James Burke : Connections, Episode 3, "Distant Voices", 4 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 3 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 http://k-web.org.

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[CHANNELOMD]

Did you know James Burke is mentioned in a HumanLeague song?

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Who, or what is a "HumanLeague"? A rock band? Never heard of him / her / it / them.

- JBW

P.S. But I am curious.

[CHANNELOMD]

Ha ha you are showing you age ,is suspect you wont like it

watch?v=KCkpueqltSE

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Well it may not be my age necessarily (43 ish), I may simply be out of touch ;)

Still, I'm not crazy about it, but it's not bad!

- Me

[newguy33X]

"There's no such thing as a vacuum" ...thank you so much Catholic church. You've really been a help. Fuck.

[prenduzal]

The most remarkable unremarked aspect of these programs is that James Burke carried the narration completely alone -- there are no interviews with experts or descendants of famous historical figures. He had to talk constantly through each program! He brought it off without ever becoming tedious. Quite an amazing thing really.

[ChorltonBrook]

@DForce0 It's bad but not that bad, the salts and vapours of mercury are worse because they're soluble..

[DForce0]

Did he really stick his hand in a dish of mercury?! Wow! He's going to be mad as a hatter some day.

[oker59]

@newguy33X

Against Heresies (Book II, Chapter 4), The absurdity of the supposed vacuum and defect of the heretics is demonstrated.

You'll find all kinds of things in this guys books like, Jesus Christ was not followed by twelve aeons corresponding to the twelve constellations and so on . . . in other words, he was!

[ryoushii]

@jeselmira2 What he's saying is the place you would have most likely looked for minerals would be in places where it's the easiest to get at them.

After all, people didn't start drilling for oil a thousand feet under water, they started where it was easiest to get at it.

[ryoushii]

@2000deg At the time, the French Catholic Church, was shall we say less than attentive to what the pope had to say.

[KevinByrne2]

8:00 -- The music is "Le boeuf sur le toit" (The ox on the roof) by French composer Darius Milhaud.

[2000deg]

If it were true that the church had forbidden to speak about vacuum than Blaise Pascal, a devout Catholic, wouldnt have spoken about it.

[jeselmira2]

He should distinguish between a low pressure zone and a vacuum.

[jeselmira2]

They mined in the mountain valleys because of lumber and water power? I thought it was because that was where the silver was found.