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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #101A:
Mind
Open, Vision Global
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Ancient Origins website
“reconstructing the story of humanity’s past”
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The Earth Institute at Columbia
University
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| Seeker
-- Science & Exploration / Always Curious |
| Have
An Open Mind by Z. Hereford
(from
Essential Life Skills) |
| 7
Benefits of Being Open-Minded
(essay from Positively Present) |
| Are
there signs of life on alien planet K2-18b, or is it just a lot of hot
air? by Nell Greenfieldboyce (from NPR April 16, 2025)
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| Something
Mysterious Swept Over Solar System 13 million Years Ago by Noor Al Sibai
(from Futurism March 2025) |
| Did
we kill the Neanderthals? New research may finally answer an age-old
question by Kristina Killgrove (from Live Science October 4
2024)
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| Cosmic Perspective--how embracing cosmic realities can enlighten our view of human life by Neil deGrasse Tyson
(essay from Natural History website) |
| An
'ancestral bottleneck' took out nearly 99 percent of the human population
800,000 years ago by Laura Baisas (Popular Science August 31
2023) |
| Pathogenesis
by Jonathan Kennedy (review of 2023 book about the role of bacteria
and viruses in world history from The Economist April 15 2023) |
| 54,000-Year-Old
Stone Points Are Oldest Signs of Bow and Arrow Use in Europe by Issac
Shultz (posted on Gizmodo Feb 22 2023)
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| Three factors explain why it’s so hard to change our minds — but it’s not hopeless by Keith M. Bellizzi
(from The Conversation Aug 11 2022) |
| “Want
to Be More Open-Minded?” (article from Harvard Business Review Jan 22 2019) |
| Live
Streaming Views of Earth from camera on The International Space Station
courtesy of NASA (service started May 2014) |
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Understanding Evolution ("your
one-stop source for information on evolution" on Univ. of California,
Berkeley website)
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Is
Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Famous Idea on Its 25th
Anniversary by Anil Ananthaswamy (from Scientific American Nov
30 2022)
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7 million year old evidence of bipedalism by Ewen Callaway (from
Nature, August 24 2022)
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Archaeologist
says she's found artifacts from famed 1540 expedition (report from CBS
News Feb 14 2022)
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“Who
Were the Denisovans ?” by Richard
Pallardy (report on human evolutionary paths from Discover Jan 17 2022)
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Did
America’s people first come to this continent by land or
by sea? by Ross Andersen (from The Atlantic October 2021)
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"Science
quietly wins one of the right’s longstanding culture wars" by
Matthew Rozsa (from
Salon August 24 2021)
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Briefing:
Astrobiology (the search for alien life / report from The Economist
Feb 13 2021)
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Hybrids
and Evolution (report from The Economist Oct 3 2020)
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Supercomputer
model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction (Institute
for Basic Science
report May 20 2020)
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Researchers
wonder if ancient supernovae prompted human ancestors to walk upright
(report from University of Kansas May 28 2019)
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"How
the Universe Creates Gold" by Duncan Brown and Edo Berger
(article on EarthSky.org website)
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Climate
Change Likely Iced Neanderthals Out Of Existence" by Jason Daley
(from The Smithsonian August 29 2018 post)
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“Modern
humans left Africa much earlier” by
Pallab Ghosh (from Science correspondent, BBC News
Jan 25 2018)
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“Humans
Lived in Americas 130,000 years Ago Study Claims" by Carl Zimmer
(article in The New York Times April 26 2017) |
| Hunting
for Aliens –Earth-sized Exoplanets (report from The Economist August
27 2016) |
| "Of
What is the Universe Really Made?" (science brief about the
search for dark matter from The Economist August 22,
2015)
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| "Planck
Telescope Puts New Date Stamp on First Stars" by Jonathan
Amos (report from BBC News Feb 5 2015)
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| Fossil
reveals transitional link from fins to feet" by Meeri Kim
(article of evolutionary import, from January 13 2014 edition of The
Washington Post)
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| "Human
Evolution: Unity or Diversity" (news report from The Economist October 19 2013) |
| "Mass Extinctions: Small But Deadly"
(news report of research in The Economist July 27 2013) |
| "Ancient
Europeans Underwent Mysterious Genetic Transformation 4500 Years Ago,
Study Suggests" (April 2013 report on The Huffington Post)
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| "When
Did Humans Come to the Americas?" by Guy Gugliotta (article in The Smithsonian Feb 2013) |
| A History of the World
in 100 Objects (BBC website uses objects from the British Museum to
tell human story; companion 2012 book by Neil MacGregor) |
| The
Big Question: What Day Most Changed the Course of History? (ten
different answers to this, from The Atlantic March 2013) |
| The
Evolution of Co-operation by Martin Novak (2011 talk by Harvard
professor on edge.org website)
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| The
Great Story (educational site re:14 billion year evolutionary heritage
of humanity told as sacred story) |
| An Atlas of the Universe
(award winning website) |
| Cosmos and Culture: Cultural
Evolution in a Cosmic Context ed. Steven Dick (read whole 2009
book online) |
| The Foundational Questions
Institute ("exploring the foundations and boundaries of physics
and cosmology")
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| Universal
Darwinism (website about "design
found in the universe as the creation of Darwinian processes")
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| Evolution
and Development of the Universe (papers from October, 2008 conference
in Paris)
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| Our
Place in Space (Harvard-Smithsonian / NASA tour)
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| The Man Who Found Time by Jack Repcheck
(review of this 2007 book about James Hutton) |
| The Scale of the Universe (to
help make sense of cosmic distances and evolutionary history over time) |
| Astronomy Picture of the Day
(NASA maintained website for discovering the cosmos) |
| No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale,
by F. Frankel and G. Whitesides (more about this 2009 book) |
| Powers of Ten, a short film by Charles
and Ray Eames
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| The
Future of Homo Sapiens, by Peter Ward (2009 article by Univ. of
Washington paleontologist) |
Teaching
the Flat Earth Theory, by Ellen Wedum (about helping students overcome
"The Illusion of
Central Position:" the perception that the world centers on ME.) |
| Cosmic Concerns (explores
different ideas and theories of cosmology) |
| Evolution
and Extinction (numerous links from website for paleobotantists
involved in education) |
| In
Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension, by Dan Falk (read
excerpts of 2008 book at Google Books)
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| "Discovering
Planets Just Got Easier," by Michael Lemonick (article in Time
November 26, 2008) |
| Kepler--The Search for
Habitable Planets (the NASA/Ames Research center website for this
project)
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| "Cosmic
Flock," by Dan Cray (report on NASA spacecraft exploring solar
system in Time March 31 2008) |
| quotes related
to seeing a situation from different perspectives
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