http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20200726-EV&N-354-Link.html
https://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/725886
In the face of the global crises of climate change and permanent pandemic the human community needs now to forge new narratives of World History.
“We had fed the heart on fantasies;
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare.”
W. B. Yeats, Meditations in Time of Civil War
A pioneering scholar, admired professor and global educator who led the way in establishing the field of “comparative colonial studies” recently died. It is appropriate to reflect on his enduring legacy. This brief presentation is a compilation of thoughts and previous programs on aspects of World History that deserve attention — ever more poignantly as the entire human community now faces a “shelter-in-place” imperative imposed by a virus one billionth the size of an individual human being. Never has the world community been in greater need of a new understanding of World History — a vision of which was championed with great kindness and generosity of heart by Prosser Gifford. See: “One chosen itinerary…”
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- In grateful memory of Prosser Gifford ~Beloved Father, Kind Friend, Teacher, Quiet Leader, & Gentle Giant of World History
- Yale Loses a Prominent African Historian and Compassionate “Gentle Giant”
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
- Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society | MIT News
- Sidney Mintz – (November 16, 1922 – December 27, 2015)1
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And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you’ve had quite enough
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the ‘milky way’
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide
We go ’round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there is
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
‘Cause it’s bugger all down here on Earth.
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