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The History and Future of Everything is a beautiful infographic movie showing the increasingly vast timescales of Big History. The work is a collaboration between the blog WaitButWhy and the information…

In 2011 the historian David Christian gave a talk at TED in California. His subject was “Big History“, the cross-discipline study of history he began teaching in Australia in the early…

“In my own time. On my own time.” is a project by Royal College of Art graduate Charlotte Christofferson. The project examines how gender and age affect our perception of…

So today is a leap day, right? Well, yes and no. We generally assume the 29th of February is a leap day but in the original Julian calendar the leap…

Big History chronicles all the major events from the Big Bang to the present day. It attempts to bring together the timelines of written history, archeology, geology and cosmology, and…

Last weekend I took part in History Hack Day. I’ve been wanting to reboot the Computus Engine for a while and what better excuse than this. As a Hack Day…

There was a time when predicting the future was the sole domain of mystics, auguries and madmen. Before the enlightenment it was commonplace for a ruling monarch to consult their…

A synchronoptic timeline is one in which several timelines are displayed concurrently. The earliest recognised example dates from 1753 and is the work of the French physician Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg. His…

The demo above attempts to locate your current position on the earth. I can’t take any credit for the 3D stuff as I based it on Andy Zupko’s great post…

image courtesy of Google Labs Temporal search took a big step forward yesterday with the announcement from Andy Hertzfeld of the launch of News Timeline on Google Labs. This is…