fjnbk's sift by Loewen, regarding another very common historical inaccuracy.

if you don't know where you've been?
you don't know where you're going.

- james burke (paraphrased)

^ i'm afraid it's even worse than that, White.

most of what qualifies as the foundation, of the science of optics, was due to Arabs.

until another cycle of extremist views, on religious law and dogma, corrupted their (and our) science. again.

yet another startling realization from PBS's airing, when i was a kid, of James Burke's 'The Day the Universe Changed'.

http://home.comcast.net/~billotto/Day_Universe_Changed.html#Scientific

more understanding of science and history, per minute, than any other source you will ever find, imho. an absolute requisite.

^ joedirt tossed it up, 5 months later.

http://www.videosift.com/video/James-Burkes-Knowledge-Web-overview

it shows much promise indeed, carl. and if we ever get there, you will have been a great help, to my generation.

james burke, and you, were 2 of my greatest teachers.

funny thing was, i found this on YouTube just now, because a buddy of mine there (gratex) just uploaded a clip talking about it, and linked to this on YT.

i went to sift it, immediately, because i recognized what episode he was talking about, and whaddya know, it was posted by a sifter (dj) and already sifted.

/autoupvote burke

and nothing from Burke ever will, so long as i am made aware of it.

djsunkid has it in his save list. just let me know when.

In reply to this comment by jwray:
I can't believe this isn't promoted to the front yet! We can't let James Bloody Burke expire in the queue!

hello, Gorgonheap

Most Burke clips have already been sifted, I put it in the talk page because to get more additional community involvement.

I am taking preventive steps to ensure even after the clips are taken down they will re-appear..even if I have to get Burks permission. Great to hear m15m ^ - Wrote a short rant while I was in the middle of typing up this post, I am just amazed at how the mind flows when you watch Burke...although Marijuana surely helps, here is what I came up with while watching this clip... I don't any of it really helps in creating a description but hopefully it gets the thought muscles moving...

Burke mentions the importance of the first 7 minutes and how important it is to make quick decisions during the Nuclear age... that reminded me of this particular clip... I know..I know...too easy...but "Connections"... this is one I made during while watching this clip. But it's true, if anything that clip is simply an example of a world leader failing to recognize the importance of the first 7 Minutes.

But this is the reality of the nuclear age. I think the universe did change once the bomb was dropped, a new thought that the world can end abruptly. Also while on that topics, has Bush spoken at black elementary school since 9/11? Why does he spend billions on war at the drop of a hat, then vetoes a program that was aimed to improve the health of children? Shouldn't we all be working together to maybe produce peace during the nuclear age? Although 9/11 warranted a forceful response and America had the support of the world, Bush chose to take war to another level.

If you remember life on September the 10th 2001, you know the Universe has changed dramatically. If not because international terrorism clouds the minds of many with irrational fears, but because within the last 5 years the internet has developed into web 2.0...hear me out. Blogs, Social Networks, youtube, the amount of information available and speed in which we can communicate provides incredible opportunities and challenges, The Internet Grows. Can the internet build a new global conscience and save this planet...from said nuclear annihilation, or global warming, pick your poison, really either way both problems are spiraling out of control, while we all sit around and watch Bill O'Reilly and/or reality shows. Did you hear Bush warned of WWIII? Nifty. Fucking Liberals. We can do better then this right?

Sorry for going on, but this is what Burke does to the imagination, watch the clip...full screen of course...and your mind runs wild, adding links to your thoughts creates new life to this clip. This first clip is mainly an introduction to the series, but you can get an idea of how kick ass this adventure through time is going to be, the Crusades, exploration, minstrels the first media in the 15th century, the beginnings of modern science, beginning of industry, the French revolution, this series will have it all.

Why are we doing this? Why should we watch every James Burke clip and think about them?

We are the pioneers of the Internet, just within the last ten years every piece of information known to man has been turning up online, and we carry the burden of having to sort it all out. Two years ago I started an archive of random internet pages, just that ability to categorize and search landed me a couple online jobs, my 90 year old grandma listened to the radio as a kid, she doesn't understand the what Internet is. Ted Stevens who recently was in charge of regulating the Internet is 84.

20 minutes of writing and researching links is just an appealing way, for me at least, to spend time I would have otherwise spent watching more videos/television, I don't know why but I just feel more active when I'm participating with the media rather then just consuming. Burke just gets me all typee.

Philosophize the clip, I am sure we can come with a description and a boatload of related links that go hand and hand with the clip above.

I was going to be stationed there.

My orders were changed to Hickam, 2 weeks before graduation.

Oh, and I'm a total James Burke freak. He's my intellectual godfather. And I'd be happy to help with any descriptions, forums, etc, from just as much the philosophical angle, as the historic, or technical/scientific. And yeah, I was already a long-time subscriber to that YouTube channel. And I share Fedquip's fear, that they will be taken down...

Thanks!

From the Village Voice:

"Jim Finn's Interkosmos, a retro gust of Communist utopianism, is set to open the New York Underground Film Festival on March 8. A cosmonaut romance set aboard a 1970s East German space mission to colonize the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, Interkosmos weaves together lovingly faked archival footage, charmingly undermotivated musical numbers, propagandistic maxims ("Capitalism is like a kindergarten of boneless children"), stop-motion animation (of a suitably crude GDR-era level), a Teutonic (and vaguely Herzogian) voiceover, and a superb garage-y Kraut-rock score (by Jim Becker and Colleen Burke). Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin"

James Burke is fantastic. He seems just as sharp now -- if not more so -- than he ever was.

Nice find, Fedquip!

I can't believe this isn't promoted to the front yet! We can't let James Bloody Burke expire in the queue!

Thanks djsunkid, this is one of my all time favourite Burke clips

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmund Burke

i feel like a chimp listening to an explanation of evolution! we desperately need more shows and people like Nova and Carl Sagan and James Burke that can explain scientific advances to the layman, but without any activist overtones and without junking it up with pop culture theatrics.