The Evolution of War
Sponsored by the International Big History Association (IBHA)
Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ)
Villanova University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Presentations:
War inside my head: ethology and the transdominial mind (starts at 0:04)
Daniel Barreiros
Institute of Economics Bioethics and Applied Ethics Center
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

The Universality and Uniqueness of Extremist Violence (starts at 33:18)
Anthony C. Lopez
School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
Washington State University

Creative Destruction: War, Truth, and Nature (starts at 52:05)
Lowell Gustafson
Department of Political Science
Villanova University

 

Issue DOI: https://doi.org/10.22339/jbh.v4i2.4200

From the Editor

Articles

SETI and Big History: Challenge and Extension
Lowell Gustafson
SETI e la grande storia: sfide ed espansione
Tradotto da Demetrio S. Yocum
SETI e a Grande História: Desafio e Extensão
Traduzido por Daniel de Pinho Barreiros
A History of Cosmic Habitability
Amedeo Balbi
Una Storia dell’Abitabilità Cosmica
Uma História da Habitabilidade Cósmica
Biospheric Evolution Is Coarsely Deterministic
David Schwartzman
L’Evoluzione Biosferica è Grossolanamente Deterministica
Tradotto da Nicolò Antonietti
Searching for Life on Mars: The Role of Chaos
Giorgio Bianciardi
Alla ricerca di vita su Marte: il ruolo della Fisica del Caos
Two Power Curves Yielding the Energy of a Lifetime in Evo-SETI Theory
Claudio Maccone
Due Curve di Potenza Rappresentanti l’Energia di un Ciclo di Vita nella Teoria Evo-SETI
Tradotto da Nicolò Antonietti
Some Culturological Aspects of METI Problems with EM Radiation
Liliya Filippova, Vladimir Filippova
The Experience of Intercultural Dialogue in the Amazonian University UCSS-Nopoki and Its Implications for SETI

Paolo Musso, Mariano Asla, Wilmer Atachahua Ursua, Guisella Azcona Avalos, María Capatinta, Ángel Gómez Navarro, David Lagos Liberato, Didier López Francis, Janina Navarro Linares, Carlota Pereyr Rey, Teófilo Vargas, Carlos Viaña Rubio, Patricia Vilcapuma Vinces
L’Esperienza del Dialogo Interculturale nell’Università Amazzonica UCSS-Nopoki e le Sue Implicazioni per il SETI e la Big History
Tradotto da Paolo Musso
La Experiencia de Diálogo Intercultural en la Universidad Amazónica UCSS-Nopoki y Sus Implicaciones para el SETI y la Big Historia
Traducido por Paolo Musso
Considering Grand Challenges in Undergraduate General Biology Education: Integration, Big History, and Scientific Literacy
Paul J. Narguizian
Feasibility Study for Employing an Interdisciplinary Framework for Sustainability Education: Teaching Experience from Hong Kong
Alexis K. H. Lau, Aidan W. H. Wong, Robert Gibson
Studio di Fattibilità per l’Impiego di una Struttura Interdisciplinare dell’Insegnamento della Sostenibi-lità: Esperienza di Insegnamento in Hong Kong
Tradotto da Nicolò Antonietti

In this creative short story, The Illusionists, Lacy Loar-Gruenler shares her account of how Kurt Gödel and Albert Einstein “murdered” time. Or did they?

The text is available at https://ibha.wildapricot.org/resources/Documents/Origins/Origins_X_04.pdf#page=3

Lacy Loar-Gruenler has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor, and corporate lawyer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Villanova University, and currently is a graduate student in Harvard University’s program in Creative Writing and Literature. Her interest in Big History, including religious tradition, is grounded in her love for forward-thinking philosophers who have explored the human need to answer existential questions. She is working on a memoir about her years living in France.

The video also features “Gravity’s Law” composed by Sam Guarnaccia and performed by the Main Line Symphony Orchestra. This piece is part of the Emergent Universe Oratorio, available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHx0AeNv1KqTv4bpv3nw7Smi0Yeb3NKK9 The story is narrated by Lowell Gustafson.

This is a video produced by the International Big History Association (IBHA) at https://bighistory.org/

How surely gravity’s law,
Strong as an ocean current,
Takes hold of even the smallest thing
And pulls it toward the heart of the world.

Each thing —
Each stone, blossom, child —
Is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
Push out beyond what we each belong to
For some empty freedom.

If we surrendered
To earth’s intelligence
We could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
In knots of our own making.
And struggle, lonely and confused.

So, like children, we begin again
To learn from the things,
Because they are in God’s heart;
They have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:
To fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
Before it can fly.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

Articles

The Tree of Knowledge System: A New Map for Big History

Gregg Henriques, Joseph Michalski, Steven Quackenbush, Waldemar Schmidt
1 – 17

Book Reviews

Contributors

177 – 178

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