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Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.