Big History

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 [...]

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 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/

NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project 2022 Virtual Event The International Big History Association is pleased to support the NoRCEL’s Blue Earth Project. In it, we ask: “Is humanity settling its own fate on ecological survival?” What [...]

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 [...]

Recent postings by Gabriel Ribeiro, Debora Kiyomi, and Daniel Vainfas, who are students of Daniel Barreiros, Professor Associado, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil https://www.labh-bighistory.org https://www.instagram.com/labhufrj https://www.facebook.com/labh.ufrj

The Story of Life (now on YouTube)byDr. Paul NarguizianCollege of Natural & Social SciencesDepartment of Biological SciencesCalifornia State University, Los Angeleshttps://youtu.be/Ei3TySPGzU0Science is a search for evidence, but the history of life on Earth, is a [...]

How did it all begin . . .? (Conference of the Network of Researchers on the Chemical Evolution of Life)

Incorporating the deep future into big history helps to produce a coming of age story to complement an origin one. Presented by Lowell Gustafson to the 2020 Globalistics International Conference and the Fourth International Symposium [...]

In this creative short story, The Illusionists, Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein "murdered" time. Or did they? https://youtu.be/JRXIsu735jw The text is available at https://ibha.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Origins/Origins_X_04.pdf#page=3 Lacy Loar-Gruenler has worked [...]