BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 13: The Big Spin - Season 2
BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 13: The Big Spin - Season 2
AVI/DivX MPEG-4 1162.0 kbps | 576x432, 30 fps | MP3, 48 kHz, 117 kbps | English | 22:03 | 209 Mb
AVI/DivX MPEG-4 1162.0 kbps | 576x432, 30 fps | MP3, 48 kHz, 117 kbps | English | 22:03 | 209 Mb
Connections is a documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected way to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. The series was noted for Burke's crisp and enthusiastic presentation (and dry humour), historical re-enactments, and intricate working models.
Episode 13: "The Big Spin" - it's what California's lottery TV show is called. And lottery being a game of chance, from here Burke takes us through Alexander Flemming's chance discovery of penicillin, to Rudolf Virchow's observation that contaminated water is related to health, to Schliemann's search for the City of Troy, the theft of a discovered treasure, and to Virchow's criminology. From there we proceed to anthropology, the classification of life forms, Francis Bacon, the statistics of mortality, life expectancy, statistical math, Priestley's carbonated water, the soda fountain, petroleum oil, some French fossil hunters, seismology, and impossible-to-predict earthquakes.
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BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 13: The Big Spin - Season 2
BBC - Connections (1994) - Episode 13: The Big Spin - Season 2
Season 1:
Episode 1: The Trigger Effect
Episode 2: Death in the Morning
Episode 3: Distant Voices
Episode 4: Faith In Numbers
Episode 5: The Wheel of Fortune
Episode 6: Thunder in the Skies
Episode 7: The Long Chain
Episode 8: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Episode 9: Countdown
Episode 10: Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
Season 2:
Episode 1: Revolutions
Episode 2: Flexible Response
Episode 3: Getting it Together
Episode 4: Whodunit
Episode 5: Something for Nothing
Episode 6: Echoes of the Past
Episode 7: Photo Finish
Episode 8: Separate Ways
Episode 9: High Times
Episode 10: Deja Vu
Episode 11: New Harmony
Episode 12: Hot Pickle