External Links
Big history web sites
Big history courses
Lectures
Scientific journals
Organizations
Museums
General information
Fun
- 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
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