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Refueling the Magic Furnace: Kilonova 2017 Rewrites the Story of Element Origins

Journal of Big History, 2018
For more than half a century, we have understood element creation in the stars—described in Marcus Chown’s colorful image as “the magic furnace.” From 1958 until 2017, supernova explosions were thought to be the primary site of element creation above ...
Barry Woods
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2023
Review of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything.
Luc Wodzicki
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Big History in the Ecuadorian Educational System: Theory, Practice, and Public Policies of Environmental Education

Journal of Big History, 2019
The main objective of this paper is to describe two eco-pedagogical experiences developed with the Environmental Education Program of Educator, using Big History as theoretical framework.
Javier Collado-Ruano
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Reading Alberto Caeiro’s Poems with Anthropocene Eyes

Journal of Big History, 2019
The term “Anthropocene” proposed by Crutzen and Stoermer in 2000 names a new geological epoch, that endows humans with geological agency. The advent and acceptance of this new geological epoch begs the revision of Modernity’s cherished
Tatiana Massuno
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Expanding Worldviews Astrobiology, Big History, and the Social and Intellectual Benefits of the Cosmic Perspective

Journal of Big History, 2019
This special issue of the Journal of Big History contains the peer-reviewed versions of seven papers presented at that meeting (i.e.
Ian Crawford
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Uma História da Habitabilidade Cósmica

Journal of Big History, 2020
Nossa compreensão do universo é baseada no modelo cosmológico do Big Bang, que descreve um universo em expansão cujo desenvolvimento começou 13,8 bilhões de anos atrás, a partir de um estado quente e denso.
Amedeo Balbi
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Cosmic Perspectives and the Myths We Need to Survive

Journal of Big History, 2019
Big history can be defined as the attempt to understand the integrated history of the cosmos, Earth, life and humanity. Cosmic perspectives and biological evolution are the main scientific ingredients that can convert and broaden history into big history.
Charles H. Lineweaver
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Biospheric Evolution Is Coarsely Deterministic

Journal of Big History, 2020
Starting with the origin of life, I argue that the general pattern of the tightly coupled evolution of biota and climate on Earth has been the very probable outcome from a relatively small number of possible histories at the macroscale, given the same ...
David Schwartzman
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L'Evoluzione Biosferica è Grossolanamente Deterministica

Journal of Big History, 2020
A partire dall'origine della vita, sostengo che il modello generale dell'evoluzione strettamente accoppiata del bio-ta e del clima sulla Terra sia stato il risultato molto probabile di un numero relativamente piccolo di storie possibili allamacroscala ...
David Schwartzman
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Reexamining “Free Energy Rate Density” as a Complexity Metric

Journal of Big History
Cosmic Evolution, by Eric J. Chaisson is arguably one of the original “core” texts of big history. Despite being published over 20 years ago, it is still relevant for its explanation of the cosmological and thermodynamic underpinnings of the evolution of
Ken Solis
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