Connections² (1994)

Revolutions
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January 2, 1994

What do all these things have in common—three grandfathers' lifetimes, two revolutions, 1750 Cornish steam engines for Cornwall's ...Read more

Sentimental Journeys
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January 16, 1994

What do these have in common – Freud, lifestyle crisis, electric shock therapy, hypnotherapy, magnetism, phrenology, penology, phy...Read more

Getting it Together
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February 6, 1994

James Burke explains the relationship between hot air balloons and laughing gas, and goes on to surgery, hydraulic-water gardens, ...Read more

Whodunit?
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February 20, 1994

This episode starts with a billiard ball and ends with a billiard ball. Along the way, Burke examines Georgius Agricola's De Re Me...Read more

Something for Nothing
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March 6, 1994

How do space shuttle landings start with the vacuum which was forbidden by the Church? Burke takes us on an adventure with baromet...Read more

Echoes of the Past
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March 20, 1994

The past in this case starts with the tea in Dutch-ruled India, examines the Japanese tea ceremony, Zen Buddhism, porcelain, the a...Read more

Photo Finish
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April 3, 1994

Another series of discoveries examined by Burke includes Eastman Kodak's Brownie, the disappearing elephant scare of 1867, billiar...Read more

Separate Ways
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April 17, 1994

Burke shows how to get from sugar to atomic weapons by two totally independent paths. The first involves African slaves, Abolition...Read more

High Times
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May 8, 1994

The connection between polyethylene and Big Ben is a few degrees of separation, so let us recount them: polyethylene, radar, soap,...Read more

Deja Vu
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May 22, 1994

James Burke provides evidence that history does repeat itself by examining the likes of black and white movies, conquistadors, Per...Read more

New Harmony
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May 22, 1994

A dream of utopia is followed from microchips to Singapore, from the transistor to its most important element, germanium, to Ming ...Read more

Hot Pickle
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June 5, 1994

Burke starts out in a spice market in Istanbul where you can find hot pickle, recounts the taking of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453,

The Big Spin
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June 5, 1994

The Big Spin is what California's lottery TV show is called. And lottery being a game of chance, from here Burke takes us through ...Read more

Bright Ideas
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June 19, 1994

Gin and tonic was invented to combat malaria in British colonies like

Making Waves
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July 3, 1994

A permanent wave in ladies' hair is aided by curlers, and this leads us to explore borax, taking us to Switzerland, Johann Sutter'...Read more

Routes
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July 17, 1994

Jethro Tull, a sick English lawyer, recuperates sipping wine and contributes the hoe to help fix farming problems. Farm production...Read more

One Word
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July 24, 1994

How one word changed history

Sign Here
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July 31, 1994

Episode 18 of Connections² premiered on July 31, 1994

Better Than the Real Thing
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August 7, 1994

Episode 19 of Connections² premiered on August 7, 1994

Flexible Response
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August 14, 1994

Episode 20 of Connections² premiered on August 14, 1994