SYLLABUS

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

READING ASSIGNMENTS

• LCDM
• Welcome to Big History – McNeill quote
• Cosmic Evolution Defined
• All 8 Thresholds of Big History
• We Need Big Historians Now! (NY Times items require subscription)
• David Christian’s Ted Talk
• Time and Space on Our Scales
• De rerum natura – selections
• The Lucretian Challenge
• Epicurus – First Big Historian
• Celebrate Uncertainty
• Dying Star Eats Planet (requires Washington Post subscription)
• Last Word on the Universe (requires NY Times subscription)
• Additional Reading – Print” (requires Apple ID and password”)  OR this link may work without Apple ID/Password
• Responses to questions – Class #4
• Earth’s Inner core