Documentaries Tagged “Connections²”
Connections²: Better Than the Real Thing & Flexible Response
Connections²: Better Than the Real Thing & Flexible Response
Better Than the Real Thing & Flexible Response – starts in the 1890′s with bicycles and bloomers and then takes a look at boots, zippers, sewing machines, and infinitesimal difference. Speaking of small, we look at microscopic germs, Polarized light, sugar, coal, iron, micro-bubbles, the spectroscope, night vision, beri-beri resulting ...
Connections²: One Word & Sign Here
Connections²: One Word & Sign Here
One Word & Sign Here – The one word that changed everything was “filioque” but we must make a trip to Constantinople, visit the Renaissance, meet Aldus Manutius of Venice, explore abbreviations, learn about Italic print, which resulted in an overload of books, requiring the development of a cataloging system.
Connections explores an...
Connections²: Making Waves & Routes
Connections²: Making Waves & Routes
Making Waves & Routes – a permanent wave in ladies’ hair is aided by curlers, and this leads us to explore borax, taking us to Switzerland, Johan Sutter’s scam, and the saw mill, and that means the discovery of gold leading to the 1848 California gold rush.
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the seri...
Connections²: The Big Spin & Bright Ideas
Connections²: The Big Spin & Bright Ideas
The Big Spin & Bright Ideas – is a California lottery which is basically gambling. From here Burke takes us through Alexander Flemming’s chance discovery of penicillin, to Vierschoft’s observation that contaminated water is related to health, to Schliemann’s search for City of Troy, the theft of discovered treasure, and to Vierschoft’s...
Connections²: New Harmony & Hot Pickle
Connections²: New Harmony & Hot Pickle
New Harmony & Hot Pickle – A dream of utopia is followed from microchips to Singapore, from the transistor to its most important element, germanium, to Ming Vases and cobalt fakes, which contribute to the blue in blue tiles used in special Islamic places, and Mosaics in Byzantium, the donation of Constantine, Portuguese navigation by s...
Connections²: High Times & Deja Vu
Connections²: High Times & Deja Vu
High Times & Deja Vu – The connection between polyethylene and Big Ben is a few degrees of separation, so let’s recount them: polyethylene, radar, soap, artificial dyes, color perception, tapestries, far East goods, fake lacquer furniture, search for shorter route to Japan, Hudson in Greenland, the discovery of plentiful whales, printi...