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Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Big History: From Big Bang to BlackBerry

History classes often cover a lot of retrospective ground. But not like Kevin Fernlund’s undergraduate course in big history. The professor of history and education at the University of Missouri–St. Louis looks at history from the Big Bang to the BlackBerry. With...

Eye on UMSL: Name that dog

The university kicked off an initiative to help name the Geospatial Collaborative’s agile mobile robotic dog from Boston Dynamics.

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

Big History Lecture to focus on famous fossil Lucy

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray had just concluded a long, hot November morning of mapping and surveying for fossils near the village of Hadar, Ethiopia. En route back to their Land Rover, the paleontologists detoured through a gully where something caught Johanson’s...

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