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Today's Audible Daily Deal looks like a good one for those seeking worldly wisdom ($4.95): Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc [I'm also nearly finished with a similar book, Stuff Matters, which was...
- We Need A Modern Origin Story: A Big History
Link to: Edge #441 - A Conversation With David Christian In modern science, and I include the humanities here, science in a German sense of science—rigorous scholarship across all domains—in modern science we've gotten used to the idea...
- Davos 2015 - How Did We Get Here? Big History 101
Link to video ................. Related links: Big History Project David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes ...
- Bill Gates On Reinventing Capitalism At Techonomy
Bill Gates was the grand finale of the "Techonomy" conference, taking the stage in a packed room to discuss "Reinventing Capitalism: How to jumpstart what the marketplace can't." ….. Gates says K-12 education will not — can not — shift to the...
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For interested readers, The Teaching Company course that Bill Gates recommended in his interview with Charlie Rose is now on sale: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity - ...
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Bill Gates: Big History Project Update
The Big History Project began a few years ago after I took an online version of the college-level Big History course. I was so impressed with the structure and approach of big history that I got excited by the opportunity to offer it to a broader audience.
Big history is different from other history courses in that it covers our complete 13.7 billion years of shared history – going all the way back to the Big Bang. The course then progresses to cover the development of stars, elements, plants, life, humans and our modern-day civilization. These “threshold moments” all share common themes and patterns that are the foundation for the course. To understand the similarities, differences and implications of these thresholds, students have to use many different disciplines spanning cosmology, physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology and social studies.
By connecting different areas of knowledge into one unified story, big history provides a framework for learning about anything and everything. I really like how the course challenges students to wrestle with big questions – questions like how different time scales affect our perspective on history, how language transformed humanity, and what it means to be human. It’s a course I believe everyone should take.
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Related previous post: TED Talk - David Christian: Big history
Link to The Great Courses: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity (not on sale now, but all courses go on sale for at least 70% off at least once a year).
- Links
Today's Audible Daily Deal looks like a good one for those seeking worldly wisdom ($4.95): Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc [I'm also nearly finished with a similar book, Stuff Matters, which was...
- We Need A Modern Origin Story: A Big History
Link to: Edge #441 - A Conversation With David Christian In modern science, and I include the humanities here, science in a German sense of science—rigorous scholarship across all domains—in modern science we've gotten used to the idea...
- Davos 2015 - How Did We Get Here? Big History 101
Link to video ................. Related links: Big History Project David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes ...
- Bill Gates On Reinventing Capitalism At Techonomy
Bill Gates was the grand finale of the "Techonomy" conference, taking the stage in a packed room to discuss "Reinventing Capitalism: How to jumpstart what the marketplace can't." ….. Gates says K-12 education will not — can not — shift to the...
- Big History
For interested readers, The Teaching Company course that Bill Gates recommended in his interview with Charlie Rose is now on sale: Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity - ...