BIG HISTORY
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  • 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 MOOC
    • 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)
  • 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)
  • Our Common Story, promoting big history worldwide
  • Tree of Knowledge, Ambitious project to construct an overview of all historical knowledge
  • EvoDevoUniverse. Discussion group based on theoretical physics and philosophy
  • Information Philosopher

Big history courses
  • Introduction to World History (= Big History), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (HIST115 & HIST359). Instructor: Dr. David Christian
  • Cosmic Evolution: The Origins of Matter and Life, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (Astro-E-8 COSMIC EVOLUTION). Instructor: Dr. Eric Chaisson
  • Big History, University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College, United States (LCC 350I). Instructor: Dr. Barry Rodrigue
  • Big History – Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity, University of California at Berkeley, United States (Letters & Science C70X / Earth and Planetary Science C51). Instructor: Dr. Walter Alvarez
  • Introduction to World Civilizations, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States (HST 101). Instructor: Dr. Craig Benjamin
  • Big History, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States (SSC 100). Instructor: Dr. Lowell Gustafson
  • Big History Project. On-line big history course for secondary schools (under development) sponsored by Bill Gates

Lectures
  • Big History, David Christian, March 2011, TED Talks
  • Wright Lecture Series on Cosmic Evolution, including Fred Spier’s lecture on 12 October 2005
  • Earth History in the Broadest Possible Context. Walter Alvarez, April 29, 2010, 97th Annual Faculty Research Lectures, University of California at Berkeley.
  • 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 MOOC
    • High School Courses
  • Research
  • References
    • Literature
    • External Links