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The Origin and Fate of the Universe

September 14, 2016, 4:30 Connelly Center Cinema; Villanova University David Chuss, Department of Physics “How did the Universe begin?” is one of humanity’s oldest questions. Though the approach to this question has spanned many fields of study, the last century has provided the opportunity to apply the scientific method to this question with results that […]

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Thomas Berry-An Earth Spirituality Out on the Edge

Thomas Berry was a cultural historian, a monk and a Roman Catholic Priest. Though he was a member of the church he lived on the edge of the institution. His unique talents out on the edge enabled him to look back into the church’s history. He could see its limitations and how they would affect […]

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Waking up in the Anthropocene: Big History and the Biosphere

This is a Powerpoint Presentation of chapters 3 and 4 of the author’s doctoral dissertation. It contains theoretical development and qualitative data from an empirical study. This presentation was delivered at the 2016 International Big History Association Conference.

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Waking up in the Anthropocene: Big History and the Biosphere

This is the front matter and (synopsis and table of contents) to my recently completed doctoral dissertation. As this dissertation is currently being converted into a book, individual chapters are made available upon request.

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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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