James Burke : Connections, Episode 8, "Eat, Drink and be Merry", 4 of 5 (CC)

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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 http://k-web.org.

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[SuperAM711]

A truly great series...many thanks.

[nabeelmerchant]

@flamehiro without conspiracy theorist the world would be even a more dangerous place. I assume you are comfortable with your life whie they are busting their asses to to save the lower class from debt for life.

[velvetrubies]

Too funny I was there last semester on one of my field trips! Cool place!

[Bohner33]

This has got to be my favorite episode. But then it's so hard to choose. not that I have to.

[Tulipso]

I think Burke is saying "French consul" instead of the captions' "French consort" at around 6'00". Makes more sense to me.

[Tulipso]

Haha, the captions say "jazz" when Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov is playing during the Florida swamp boat ride. I can understand that if you don't know the piece, but even then it's very funny.

[FLTlingit]

Thank God for John Gorrie!

[flamehiro]

: 3 james burke is awesomeness, < < and why so many conspiracy theorists on youtube, -.-

[persianlor]

Has anyone ever noticed how much of Burke's journeys involve malaria...what people thought caused and how to cure it etc.? You never really learn how important that was to European colonization...the fear of dying from an "invisible" disease.

[breathless46]

"Skirting board"... I haven't heard that in a while