Where did everything come from? Where are we heading? Big History tells the story of the Universe starting from the Big Bang, the formation of stars, planets, life on Earth, modern civilisation — and what might exist in the future.
Asking which shifts, in which centuries, really shaped the modern world. a historian identified 10 leading drivers of change, century by century
Meanwhile, Prospect believes that reflecting on the past can give great insight into the present and has published accordingly The past in perspective e-book.
Are there laws of history? “Deep history,” which combines quantitative and qualitative “approaches tend to assume that the natural sciences are capable of producing objective knowledge, and that mirroring their methodologies will produce ‘better’ knowledge for the rest of the academy,” Amanda Rees told Exponential View in 2020.
An AI discovered evidence of human fires lit 1 million years ago. The tool was used to study flints from an archaeological site in Israel called Evron Quarry; it discovered many of those flints had been heated to temperatures above 400C.
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