Archeological evidence points to the sudden appearance of strikingly modern behaviour in humans around 50,000 years ago in the form of sophisticated tools and art like painting, sculpture and engravings. A possible reason for this could be the development of … Continue reading
This on-line game lets you free a mammoth from the ice, create fire and invent the wheel, all with a time limit. Needless to say I was too slow to achieve anything! Short History of the World – Online games … Continue reading
Reuters reports that the French government is likely to renew its ban on GM maize despite its highest court ordering the ban illegal. The government claims that MON810 is a risk to the environment. Monsanto, which manufactures the seed, will … Continue reading
There are increasing signs that the Higgs boson exists with a mass of between 115 and 135 GeV and that it decays into two bottom quarks. At a conference in La Thuile, in Italy, both the ATLAS and CMS experiments … Continue reading
Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however, assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations are limited by their reduced ecologic complexity and sample period, respectively. In contrast, the geological record contains long-term … Continue reading
David Christian is a professor at Macquarie University, Australia where he teaches big history courses and is beginning the process of setting up a Big History Institute. He coined the term “Big History” which is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary … Continue reading
David Christian of Macquaire University, Australia, has won the support of Bill Gates and Microsoft to support development of ChronoZoom, whose goal is: to make time relationships between different studies of history clear and vivid. In the process, it provides … Continue reading
What do you think of when you hear the words “World History”? John Green believes it is 15,000 years long. He has produced a series of YouTube videos giving what he thinks are the main facts in the story. Not … Continue reading
They call it the history of the world but this two-hour TV show, originally broadcast on the History Channel, is actually the history of the universe! It provides a quick overview of the whole subject. Available on DVD from Mar … Continue reading
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