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Hidden Links: How Random Historical Events Shaped Our World by Zac Sangeeth & Sangeeth Varghese (files.mastodon.social)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@appassionato @bookstodon The very stuff of Connections, by James Burke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@megatronicthronbanks Still the Gold Standard for edutainment, IMO. (The 1978 one, I mean, although last year's one is pretty good). @appassionato @bookstodon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It took forever but I finally tracked down a copy of The Real Thing too. Might have been YouTube!