Posts tagged with ‘Big History’

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The Great Matrix of Big History
Understanding Natural Hierarchies through Big History Buy the Book: Applied Big History Our European ancestors once understood the universe...
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The Economics of Cell Biology: A Little Big History
Buy the book! Getting Down to Business Economic metaphors help to better understand cell biology. In return cell biology...
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Climates Change—Get Over It!
We live on a restless planet. We wouldn’t be here otherwise. Our lineage, Homo sapien, began its social conquest...
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Applied Big History: A Guide for Investors
Based on a talk given at the Research Retreat of Canyon Partners September 10, 2014, Beverly Hills, CA “If...
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The Competent Outsider
What does it mean to be a “competent outsider”? This has been a major challenge in my life. I grew...
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The Queen of the Sciences
Our medieval ancestors understood theology to be the queen of the sciences. Her twin sister Sophia—the Greek word for...
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Religion und Naturwissenschaft
Die Grundlage eines sinnvollen Engagements zwischen Religion und Naturwissenschaft Vortrag für den RSNG-Jahreskongress der Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart. 28.-30. September...
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Recovery Planning for Climate Catastrophes
Join with me in a thought experiment. Imagine a major planetary cataclysm. It could be a global nuclear war,...
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Big History gets Bigger
It was the first meeting of the International Big History Association, and it brought together 200 academics—university, secondary, and primary...
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Greece, the Global Economy, and Big History
Watching the sunset from the cliffs of the Santorini caldera attracts tourists from all over the world, I recently...
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Energy Solutions from the Perspective of Big History
Humans now consume some 18 trillion watts of energy in a variety of forms—fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas); hydropower;...
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Easter: A Moveable Feast
Easter, you may have noticed, is not a fixed day in the calendar. While Christmas, in contrast, occurs reliably...
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Engaging the New Metanarrative
Science is progressive, and it tends toward consensus of necessity. Science discovers, illuminates, and crafts facts, and we rely...
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Telling Time: A Correlated Big History
The challenge of measuring time reaches back to the origins of human consciousness. From a 28-day periodicity of the...
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History as Science
History is generally considered part of the humanities, a discipline alongside literature and languages, philosophy and the arts. The...
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Climates Change
We need a back up plan! In the face of the cold sciences and heated debates about climate change,...
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Peak Humanity
I was born in 1957. Eisenhower was president. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik. The Cold War was heating up,...
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Millennialism at the Singularity
Reflections on the Metaphors, Meanings, and Limits of Exponential Logic Imagine billions of nanobots, tiny computerized machines smaller than...
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Reinventing Science Education
Government and business leaders are worried about STEM education. There is a growing shortage in the United States of...
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Post-Darwinism: The New, New Synthesis
A review of Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution, by Scott F. Gilbert and David Epel (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer...
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A.N. Whitehead’s Metaphysics
Resources and Problems In 1927, British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead was asked to give the prestigious Gifford...
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Astrobiology and the Human Prospect
In the Heavens as It is on Earth: Astrobiology and the Human Prospect The collision occurred on February 10,...
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Teaching the History of Nature
Towards an Integrated Science Curriculum (1) The 20th century has seen enormous advances in science and technology. General science...
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Entangled Narratives
The Hermeneutics of the Good Life in a World of Competing Metanarratives “Our first business will be to...
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Metanexus: The Challenge
My charge tonight is to give a keynote in which I lay out what I think the major challenges...
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Useless Arithmetic and Inconvenient Truths
A Review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis,...
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Review of Beinhocker The Origin of Wealth
In Search of New Economic Metaphors for Biology A review of Eric D. Beinhocker, The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity,...
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Metanexus: The Very Idea
The juxtaposition of the concepts “science” and “religion” in our civilization is a kind of Rorschach Test for all...
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Science, Semiotics, and the Sacred
Seeking Spiritual Information in the Deep Structure of Reality Our principal benefactor at Metanexus Institute is John Templeton, the...
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Universal Reason
Science, Religion, and the Foundations of Civil Societies Presented at the Institute for Wisdom and Philosophy, Tehran, Iran, May...
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Beyond Intelligent Design
The English theologian William Paley wrote an influential book in 1802 entitled Natural Theology: Evidences of the Existence and Attributes...
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Which Universe Do You Live In?
The success of modern cosmology in understanding the history and structure of the universe has led to a profound...
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Toward a Constructive Theology of Evolution
Toward a Constructive Theology of Evolution This paper was originally presented at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on...
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Science as Epic of Evolution?
Can the epic of evolution serve as a mythic story for our time? To do so requires insights of the...
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The Nine Laws of God
Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control Techno- Utopic Program for a WIRED World This essay is based on a paper presented to the Theology...
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