James Burke : Connections, Episode 2, "Death In The Morning", 3 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 2 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 connections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[PaulUmbarger]

Why is 1 of 3 of this episode "private"?

[JamesBurkeWeb]

They should all be private unless I made a mistake... To be un-privated on the 14th.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Ahh, ic. This was one of the ones I privated before I realized that I was going about it the wrong way. That is, I deleted the group label containing those who would have access. So I'll unprivate it

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Okedoke. This episode is once-again available.

[PaulUmbarger]

Hey! Thanks! After watching so many of the other ones and not being able to see this, I was starting to get the shakes! LOL!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

heh. Well ya, episode 1 is a real cliff hanger ;)

[alpha18412]

"4700% profit".

[spotlightman1234]

i hope that wasn't real mercuric oxide!!

[SuperAM711]

A magnificent series ...many thanks

[AstroAnt]

"A well healed society doctor" 

[AstroAnt]

"A Well healed society doctor" I believe his description of a Mr Gilbert is actually a rather potent description of our Mr Burke.

[persianlor]

At 9:04 of this video, James Burke gives out the entire premise of all his Connections Doc's. LOL.