James Burke : Connections², E1112, 1 of 5 : "New Harmony" & "Hot Pickle"

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Episodes 11 and 12 of James Burke's Connections², which is the first of two sequels to the original Connections series. In this series, Mr. Burke continues his investigations into the interconnectedness of ideas and inventions that, usually serendipitously, led to important changes our modern-day world. The format has changed to 25 minute episodes with each episode less focused and much more free-form. Mr. Burke may take a particular historical figure and then expand on an array of subsequent, and important discoveries or inventions directly, or indirectly resulting from there, or else he may take several origins and show how they ultimately came together resulting in some unexpected consequence (as in Connections 1).

From a K-web point of view, this series may be visually seen as type of random-walk exploration through "connection space" as a child may do on their first visit, perhaps before discovering a particular topic or thread they may wish to pursue in more detail. Visit http://k-web.org for more information.

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[mdiem]

@rentatrip1

Al Gore never said that he invented the Internet. That myth gets repeated quite a lot and it's just silly. It didn't happen.

What he did say was that he took political initiative to get funding for research and development to help create the Internet. Which is true, he did.

[Icix1]

Haha I bet dueling banjos was too expensive

[rentatrip1]

@MartinDHash - agreed - you are correct sir - however the comment seen above states "quote"

built by Justinian , my posted comment indicates the truth that Justinian could not build a building that was established 200 years before Justinian popped out of the womb, how could anyone make such a random nonesense statement - sounds like Gore taking credit for inventing the internet -Criminny GeeZZ

[MartinDHash]

@rentatrip1, if was the center of Christianity from 360 AD until 1453 when the muslims captured it.

[rentatrip1]

@mynameiswhatever -The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1934 it was a MOSQUEE for nearly 500 years - and it was used by islamic fanatics and all christians were either killed or routed out when the islamic terrorists took over the land were it was built - it could not have been built by Justinian because Justinian lived in the 500's and this was built -the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453 - so how could Justinian buld something 200 years before he was born?

[rentatrip1]

@Indrius - ah but it is a crystal like ones used in a crystal am radio - the term was used to describe the action of the crystal , transistor - coined by the man who discovered the idea -

[Indrius]

2:45 no, this is not a transistor. This is not even a diode.

[mynameiswhatever]

Hagia Sophia is not a mosque! It is a church build by Emperor Justinian!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

LOL. WMG kill it?