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Aristotle's Lagoon

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Aristotle's Lagoon is a one-off TV documentary presented by eminent biologist Armand Leroi. He traces Aristotle's self-exile to the Greek island of Lesvos. Leroi explores how Aristotle founded the modern scientific field of biology. He points out that although scientists and Aristotle have not always been in agreement, Aristotle made discoveries that were ignored till centuries later.

Otherwise you end up with people like myself who think it's some previously unknown philosophical theory of Aristotle.
 
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Otherwise you end up with people like myself who think it's some previously unknown philosophical theory of Aristotle.


You are quite correct - my fault on that one.

In my defence. Rarely am I blown away by TV nowadays, and last night was an exception.

Reminded me of the feelings I used to have from, for example, Horizon back in the late 70's early 80's - a WOW moment.

That, and a lovely Rioja, led to my lazy excitable post.
 
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No problem Belgian thought, we've all made that mistake when we've found something new and cool that we want to share.

Just remember that woos come on here all the time yelling "look at my youtube video" and wasting people's time with unintelligible ramblings. I just wanted to make sure that people knew that this was not one of those cases but instead something genuinely cool.
 
The BBC has indeed put out some great stuff recently. Some of the Tudor history has been very good, the reconstruction of a Jane Austen-era ball was good, some great stuff on Ancient Egypt also. Really remarkable. Than goodness for the Beeb :)
 
And soon there's going to be a beautiful programme about porcelain... sounds dull until you see the trailer: absolutely fantastically beautiful objects they have on film!

Last night BBC 4 had a whole evening of brilliant science and maths programmes. We are so lucky they thought of that license fee method of financing the BBC.


PS Had to look it up: Beautiful Thing: A Passion For Porcelain will be on BBC 4 on tuesday 18 June at 21:00.
 
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