link to watch the series: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/
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Thomas Berry’s Functional Cosmology in the Trenches
Thomas Berry’s functional cosmology flows from his concepts of a New Cosmology and Earth Spirituality. It turns concepts into action. This talk describes my own efforts trying to implement a functional cosmology while working as a community organizer in Inuit and Dene communities in the Canadian Arctic and on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia.
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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth
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 […]
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The Thousand Names of Gaia
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 […]
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The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon
The Squid, the Vibrio & the Moon is a beautifully illustrated storybook about the symbiotic...
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In Search Of Truth. In Memory of Lynn Margulis
from Vimeo “A short film documentary in remembrance of the biologist who changed our point...
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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
from the publisher “Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view […]
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