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James Burke's Connections, with each episode showing how one idea sparks a chain of inventions and innovations resulting in something seemingly unrelated severa
by nhebb 15y ago
James Burke's Connections, with each episode showing how one idea sparks a chain of inventions and innovations resulting in something seemingly unrelated several centuries later.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/james-burke-connections/
- aquilax 15y agoGreat documentary. Especially the first season.
- cma 15y agoYou should also check out Bronowski's Ascent of Man, it was made with many of the same people, before Connections. Later, they again worked on Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
- gruseom 15y agoI have a bias against Bronowski from years ago, when I heard him say that man is unique among animals because only man plays, and science is his play. I remember thinking - good lord, man, have you never seen a cat?
- cma 15y agoI had a lot of problems with him in the documentary, especially his dismissals of certain cultures based on extremely sparse data from archeological records. But it was still good overall.