Big History And Pedagogy
A persuasion for infusing Big History perspective to the restricted and specialised way in which we study things.
Dr. Shankar Kumar 03 July 2021, Last Updated at 12:33 pm Representational Image outlookindia.com 2021-07-03T12:33:40+05:30
A three-minute viral video, of 2012 Google copyright, telescopes a young lady ‘Louise’ from a close shot to a distance of 10 billion Light-years away up to the Uniform Universe. In the latter half of the video, the telescoping is replaced by micro-scoping in reverse, piercing through her pupil, wading across cells and chromosomes to offer dilated images in the smallest units of measurement. The Sahir Ludhianvi-penned background song, probably inserted for the Indian audience, philosophises the ‘smallness’ and transient nature of individual human existence in this vast Universe. The irreverent ease, with which it frames the farthest, fathoms the minutest and treats the human body as n