BIG HISTORY
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    • The Apollo Earthrise Photo
    • A Short History of Big History
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    • UvA Elective Big History Course
    • UvA Honours Big History Course
    • UvA Honours Course: Information Revolutions in Big History
    • Local Big Histories
    • UvA MOOC
    • UvA Podcast
    • High School Courses
  • Research
  • References
    • Literature
    • External Links

External Links

Big history web sites
  • Wikipedia big history page
  • Youtube Big History Series
  • International Big History Association (IBHA)
  • European Big History Network (EBHN)
  • Big History on Facebook
  • Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind, Wright Center, Tufts University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
  • ChronoZoom. Interactive big history timeline being developed at UC Berkeley by Roland Saekow and Walter Alvarez
  • Scale of the Universe
  • Powers of Ten, including Kees Boeke’s original version
    Powers of Ten on Youtube
  • History of the Universe
  • A Walk through Time
  • Uitgeverij de Arend, Big History for children (in Dutch)​
  • EvoDevoUniverse. Discussion group based on theoretical physics and philosophy
  • Information Philosopher

Big history courses
  • Big History Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Instructor: Dr. David Christian
  • Introduction to World Civilizations, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States (HST 101). Instructor: Dr. Craig Benjamin
  • Big History Project. On-line big history course for secondary schools sponsored by Bill Gates
  • La Gran Historia, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain 
  • Local Big History, Università Degli Studi Di Milano, Milan, Italy. Instructor: Dr. Grieco Giovanni
  • The Big History of Civilizations (MOOC), Grand Valley State University, Michigan, United States. Instructor: Dr. Craig Benjamin
  • Big History: Connecting Knowledge (MOOC), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Instructor: Dr. David Christian

Lectures
  • ​International Symposium "Big History and Global Evolution" . October 21, 2020. Please note: the English-spoken part of this conference starts at 5 hours and 50 minutes.
  • ​The Anthropocene in Context, David Christian, September 2016, Keynote Address at the Big History Anthropocene Conference, Macquarie University.
  • Big History and the Future of Humanity, Fred Spier, September 2011, Lecture at Villanova University.
  • Big History, David Christian, March 2011, TED Talks
  • Earth History in the Broadest Possible Context. Walter Alvarez, April 29, 2010, 97th Annual Faculty Research Lectures, University of California at Berkeley.
  • The Big History of Humanity, Craig Benjamin, November 2010, Lecture at Grand Valley State University.
  • What Is Our Place in the Cosmos?, David Deutsch, July 2005, TED Talks
  • Earth in its Final Century?, Martin Rees, July 2005, TED Talks

Scientific journals
  • New Scientist
  • Scientific American
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Science Daily
  • Science News

Organizations
  • International Big History Association
  • World History Assiociation
  • World History discussion group at H-Net
  • World History Connected, online World History journal
  • Fernand Braudel Center, center for the study of World-Systems Theory
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • European Space Agency
  • Solar Influences Data Analysis Center at the Royal Observatory of Belgium
  • Spaceweather

Museums
  • National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (in Dutch)

General information
  • WorldWide Telescope (great astronomy site)
  • The Particle Adventure, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, United States
  • Kennislink, Scientific news and background information (in Dutch)
  • Oermens, Palaeo-anthropology, with excellent worldwide links and references (in Dutch)
  • The Beauty of Maps: great BBC documentary on maps and map making
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

Fun
  • The Big Bang Theory Theme with Lyrics, YouTube video
  • A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything, animated drawing
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  • Home
  • About Big History
    • The Apollo Earthrise Photo
    • A Short History of Big History
  • Courses
    • UvA Elective Big History Course
    • UvA Honours Big History Course
    • UvA Honours Course: Information Revolutions in Big History
    • Local Big Histories
    • UvA MOOC
    • UvA Podcast
    • High School Courses
  • Research
  • References
    • Literature
    • External Links