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Applied Big History is a guidebook to doing good and well in a fast-changing world. With the help of numerous experts, author William Gras*ie builds a lattice work of diverse disciplines—physics, chemistry, geology, cell biology, energetics, informatics, evolution, anthropology, psychology, economics, and more. Gras*ie explores the significant of chaos and complexity, and the dynamics of discovery and innovation, in evolution and economics. He does so with a practical eye to how these new sciences can help better understand and better practice economics, business, and finance in the face of uncertainties. The ten dimensions in the Great Matrix of Being give us ten ways of measuring reality — by size, time, matter, energetics, electromagnetism, sound waves, information-ingenuity, sentience-consciousness, culturally constructed hierarchies, and thresholds of emergent complexity. All phenomena can be located within this Matrix. Dorling Kindersley Books (DK) recently published a four-hundred-page textbook on Big History with spectacular illustrations and content. This twenty-first century version of an illuminated man*script might well be your best Bible to Big History. Big History also makes a great gift for growing minds. At  five and a half pounds, this is not a book you’ll want to carry around. It VIDEOS William Gras*ie, Big History: The New Narrative, 8:37   David Christian, The What and Why of Big History, 21:53.   Bob Bain, Big Joel Primack is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His wife, Nancy Abrams, is a specialist in the history and philosophy of science. Together they deliver this motivational TEDx talk, which calls for a cosmological, Big History perspective as a means to solving some of our most difficult problems as a society. When it comes to futurists, there are pessimists and there are enthusiasts. Jason Silva brings a new meaning to the latter. What knowledge of science, culture and civilization would you most want to pas* on to the surviving humans as they faced the prospect of