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  • Big History Project Launch

    By on August 9, 2013

    There are big things happening with the Big History Project, an educational initiative started by Bill Gates to create...

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  • The Omega Point

    By on July 29, 2013

    Jason Silva's latest explores the Omega Point, a term coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the maximum...

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  • Buckminster Fuller Institute’s “Dymax Redux”

    By on July 19, 2013

    Seventy years after its invention, the Buckminster Fuller Institute has organized a competition challenging graphic designers, visual artists, and...

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  • Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching Big History

    By on July 16, 2013

    Join Metanexus in exploring the benefits of teaching Big History and the challenges of its implementation. We will share...

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  • 101 Top Web Resources on Climate Change

    By on July 15, 2013

    EnvironmentalScienceDegree.com is an enormously helpful platform for anything and everything environmental. Their mission is to help environmentally conscious professionals...

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  • Praise Darwin! (an evolution revival with Charlie Varon)

    By on July 15, 2013

    Comedian Charlie Varon "saves" his audience from worldly despair. Fourteen minutes of entertainment and scientific education culminates in a...

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  • Cosmic Voyage

    By on July 12, 2013

    Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film that explores the scale of the universe from the quantum level...

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  • Crowdfunding Science

    By on July 2, 2013

    Science is getting in on the crowdfunding trend in a big way. Over the past few years, organizations like...

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  • Imagining the Invisible

    By on June 24, 2013

    On a recent visit to Pioneer Works in the Brooklyn Red Hook neighborhood, I heard a lecture by Matthew...

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  • Astrophysics: Time for an Arab Astronomy Renaissance

    By on June 13, 2013

    Islamic astronomy enjoyed a golden age from the ninth to the sixteenth century AD. Great observatories in Baghdad, Damascus,...

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