{"id":29,"date":"2012-03-04T11:41:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-03-04T20:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T20:58:21","slug":"david-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/david-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"David Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Christian is a professor at\u00a0Macquarie University, Australia where he teaches big history courses and is beginning the process\u00a0of setting up a Big History Institute. He\u00a0coined the term &#8220;Big History&#8221; which is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary way, the history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life, and Humanity,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>which is exactly the same aim as this history of the universe website.<\/p>\n<p>Below we show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_christian_big_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">David on TED<\/a>, where presents the history of the universe in 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011\/Blank\/DavidChristian_2011-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DavidChristian-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=512&amp;vh=288&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1118&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=david_christian_big_history;year=2011;theme=listening_to_teachers;theme=the_rise_of_collaboration;theme=technology_history_and_destiny;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=peering_into_space;theme=presentation_innovation;event=TED2011;tag=Internet;tag=big+bang;tag=cosmos;tag=education;tag=history;tag=humanity;tag=universe;tag=visualizations;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"pluginspace\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Christian is a professor at\u00a0Macquarie University, Australia where he teaches big history courses and is beginning the process\u00a0of setting up a Big History Institute. He\u00a0coined the term &#8220;Big History&#8221; which is the attempt to understand, in a unified, interdisciplinary &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/david-christian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}