Origin Story
A Big History of Everything
by David Christian · first published 2018
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"Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day--and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History," the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. In Origin Story, Christian t
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Book Titles > Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson. > Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved, by Kate Bowler > Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders. > Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, by David Christian. > Factfulness, by Hans Rosling, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Ronnlund. He goes in depth on why he recommends them on the gatesnotes website.
on “Books worth reading this summer” ↗I wonder how Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian compares to A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Otherwise, if anyone is looking for other recommendations for summer reading: - Sculpting…
on “Books worth reading this summer” ↗Great adage. It's from David Christian in Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, but really it's just a paraphrasing of Einstein, who compared knowledge to a circle, and referred to the circumference of darkness, rather than the unknown.
on “No-one knows what they are doing” ↗