Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually ancient or medieval) and traces a path from that event through a series of connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world.
The trigger effect
Death in the morning
Distant voices
Faith in numbers
The wheel of fortune
Thunder in the skies
The long chain
Eat, drink, and be merry
Countdown
Yesterday, tomorrow, and you
Revolutions
Sentimental journeys
Getting it together
Whodunit?
Something for nothing
Echoes of the past
Photo finish
Separate ways
High times
Deja vu
New harmony
Hot pickle
The big spin
Bright ideas
Making waves
Routes
One word
Sign here
Better than the real thing
Flexible response
Feedback
What's in a name
Drop the apple
An invisible object
Life is no picnic
Elementary stuff
A special place
Fire from the sky
Hit the water
In touch
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