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dedbutdrmng

Le Sange et dans L'arbre

Jan 27, 2009 13:37

If you haven't seen it then I recommend you pop over to BBC Iplayer and watch 'What Darwin Didn't Know'. It's all stuff you'll be aware of but somehow, seeing it all presented and shown to you in it's whole is absolutely beautiful. It really is, it teared me up the way a bad tv movie does[1]. It is just so very wonderful and amazing and really ( Read more... )

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wibblefish January 27 2009, 14:29:44 UTC

I shall have to go watch it.

did you see the Atenborough article Adam linked

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/27/david-attenborough-science

dedbutdrmng January 27 2009, 14:37:21 UTC

He's wonderful. Together with Steven Fry possibly the greatest living Englishmen at the moment.

tyrell January 27 2009, 15:03:22 UTC

Did the "around the world in 80 faiths" do the australian Wiccan group yet? Apparently they're bizarre as far as average wicca goes, but I'm curious to see how it's presented.

dedbutdrmng January 27 2009, 15:08:40 UTC

See footnote four. Add spooky 'devil' music and incidental string stab for the pentacle. (I believe it is also on Iplayer ATM). The same programme also features some Aborigines who are so obviously distrustful of him that it would be hilarious, if it wasn't so very, very sad.

tyrell January 27 2009, 15:16:26 UTC

*Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*

dedbutdrmng January 27 2009, 15:28:56 UTC

Exactly. the annoying thing is I know I will watch more as the subject is so interesting. I just have to try and ignore PoJ.

vin_petrol January 27 2009, 15:15:00 UTC

Around the World in Eighty Faiths

They should have got Richard Dawkins to do it. That would have been far more fun! :-)

dedbutdrmng January 27 2009, 15:32:23 UTC

Although I am of the 'no god' league and I think mr D. does an excellent job refuting the frothing religious with his own version; he'd be too intrusive too.

It's really fascinating (the 'John Frum' cargo cult who basically worship America were amazing and something I've always wanted to know a bit more about. Not that it bothers with much detail. they were wroth their own hour long programme.).

suebeedoo January 27 2009, 15:20:24 UTC

I watched that last night - it was good wasn't it? I recommend you read Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World by Ann Moyal. As well as being about a very cool animal, it also tells bits of the story of Darwin, and Darwin's rotweiller. It's really good.

Armand Leroi did a similar programme about the evolution of language a couple of years ago - that was good too.

dedbutdrmng January 27 2009, 15:27:34 UTC

I shall put that book on my list.