James Burke, Science, History, and the Knowledg...

8,299 subscribers

6,116,800 video views

Tomorrow's World Clips 8,361

by JamesBurkeWeb 2 years ago

Featured Playlists

Uploaded videos

381 videos Play all(381)

James Burke : Connections, E01 : "The Trigger Effect" (CC) Episode 1 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. (Note: See "Playlists" above for more shows)

5 videos Play all(5)

James Burke : Connections, E04, "Faith In Numbers" (CC) Episode 4 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. See channel page for purchase options.

5 videos Play all(5)

James Burke : TDTUC, E01 : "The Way We Are" (CC) Episode 1 of James Burke's ground-breaking series "The Day The Universe Changed" which explores the evolution of Western Scientific thought starting from the fall of Rome. (Note: See "Playlists" above for more shows)

5 videos Play all(5)

James Burke : TDTUC, E04 : "Matter Of Fact" (CC) Episode 4 of James Burke's ground-breaking series "The Day The Universe Changed" which explores the evolution of Western Scientific thought starting from the fall of Rome. (Note: See "Playlists" above for more shows)

5 videos Play all(5)

James Burke : Connections, E02 : "Death In The Morning" (CC) 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. See channel page for purchase options.

5 videos Play all(5)

view all

About James Burke, Science, History, and the Knowledge Web

This site's purpose is to promote and discuss the views and ideas of Mr. James Burke through his famous series "The Day The Universe Changed" and "Connections" 1,2,3.

The BEST way to support these shows is to purchase them. Those that can afford it can do so here:

TDTUC ($150): http://www.documentary-video.com/items.cfm?id=1303

Connections ($150): http://www.documentary-video.com/items.cfm?id=854

[also id=1076 id=1070]

The more sales of these shows resulting from views of this channel the better the chance it will remain online forever.

It's up to us to credit those who have done so much to enrich our lives: Mr. Burke, the BBC and their distributors.

James Burke : Science historian, author, and creator of the Knowledge Web project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29

I also urge you to get involved with the Knowledge Web project: http://k-web.org/

less

Created by

JamesBurkeWeb

Latest Activity

May 16, 2010

Date Joined

Jan 12, 2009

About this user

Fun Stuff:
=======
An Independent Student-based Group called NSIT (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology) has posted FREE Science Lectures right here: http://lectures.nsitlounge.in/

You can learn about Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Listen to Richard Feynman and a lot more!

Free Books on Advanced Mathematics:
==============================
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php

Other links to do with Mr. Burke or his shows:
=================================
An audio interview (or Podcast) with Mr. Burke on the talk show "Stranova".

http://www.stranova.com/Podcasts/Stranova25.mp3

Re-Connections:
============
A link to the product which the current implementation of k-web is based on: "The Brain".

http://www.thebrain.com/

After The Warming:
==============
1. http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~gsd/resources/courses/Roemmich%20and%20McGowan%20(1995).pdf
2. http://cns.utexas.edu/communications/File/AnnRev-CCimpacts2006.pdf
3. http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~wfcon470/Perry%20et%20al%2005.pdf

The Neuron Suite:
=============
1. A comparative study entitled "Intermittent vs Continuous Levodopa Administration in Patients With Advanced Parkinson Disease" by Fabrizio Stocchi, MD, PhD; Laura Vacca, MD, PhD; Stefano Ruggieri, MD; C. Warren Olanow, MD.
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/62/6/905
2. (GABA) A scientific article entitled "Oxygen uptake occurs faster than sodium pumping in bee retina after a light flash"
http://www.culturaapicola.com.ar/apuntes/anatomia/25_sodium_retina.pdf
3. An article entitled "The Link between Brain Learning, Attention" by Stephen Grossberg of Boston University.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.73.1700&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Apollo & Rocket science:
==================
1. The original report by Richard Feynman to the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (1986).
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~aae519/columbialoss/feynman-rogersrpt-app-f.pdf
2. The wikipedia entry on the "Saturn V" rocket; the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status from a height, weight and payload standpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V
3. Some links to high-definition videos of the Apollo 11 launch amongst other things.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio/

C1E05 (fragment for water clock):
========================
1. The fragment from which Burke and crew built their water clock:
http://www.eduardfarre.com/pdf/EFarre_CatalanClepsydra.pdf
2. A chapter from "The Journal of the Gulf Heart Association" (Vol. 4 Nº. 2 June - August 2003, pg.37) entitled "Arab roots of European Medicine" by David W. Tschanz, MSPH, PhD.
http://www.gulfheart.org/magazine/H.V._VOL.4_2_SUMMER_2003.pdf#page=37

TDTUC E02:
=========
1. A detailed look at Aristotle's logic "The Organon" (or "Instrument") from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/
2. A link to a detailed look at the history and teachings of Augustine [more commonly "St. Augustine of Hippo"] from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

TDTUC E04:
=========
1. A link to a Wikipedia article on Martin Luther (1483 to 1546), the founder of "Protestantism".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther
2. A short article entitled "Authentic Performance of Troubadour Melodies" by Cory McKay of the Departments of Music and Computer Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~cmckay/papers/musicology/TroubadourMelodies.pdf

Episodes including Special Relativity:
===========================

1. The original publication of the results of the Michelson Morley experiment, published in "The American Journal of Science". Probably the most famous "negative" result ever published.
http://www.aip.org/history/gap/PDF/michelson.pdf
2. Einstein's famous paper where he introduces the concept of Special Relativity, originally published in 1905 in the German scientific journal "Annalen der Physik" (17, 891) and translated by Perrett and Jeffery, edited by John Walker of "Fourmilab".
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
3. Bending Spacetime in the Basement:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/
4. Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy content? (e=mc²):
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/
5. A "Physical Review" article co-authored by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen published in 1935 concerning the famous "Einstein-Rosen Bridge", better known as "Wormholes".
http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~zajc/acad/W3072/EinsteinWormhole.pdf

Age

Hometown

Phnom Penh

Country

Canada

less