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Monday, February 11, 2008

Nature And Science Lovers Have Other Options Besides The Science Channel and Animal Planet

PBS have some of the best scientific discipline and nature programs. Nature is so full of beauty and information that I larn something new from every episode. This is it's twenty-sixth season, so it have to be great to last that long. The awardings for this show would fill up a gymnasium.

The last programme I watched (last Sunday) was about the parrots of Australia. I was also reading a novel that took topographic point in Commonwealth Of Australia at the time. The Nature programme had so many absorbing species and behaviours that I look forward to it being shown again. When I started reading the book again it referred to the immense wild parrot population of Australia. The programme enriched the book. Some of my favourite Nature programmes were about the oceans. But I've never watched one that didn't fascinate me.

Alan Alda adds wit and a willingness to take part on Scientific American Frontiers. The topics cover every facet of scientific discipline including planetary warming, animate being intelligence, astonishing autos and fuels, past and present submarines, slimming with surgery, robots, and the listing travels on with every new program.

Nova is another large awarding winner. It is a scientific discipline docudrama series that often include history. It, too, covers a broad subject country including health, anthropology, space, disasters, engineering and nature. My favourite episode was "Can Chimps Talk?" Old Age ago I retrieve watching Washo, the first sign language chimp. From later programmes on phosphate buffer solution Iodine learned about Koko, the sign language gorilla. I've kept up with her for years. She have been on the screen of "National Geographic" twice. Her trainer, Dr. Penny Patterson, wrote two children's books about her and she have her ain site:

http://www.koko.org/index.php

Science is a portion of many other programmes on PBS, including Eldritch Science. It's an educational programme for children, but grownups will happen it fascinating, too.

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