Is it Time for Planet B?
Hybrid and free to attend forthcoming symposium Is it Time for Planet B? Venue: on-site attendance: Quarry Hill Campus, Leeds City College, LS2 7BS, UK and Online – log-in details to be advised nearer the [...]
IBHA Board Members as of August 1, 2022
Many thanks to all those who participated in the 2022 IBHA Board election! Your board members are as of August 1, 2022: Daniel de Pinho Barreiros David Blanks Lowell Gustafson Priyadarshini Karve Andrey Korotayev Alexis [...]
Two New Books
Future Stories: What's Next? by David Christian Science, Religion and Deep Time, Edited By Lowell Gustafson, Barry Rodrigue, David Blanks
Consciousness
What is consciousness and what is its role in the large scale evolutionary history of the universe that we call Big History? Is it possible to unify all of Big History into one unified coherent [...]
The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring
During, M.A.D., Smit, J., Voeten, D.F.A.E. et al. The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring. Nature 603, 91–94 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04446-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1 Abstract The Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction around 66 million years ago was triggered by the Chicxulub asteroid impact on the present-day Yucatán [...]
Big Architecture
Recordings of the panel on Big Architecture are here. Humanity has evolved out of the emergent complex structures of earlier life forms, Earth, and the cosmos. Using the self-consciousness, analysis, imagination, and creativity that our [...]
La Gran Historia del Agua
You are about 60% water right now. That water, which is essential to your life today, has a history that reaches back billions of years as it was formed in space. It was later delivered [...]
6th NoRCEL CONFERENCE: Chemical Informational Universe
IBHA members are encouraged to participate in NoRCEL's conference on chemical information. Is life nothing but a large network of chemical reactions and cycles, endlessly recycling itself with ever greater complexity? Surely something else is [...]
A portrait of central Italy’s geology
‘A portrait of central Italy’s geology through Giotto’s paintings and its possible cultural implications’, Ann Pizzorusso, Geoscience Communication https://medievalartresearch.com/2021/04/28/new-journal-article-a-portrait-of-central-italys-geology-through-giottos-paintings-and-its-possible-cultural-implications-ann-pizzorusso-geoscience-communication-volume-3-number-2-decemb/
The Evolution of War
https://youtu.be/9QxtJXsD6H8 The Evolution of War Sponsored by the International Big History Association (IBHA) Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ) Villanova University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Presentations: War inside my head: ethology and [...]