As we watch air travel begin to break down, here is James Burke's "Connections"

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https://vimeo.com/247654145

Series 1, Episode 1, "The Trigger Effect"

Worth thinking on.

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1. Break it down a little for us

time-challenged folks this morning?

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2. Here's my TLDR

Modern consumer society relies on a fantastically complex web of transport, technology, commerce, and communications that no individual in that society completely understand and very few individuals are even really aware of. Disruptions to that network (which, again, no one person entirely understands) can have rapid and catastrophic impacts.

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3. If I'm remembering correctly, this episode has a simple power outage

has a family leaving the city and going out to the country where they have to now live without electricity. It did an excellent job of connecting things (hence the name of the series) in unexpected ways.

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5. Yep

I really think this should be required watching for high school science

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4. that whole series of shows highly recommended nt