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Dr. Rich Blundell updated new location at Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 6 years, 5 months ago
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Dr. Rich Blundell wrote a new post, Waking up in the Anthropocene: Big History and the Biosphere 9 years, 10 months ago
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 […]
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Dr. Rich Blundell wrote a new post, Waking up in the Anthropocene: Big History and the Biosphere 9 years, 10 months ago
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 […]
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Dr. Rich Blundell wrote a new post, Rich Blundell on What's Next with Peter Buffett 10 years, 5 months ago
In this live radio show propagating from Woodstock NY, Rich Blundell speaks with Peter Buffett and Jimmy Buff about Big History and the meaning of life, the universe and everything. The fun but compelling […]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Professional Development in Deep Time Education in the forum my forum new one 10 years, 9 months ago
Hi All,Superb work here Jennifer! Thank you for starting the thread.I am much looking forward to participating more deeply in this conversation and the continuing development of these principles. Indeed, the subject of my on-going doctoral research is all about how Big History works as transformative learning at the tertiary level. Over the past…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Big History's anthropocentric bias in the forum my forum new one 12 years ago
Great conversation!
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I think a key thing here is the acknowledgment that we are integral. A lone bacterium is a different entity than one existing within a living system or ecology – just as we would be different without its presence. And frankly, sometimes I don’t see where one being begins and the other ends.
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Big History's anthropocentric bias in the forum my forum new one 12 years ago
I generally agree with you James and what you describe is a far too common perspective. However, I do grant humanity some credit for bringing cosmic creativity along (some of) the path that we have (the very realization you are proposing, for example). I think getting out of our own hubris can certainly be part of the narrative too. Don’t really…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Launching Cosmosis1: A new Big History App in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years ago
Kyle, John, Jennifer and Orla,
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Thanks for all the comments! Expressions of interest in beta testing have really poured in over the past week, so I think it is time to cease the request for more testers. Those of you who offered above, would you mind using the form available through the website (link in above post)? That way we’ll be sure to have…[Read more]-
good luck rich! when is your ‘defense’ date? just remember that you are the expert in the field and any questions are not second guessing you put actually questions to help them understand. It always amazes me to think that noone else on the planet has approached a research question the way i have, or you have, etc etc and that it is our…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell posted an update 12 years ago
@terrimackenzie Hi Terri, Thanks for the note and support. About the iPhone thing, I frequently feel conflicted because I want nothing more than for people to put away their technology and get outdoors to experience nature in the first-person. That’s why I insist on having each app get people outside learning how to experience the cosmos in a new…[Read more]
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thank you Rich for developing this resource. I have a dinosaur phone but will get my husband to download it to try it out where we are in India. Last year I had met a woman who was a tour guide and writing walking tours of Mumbai for APP download- you are writing a walking tour of the cosmos. Perhaps your project could be developed for…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Launching Cosmosis1: A new Big History App in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years ago
Imogene, OMG is right!! I absolutely do LOVE Divine Sparks. It just lifted me! When I saw that celestial fruit, and that exultant frog, and that curious chipmunk, and then those googley-eyed hands, I could just feel your love of nature and creativity – and I could feel my own love of nature, and creativity too. How did you do that? Just wow! I…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic Launching Cosmosis1: A new Big History App in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years ago
Jennifer and Karen, thanks for the feedback and kind words! Glad you are liking the philosophy behind the app.
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There is so much to love about Dewey. There is, of course, the well-understood value of experience-as-education, but one of my favorite insights of Dewey’s is how he articulated the reciprocal of this. In other words, yes, there can…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell wrote a new post, Cosmosis1: The Cosmic Background Radiation Explorer 12 years ago
A smartphone app for exploring the Cosmic Background Radiation
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Dr. Rich Blundell posted an update 12 years ago
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Dr. Rich Blundell started the topic Launching Cosmosis1: A new Big History App in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years ago
Hello Deeptimers,
.In May of last year I was awarded an Innovation in Scholarship Grant to produce the first in a series of Big History-themed smartphone apps. I wanted to try and do something different and ended up inventing a whole new kind of app; one that provides accurate educational content, but also taps into the truly transformative…[Read more]
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Dear Rich, I love what you’re doing because you’re focusing on what’s happening INSIDE the viewer/learner in an emotional transformative sense, not just an information transfer sense. DTJN is 100 percent behind you in this crucially important goal. Rich is looking for people with iphones to help test the app, so please do write to him if you’re…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell replied to the topic About Big History in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years, 3 months ago
Dear Orla, Jennifer, and Cynthia,
Thank your for the thoughtful replies and links to resources. I am perusing them now.
You are right, this is a Big Topic with a lot of voices. As a grad-student, trying to carve out a niche, it feels like I’m in a disciplinary meat grinder. There are multiple rigor-bars that need to be reached, and legacy-hoops…[Read more]
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Dr. Rich Blundell started the topic About Big History in the forum Deeptime Network Forum 12 years, 3 months ago
Dear Deeptimers,
I am a PhD candidate whose dissertation explores the transformative potential of Big History from personal to cultural levels. I have been considering an idea that is integral to my dissertation and I am wondering if it makes sense. So I am hoping to get feedback from this community.
Here is the argument (FYI my background…[Read more]
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