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A Short Story Of Everything - David Christian

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Story of Big History

The course was a mess in some ways. The lecturers were great, but you know, the astronomer would start talking about supernovae or... And introducing entirely new jargon. So my students were a bit lost. I realized teaching big history was actually not more difficult than teaching Russian history. But by now, I'm absolutely convinced it's the educational environment that's the problem, not the idea of big history.

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