DOCUMENTARY: Jacob Bronowski’s The Ascent of Man (Week 10)

PREPARE for a close encounter with the most beautiful and profound audiovisual artifact in television history — The Ascent of Man (1973).

Jacob Bronowski’s poetic and crystal clear survey of humanity’s greatest moments of cognitive penetration will leave you flabbergasted. Jacob takes you behind the scenes and relives our greatest intellectual climaxes—from Australopithecus through quantum mechanics—in a way that is impossible to misunderstand.

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How did Mendeleev discover the Periodic Table of elements? What breakthrough even suggested the idea of repetition? What abstractum is being repeated? And what was the metaphysics that allowed Mendeleev to unearth the greatest occult mystery of all time?

Finally, an answer. And the person who will finally make the Table clear is you. In an episode that Carl Sagan called, “The most amazing homespun demonstration of chemical logic I’ve ever witnessed,” you will construct it yourself using index cards.

Here you go: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20o2dw

After your intellectual rebirth, join us THIS THURSDAY as we, together, get revenge on the bane of every high schooler. We will lay bare the hateful Table’s quivering, naked, elfin body under the stinging-bright light of Bronowski’s serpentine intellect.

Having finally understood the Table and the Lego-logic of atomic stickiness, you will forever after be able to see to the bottom of physical nature with ease. It’s there, standing before you, just as plain as the spinning of the minute hand that makes stackable hours.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCov3DtovgIVm11PixUkPHfLZm-_4ijoC

——— STUDY MATERIALS ———

We STRONGLY recommend watching these masterpieces with subtitles ON. Here's how:

1. Download and install a BitTorrent client such as Transmission (https://transmissionbt.com, for Mac) or µ-torrent (https://www.utorrent.com, for Windows).

2. Click this link: https://www1.thepiratebay3.to/torrent/5219825/The_Ascent_of_Man_(BBC2_Documentary)_MP4_M4V_for_smartphones

3. Locate the tiny red magnet icon you will see and click it. This will download all episodes in an “The Ascent of Man” folder.

4. Then click here to download the subtitles: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l991ikDyjtSmb_jMVr9XzZyTW0hsnBrC/view?usp=sharing

5. Put the subtitles in the movies folder and play.

The BOOK is also great: https://1lib.us/book/3844645/d919ad

——— COMING SOON ———

EPISODE #10: World Within World
The story of the periodic table—and of the atom.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20o2dw

EPISODE #11: Knowledge or Certainty
Physics and the clash of the pursuit of absolute vs. imperfect knowledge, and the misgivings of the scientists realizing the terrible outcome of the conflict. Auschwitz. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20ohne

EPISODE #12: Generation upon Generation
The joys of life, sex and genetics—and the dark side of cloning.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5o8iaq

EPISODE #13: The Long Childhood
Bronowski's treatise on the commitment of humanity.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20p9h4