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James Burke : Connections, Episode 4, “Faith In Numbers”, 3 of 5 (CC)

  • Posted on August 27, 2011 at 8:12 am

Watch Entire Show: www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com Episode 4 of James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the “connections” between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a “1+1=3″ type of way. It is this type of investigation that is the main idea behind the Knowledge Web project; whereby sophisticated software is used to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See k-web.org. See channel page for purchase options.

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James Burke : Connections, Episode 8, “Eat, Drink and be Merry”, 1 of 5 (CC)

  • Posted on August 26, 2011 at 12:40 am

Watch Entire Show: www.youtube.com More Shows: www.youtube.com Episode 8 of James Burke’s most well-known series “Connections” which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the “connections” between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a “1+1=3″ type of way. It is this type of investigation that is the core idea behind the Knowledge Web project, whereby sophisticated software is being developed to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See k-web.org. Note This clip contains one of Mr. Burke’s most well-known scenes: the famous “rocket takeoff scene” (also mentioned in re-Connections : see playlists) See channel page for purchase options.

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