Big History

Discover how salt underpins our civilization, launched wars, built monuments and sparked revolutions.

Discover how the horse has become both man's best friend and a revolutionary animal.

Discover how cold weather has affected life throughout history and controls the fate of our species.

Discover how biology and human emotions affect our desire to build gigantic structures.

Discover what makes planet Earth the perfect planet for flight.

Discover the evolution of weaponry and how bat poop and ancient trees shaped the history of weapons.

From the dial pad to the way we write phone numbers, discover the science behind the cellphone.

Discover how mountains make civilization possible despite their extreme environments.

A theory shows how every event through history is connected.

The unseen ways in which the sun impacts human lives and controls reality.

How silver saved democracy, produced the dollar and connected the world.

A narrative of the universe and humanity that uncovers the link between eight critical thresholds on the path from the Big Bang to modern civilisation, peering into the future to see what life-changing thresholds are yet to come.