The first book of pedagogy for teaching Big History, out now (© 2015) from UC Press. Edited by Richard B. Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke. (This page: RBS)
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BIG HISTORY IN FICTION Teaching Big History coauthor/editor @rbsimon named a finalist in @PENamerica Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. :)
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Honored that my Hybrid Short Story "Corrido" is in @HungerMtn #30!
Teen Rabbit lead singer Alejandra Hernandez, sprung from S.F. City Jail by resistance fighters, is asked to make an agitprop holo to oppose the dictator. But Alex has other ideas ...
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The world just had its hottest April on record – extending the sequence of record-breaking months to 11 in a row. newscientist.com/article/243…
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Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
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I thought getting my paper out was the hardest thing.
No, this was the hardest thing I have ever done: science.org/content/article/…
I've been asked to look away, to let it remain in the shadows, but I am happy I put my foot down.
Huge thanks go out to my supervisor @PerAhlberg1 !
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Daarom heb ik deze yurlspagina gemaakt. astronomie.yurls.net/nl/page… De opbouw die jij gebruikt, gebruik ik ook. Een montessoriprincipe: va het geheel naar de delen en van de delen naar het geheel.
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For nearly 200 years we knew that spiders could move through the air & "fly" but we never understood exactly how. Only a recent series of studies found that spider's ballooning relies on the Earth eletricity field, or Global atmospheric electrical circuit buff.ly/2tXCxFF
An artist’s take on how the Webb images are being processed and how that taps our cultural imagination ...
Startling. These @NASAWebb images are sinking in. If we can see objects so far away and so far back in time with this clarity, imagine, too, the acuity with which we might see nearer objects. A Big Historian might imagine that new unforeseen possibilites will emerge ...
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WEBB Deep field image. Seen from Earth, per NASA, an area of the sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. All those dots are not stars, but GALAXIES, each one billions of stars. This is 13 billion light years away - so the light is from 13 billion years back in time.
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Republicans are getting very upset people keep retweeting this ad so I figured I would post for any of you who haven’t seen it yet and then I am going to retweet myself tonight.
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#MayThe4thBeWithYou
Star Wars has a long association with Pleistocene megafauna. AT-ATs are based on Paraceratherium, Ephant Mon is based on Platybelodon, and the Mandalorian's mudhorn is based on Elasmotherium. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mud…
ALT Top is a reconstruction of the siberian unicorn Elasmotherium. Bottom is a mudhorn from the series the mandalorian. Both are hairy rhino like creatures.
ALT A drawing comparing the large hornless rhino Paraceratherium to the AT-AT from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
ALT Ephant Mon, a bipedal elephant like alien from Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi.
ALT A reconstruction of the gomphothere Platybelodon which has a lower jaw as long as its trunk.