Neanderthals Feasted on Seafood, Seabirds, Perhaps Even Dolphins nyti.ms/2UzEdS6 #bighistory

Spot on María Dolores Castrillo & Class Central - the global #pandemic #lockdown has led to a surge in enrolments for the Big History Connecting Knowledge MOOC on Coursera. Education for a better world! coursera.org/learn/big-hist…

Insights from #complexity #economics drawing on work of Eric Beinhocker and Brian Arthur of Santa Fe Institute on why economies breakdown in Solving #ComplexProblems Specialization on @Coursera bit.ly/2Za2QZJ

THE GREAT GEOMAGNETIC STORM OF MAY 1921 (to see this story, please make sure to look at the May 13, 2020 version of Spaceweather.com ) #bighistory spaceweather.com

Thanks Leah Crane and good paper Alessio Capobianco and Matt Friedman #BigHistory #Life #Evolution

Great article Daniël Lakens - what #science needs now more than ever - #criticalthinking red team to join the fray! nature.com/articles/d4158…

A team of scientists have successfully produced coral that is more resistant to increased seawater temperatures. csiro.au/en/News/News-r…

#BigHistory #Humans Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behavior theconversation.com/prehistoric-hu… via The Conversation U.S.

#BigHistory #BigFuture

The #Geminids meteor shower delivered big time last night from #Tofino Tourism Tofino Canada Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 Dr. Tamitha Skov

Adorable alert. 🦀 The female red crabs of #ChristmasIsland are currently #spawning! Larvae will develop in the ocean for about a month before emerging from the water as tiny #crabs. bit.ly/29Hn8Ro Photo by Chris Bray.

Little big history of red barns #bighistory smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bar…

This elegant oil lamp was carefully sculpted from a piece of sandstone and used to illuminate cave painting at Lascaux. It is about 17,000 years old. This image shows the burnt fatty deposits in the bowl of the lamp when it was discovered buried in the cave in 1982.

Behaviour of millions still shaped by Industrial Revolution #BigHistory scimex.org/newsfeed/behav…

King Tut's Dagger Is 'Out of This World' shar.es/1MDooI via Live Science

Unearthed in Rome’s New Subway: Extinct Elephants and Persian Peach Pits nyti.ms/2kf34JH

A photo from Mars orbit reveals faults in the complex patterned layers of ground bit.ly/2CDLypd

What future robotic missions will we send to explore the solar system? Listen in live tomorrow at 2pm ET as we announce finalist concepts for a new mission to launch in the mid-2020s. Details: go.nasa.gov/2AZ8miJ

How Often Do Ice Ages Happen? #BigHistory shar.es/1M9mfU via Live Science

Wishing you a wonderful festive season from the Big History Institute. See you in 2018!