James Burke Connections

Mahalo is fun work, fun enough so that even in my spare time I find ways to continue working on the site. Tonight we decided to get into some James Burke and flipped it over to Connections, not long ago we built pages for "The Day the Universe Changed" each episode is broken down minute by minute so that you can get links to each important historical place, name and event that James Burke mentions in the series. The Pages were such a success James Burke himself emailed me his approval.

Well we started over with Connections.

Here is Part 3 of Episode one, which is just a quick example of what you get with these episode guides. It's going to be a great series and I hope you follow along.

Names and Events in Part Three

• @0:57: After about 90 minutes stuck on a dark subway panic begun.
• @2:35: The next day, the power was back on, and everything went back to normal.
• @4:00: James Burke describes a hypothetical scenario of what happens when technology fails and society erupts into mayhem.
• @4:30: So you left the city to escape the mayhem, now what?
• Do you know where to go in order to survive?
• Do you have a map?
• How do you get out? Walk? Drive until you run out of fuel?
• Have you considered the millions of people behind you, also trying to survive?
• Can you protect yourself?
• Did you bring enough food and water?
• Where will you get it? steal it?
• @5:49: The best place to find in this situation would be a farm.
• @7:24: Yet everything on the modern farm needs electricity.
• @9:10: If you're lucky, you may find a basic plow, but once challenged to use it, the average person may realize how much they depend on technology.
• @9:35: It was the plow that triggered the modern technological revolution.

Lots important names and events have yet to be Archived on Mahalo, so while we go through we'll at least get some of those pages started and in the system. For example above the link to "Survival Skills" is not a full Mahalo page yet, however its a term we certainly can build a page for. Another example is in part 4, Burke introduces us to the Step Pyramid of Djoser. Hardly a popular search term, but a fascinating piece of this world, I am sure there are lots of great links out there. Anyway.. I'll keep you posted, these pages take a lot of time to build and the power of two of us, so stay tuned.