The Annals of Improbable Research

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Universal History Translation Project

Papers, Presentations, Books, and Plays:

  1. "The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less,'' Eric Schulman, 1997, Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, 27
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  3. "The History of the Universe in Two Minutes or Less,'' Eric Schulman, 1997, presented at the Seventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts (invited talk).
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  5. "The History of the Universe in 100 Slides or Less,'' Eric Schulman, 1998, presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (invited talk).
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  7. "The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less Translated Ten Times or More,'' Eric Schulman, 1998, Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, 10.
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  9. ``Historia Universi Utens CC Verba Pauciorve,'' 1998, Aaron Ucko, Eric Schulman, Richard Duffy, and Mark Eichin, Litterae Societatis, Spring/Summer 1998, pg. 5.
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  11. "The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less in 30 Languages or More in Teeny Tiny Type,'' Eric Schulman, Martin Ahermaa, José Manuel N. Azevedo, Daniel M. Berry, Jean-François Blanc, Maurizio Codogno, Thomas Daniell, Francesco De Comite, Matthias Ehrgott, Philip Fourie, Eugenio J. Suárez García, Válas György, Wei-Hwa Huang, Ron Irmay, Shraga Irmay, Stefano Kalb, Jan Kucera, Jorma Louko, Dennis McClain-Furmanski, Rh. Morris, Patrick P. Murphy, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Mari Ratinen, Roberto Soria, Aaron Ucko, Renate A. Wesselingh, Wilson Afonso, Tayfun Akgul, Carlos J. Cristos, Fredrik Mansfeld, Richard Duffy, Mark Eichin, Rui M. Ponte, Fabio Reale, Jody Bar-On, Yael Berry, Eli Biham, Kari Enqvist, Henk Eskes, Jonathan Friedland, Dominik Giel, Eliezer Kantorowitz, Uzzi Ornan, and Vicenç Rullan, 1998, Annals of Improbable Research, Vol. 4, No. 6, 16.
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  13. "A Briefer History of Time," Eric Schulman, 1999, (W. H. Freeman, New York), ISBN 0-7167-3389-7.
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  15. "Nom Begriefnes,'' a farce by Paul Scheuer, which premiered on 12 February 2000 at the Kapuzinertheater in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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  17. "The History of the Universe in 60 Seconds or Less,'' Eric Schulman, 2005, a presentation for the National Science Foundation website.
  1. "Neutronic and Burnup Studies of Accelerator-driven Systems Dedicated to Nuclear Waste Transmutation," Kamil Tuˇcek, Doctoral Thesis, Department of Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2004.


Media Coverage:

"A Gala Night for Weird Science", Wired News, October 10, 1997.

National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation/Science Friday program of November 28, 1997. RealAudio sound file (the history can be found from 05:45 to 08:50, which includes some remarks from Marc Abrahams).

The Canadian Broadcasting Company's Quirks and Quarks program of December 27, 1997. RealAudio sound file (the history can be found from 30:55 to 33:30, which includes some kind words from Bob McDonald).

Public Radio International's The World program of May 21, 1998.

"A history of the universe in 200 words," The Guardian (London, England), August 15, 1998

National Public Radio's Sounds Like Science program of July 31, 1999. RealAudio sound file.

"History of the Universe 101," The Daily Record (Little Rock, AK), January 7, 2000.
 
"Insider: Everything you need to know", Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand), September 29, 2000.

"The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less," The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 6, 2004.

Please let me know if you see, hear, or read additional media coverage about the Universal History.





The history has been used in the following courses

Earth Systems 110, "The Geosphere,'' Stanford University, Autumn, 1996

Physics 212, "Classical and Modern Physics,'' Bucknell University, Spring, 1997

Astronomy 342, "Life Beyond the Earth,'' The University of Virginia, Summer, 1997

Science 9 and Science 10 taught by Clint Surry, Stelly's Secondary School (Saanichton, British Columbia, Canada), Spring, 1998

Astronomy 124, "Introduction to the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe,'' The University of Virginia, Spring, 1998

Cultural History, Physical Science, and Chemistry I, taught by Kari Rise at Como Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, Spring, 1998.

Astronomy 101, "Introduction to Astronomy,'' The University of Alabama, Spring, 1998.

Astronomy 342, "Life Beyond the Earth,'' The University of Virginia, Summer, 1998.

Graduate School of Business 470, "Professional Communication I,'' Queensland University of Technology, Semester 1, 1999.

 History 151, "World History: Voices," University of Hawi`i at Manoa, Fall, 2003.

Astronomy 105, "Stars and Galaxies," Indiana University Bloomington, Spring, 2004.

Astronomy 230, "Extraterrestrial Life," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fall 2005.

Astronomy 201, "Stars and Galaxies," University of Toronto, Winter 2006.

Astronomy 221, "Stars and the Solar System," University of Toronto, Fall 2006.

Please do use this piece in your classes, just let me know about it.

 





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Comments

``Very Good!'' --Sylvia Benatar, sylbenat@ct-pop.iafrica.com

``Great posting.'' --John Bowe, bowe@osf.org

``My, what an ego- techno- americo- specio- terro- galacto- CENTRIC history.'' --Jeff Mallatt, jjm@codewell.com

``The composition has poor paragraph structure, and is perhaps a bit wordy. Too many of the words used end in -ation or -ion, which outside of the field of rap music is considered less than pleasing.'' -- Paul S. Boyer, boyer@alpha.fdu.edu

``It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.'' -- Steve Berlin, useless@go2net.com

``All the words are spelled correctly.'' --Bill Wendling, wendling@alexandria.isdn.uiuc.edu

``I have read the article and found it very interesting, succinct, informative.'' --Igor Urbiha, urbiha@math.hr

``Speaking as a sesquipedalian writer, I applaud the precision and concision with which you have summarized several billion years. It's a great article!'' --Joseph Goodman, peripatetic@mindspring.com

``Your History of the Universe shows explicitly what is limited about the contemporary scientific vision. It is one that has implicit empirical philosophical metaphysics stamped all over it without including this fact in it.'' --Xochi Basmati, logos@datablast.net

PlanetClick's Click of the Day for Oct 14, 1999 ``We at PlanetClick are thoroughly entertained by your 'History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less,' and today we made your historical site PlanetClick's Click of the Day.'' (October 4, 1999)
 

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