Big History

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]