Hidden Links: How Random Historical Events Shaped Our World by Zac Sangeeth & Sangeeth Varghese
Unravelling thread by thread, this book investigates the disproportional effect of historically unconnected and random events like climate changes, imperial pursuits, pandemics, and nomadic migrations on our modern lives in the most unbelievable ways.
@appassionato @bookstodon The very stuff of Connections, by James Burke.
@megatronicthronbanks Still the Gold Standard for edutainment, IMO. (The 1978 one, I mean, although last year’s one is pretty good). @appassionato @bookstodon
@BackFromTheDud@mas.to @appassionato@mastodon.social @bookstodon@a.gup.pe It took forever but I finally tracked down a copy of The Real Thing too. Might have been YouTube!