James Burke Connections Top Documentary Films. Connections explores an Alternative View of Change the subtitle of the series that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation. Rather, the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own e. The interplay of the results of these isolated events is what drives history and innovation, and is also the main focus of the series and its sequels. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past usually Ancient or Medieval times and traces the path from that event through a series of seemingly unrelated connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world. For example, The Long Chain episode traces the invention of plastics from the development of the fluyt, a type of Dutch cargo ship. Connections 1. 97. The Trigger Effect details the worlds present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1. Death in the Morning examines the standardization of precious metal with the touchstone in the ancient world. Distant Voices suggests that telecommunications exist because Normans had stirrups for horse riding which in turn led them to further advancements in warfare. Faith in Numbers examines the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance from the perspective of how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death influenced cultural development. The Wheel of Fortune traces astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts from Baghdads founder, Caliph Al Mansur, via the Muslim monasterymedical school at Gundeshapur, to the medieval Churchs need for alarm clocks the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock. Thunder in the Skies implicates the Little Ice Age ca. AD in the invention of the chimney, as well as knitting, buttons, wainscoting, wall tapestries, wall plastering, glass windows, and the practice of privacy for sleeping and sex. The Long Chain traces the invention of the Fluyt freighter in Holland in the 1. Voyages were insured by Edward Lloyd Lloyds of London if the ships hulls were covered in pitch and tar which came from the colonies until the American Revolution in 1. Eat, Drink and Be Merry begins with plastic, the plastic credit card and the concept of credit then leaps back in time to to the Dukes of Burgundy, which was the first state to use credit. Countdown connects the invention of the movie projector to improvements in castle fortifications caused by the invention and use of the cannon. Yesterday, Tomorrow and You. Watch The Practice Season 3 Episode 14 there. A bit of a recap change causes more change. Start with the plow, you get craftsmen, civilization, irrigation, pottery and writing, mathematics, a calendar to predict floods, empires, and a modern world where change happens so rapidly you cant keep up. Connections 1. 99. James Burke The Day The Universe Changed Science 520 min 7. The Day the Universe Changed is a tenpart documentary. Earth The Climate Wars Environment. Revolutions What do all these things have in common 3 grandfathers lifetimes, 2 revolutions, 1. Cornwall tin mines, water in mines, pumps, steam engines, Watts copier, carbon paper, matches, phosphorus fertilizer, trains and gene pool mixing. Sentimental Journeys What do these have in common Freud, lifestyle crisis, electric shock therapy, hypnotherapy, magnetism, frenology, penology, physiology, synthetic dyes, the Bunsen burner, absorption, Fraunhofer lines, astronomical telescopes, chromatic aberrations, and surveying Getting it Together James Burke explains the relationship between hot air balloons and laughing gas, and goes on to surgery, hydraulic water gardens, hydraulic rams, tunneling through the Alps, the Orient Express, nitroglycerin, heart attacks headaches, aspirin, carbolic acid, disinfectant, Mabach Gottlieb Daimler Mercedes, carburetors, and helicopters. Whodunit This episode starts with a billiard ball and ends with a billiard ball. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Lauren Katherine Kiki Jerome is a fictional character from the ABC soap opera General. 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Along the way, Burke examines Georgius Agricolas De Re Metallica, how mining supported war, the role of money, the Spanish Armada, large ships, problems posed by a wood shortage, glass making, coal, plate glass, mirrors, the sextant, barometers. Something for Nothing How do shuttle landings start with the vacuum which was forbidden by the Church Burke takes us on an adventure with barometers, weather forecasting, muddy and blacktop roads, rain runoff, sewage, a cholera epidemic, hygiene, plumbing, ceramics, vacuum pumps, compressed air drills, tunnels in the Alps. Echoes of the Past The past in this case starts with the tea in Dutch ruled India, examines the Japanese tea ceremony, Zen Buddhism, porcelain, the architecture of Florence, Delftware, Wedgwood, Free Masons, secret codes, radio telephones, cosmic background radiation and finally radio astronomy. Watch No Reservations Dailymotion' title='Watch No Reservations Dailymotion' />Photo Finish Another series of discoveries examined by Burke which include Eastmans film Kodak Brownie, the disappearing elephant scare of 1. Machs shock wave, aerodynamics, nuclear bombs. Separate Ways Burke shows how to get from sugar to atomic weapons by two totally independent paths. The first involves African slaves, Abolitionist societies, Sampson Lloyd II, wire, suspension bridges, galvanized wire, settlement of the wild West, barbed wire, canned corn, and cadmium. High Times The connection between polyethylene and Big Ben is a few degrees of separation, so lets recount them polyethylene, radar, soap, artificial dyes, color perception, tapestries, far East goods, fake lacquer furniture, search for shorter route to Japan, Hudson in Greenland, the discovery of plentiful whales. Deja Vu James Burke provides evidence that history does repeat itself by examining the likes of black and white movies, Conquistadors, Peruvian Incas, small pox, settlements that look like Spains cities, the gold abundance ending up in Belgium, Antwerp, colony exploitation, the practice of burying treasure to avoid pirates. New Harmony A dream of utopia is followed from microchips to Singapore, from the transistor to its most important element, germanium, to Ming Vases and cobalt fakes, which contribute to the blue in blue tiles used in special Islamic places, and Mosaics in Byzantium, the donation of Constantine, Portuguese navigation by stars. Hot Pickle Burke starts out in a spice market in Istanbul where you can find hot pickle, recounts the retaking of Istanbul by the Turks in 1. Java, then to zoos, the use of canaries as carbon monoxide detectors. The Big Spin is a California lottery which is basically gambling. From here Burke takes us through Alexander Flemmings chance discovery of penicillin, to Vierschofts observation that contaminated water is related to health, to Schliemanns search for City of Troy, the theft of discovered treasure, and to Vierschofts criminology. Bright Ideas Gin and tonic was invented to combat Malaria in British colonies like Java, which leads us to Geneva where cleanliness is an obsession. Here tonic water was sealed with a disposable bottle cap, and razors became disposable, leading us to Huntsmans steel, invaluable for making clock springs and chronometers. Making Waves a permanent wave in ladies hair is aided by curlers, and this leads us to explore borax, taking us to Switzerland, Johan Sutters scam, and the saw mill, and that means the discovery of gold leading to the 1. California gold rush. Routes Jethro Tull, a sick English lawyer, recuperates sipping wine and contributes the hoe to help fix farming problems. Farm production is not going so well in France, either.