The Nature of Things

  • Premiered: Nov 1960
  • Episodes: 1046
  • Followers: 14
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  • Thursday at 20
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Season 47
47x1
The Bear Man of Kamchatka
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 2007
Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russian zoo and secrets them away to his home in the remote wilds of the South Kamchatka peninsula, in the former Soviet Union.
47x2
Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution
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Oct 18, 2007
Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.
47x3
Weather Report
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Air date
Oct 25, 2007
Climate change is irrevocably altering the world as we know it, challenging our sense of the future and the fundamental values of our industrial societies.
47x4
Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
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Air date
Nov 01, 2007
Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.
47x5
The Man with the Golden Cells
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Nov 08, 2007
The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.
47x6
Rail Renaissance, LHC: to the Heart of Matter, Suzuki Nation
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Nov 15, 2007
Witness the exciting lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service out of St. Pancras Station, in London. A look at the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most .. show full overview
47x7
Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future
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Air date
Nov 22, 2007
Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.
47x8
Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City
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Air date
Nov 29, 2007
Hot Times in the City takes the pulse of three major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, as they grapple with one of the planet's greatest threats to human health: global warming.
47x9
Counterfeit Drugs / Lunokhod / Andrew Ference
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Dec 06, 2007
A look into the multi-billion dollar underworld of counterfeit drugs, the tale of the Lunokhod a self-propelled robot on the Moon that could be controlled from the Earth and an interview with Boston Bruins' defenseman, Andrew Ference.
47x10
Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies
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Jan 06, 2008
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47x11
The Science of the Senses: Hearing
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Jan 10, 2008
In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche.
47x12
The Science of the Senses: Touch
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Jan 17, 2008
In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors and up into the brain as we explore the hidden language of our most essential sense.
47x13
The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste
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Jan 24, 2008
In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste .. show full overview
47x14
The Science of the Senses: Sight
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Jan 31, 2008
This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters our eyes, to the way this information is transformed into electrical impulses and .. show full overview
47x15
Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
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Jun 22, 2008
Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.
47x16
Wild China: Shangi-La
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Jun 28, 2008
Beneath billowing clouds in China's far southwest, rich jungles nestle below towering peaks and jewel-coloured birds and ancient tribes share forested valleys where wild elephants still roam.
47x17
Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
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Jun 29, 2008
Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.
47x18
Wild China: Land of the Panda
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Jul 05, 2008
Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.
47x19
Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
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Jul 12, 2008
Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.
47x20
Wild China: Tides of Change
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Jul 13, 2008
China's coast is an area of huge contrast-from futuristic modern cities jostling traditional seaweed-thatched villages to ancient tea terraces and wild wetlands where rare animals still survive.
47x21
Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
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Jul 20, 2008
The SEDNA IV sails across the Polar Front, an area where cold turbulent Antarctic waters meet warmer water from the north - one of the earth's last great refuges for wildlife.
47x22
Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate
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Jul 27, 2008
Antarctica's inhabitants are telling us that their world is changing in complex and subtle ways. The once successful colonies of diminutive Adelie penguins are declining because of .. show full overview
47x23
Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
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Aug 03, 2008
A cold and mysterious world that is home to some of the toughest and most unusual creatures on the planet: giant ribbon worms, dragon fish, and ancient sponges.
47x24 Season finale
Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
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Air date
Aug 30, 2008
Follow mission leader Jean Lemire and his crew as they endure 17 months on the expedition to measure the threat posed by global warming in the Antarctic - a place where the Earth is particularly vulnerable.

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