The Nature of Things

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  • : 1960
  • : 1046
  • : 14
  • CBC
  • 20
  • Documentary

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31x1
The Green Quiz
Episode overview
03, 1990
Season premiere: This special quiz from The Nature of Things tests viewer's knowledge of the environment, touching on topics ranging from global warming and the population explosion to compost boxes and toxic chemicals in the home.
31x2
Crying Wolf
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10, 1990
The controversial issue of wolf control in Canada.
31x3
Ghana Recycling Car Parts / Yukon Arctic Summer
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17, 1990
Ghana prospers by recycling car parts, and Herschel Island, off the Yukon coast, shelters life during the brief Arctic summer.
31x4
You Must Have Been a Bilingual Baby
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31, 1990
The acquisition of a second long in young children and adults.
31x5
The Bug Man of Ithaca
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07, 1990
A look at Cornell University's Professor Tom Eisner and his study of the insect world.
31x6
A Change of Heart
Episode overview
14, 1990
Documentary about the operation of the heart transplant is not as uncommon before, but that remains a difficult step for both the patient and the doctor. We can follow two patients and .. show full overview
31x7
Chaos, science and the unexpected
Episode overview
21, 1990
Examines what is predictable and what is random in nature, and the state of chaos which is between the two, including fractal geometry.
31x5
The Vietnamese People's Struggle
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28, 1990
The Vietnamese people's struggle to rehabilitate their land after a decade of bombing and herbicides.
31x8
Vietnam - After the Fire
Episode overview
28, 1990
The efforts of the Vietnamese to restore their environment greatly poisoned by the use of various toxic products, such Agent Orange, a high content of dioxin herbicide used during the war with the Americans.
31x9
Haida Gwai: Islands of the People
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12, 1990
Documentary about the Haida people of British Columbia who is desperately trying to preserve its environment against encroachment forestry companies.
31x10
The Sisterhood
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02, 1991
Observation of the social organization of the hyena, in which the female predominates.
31x11
Salt of the Earth
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09, 1991
Reportage on the place of salt in the world.
31x12
The Day of Reckoning
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16, 1991
The importance increasingly great for IT as a tool for dissemination of knowledge.
31x13
The Cholesterol Factor
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30, 1991
Folder on the cholesterol produced Biochemical which, when ingested in large quantities , is a factor binds to coronary heart disease.
31x6
Voices in the Forest
Episode overview
03, 1991
David Suzuki and The Nature of Things take on the powerful forest industry, examining environmentally questionable forestry practices.
31x14
Second Wind
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20, 1991
Susan McKellor profile who suffers from cystic fibrosis, hereditary disease whose gene was recently discovered. Mother of two children and career woman, energy and enthusiasm she has is a source of inspiration for the people around her.
31x15
Here be Dragons
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06, 1991
Documentary about the crocodile that lives in the Serengeti plain on the banks of the Grumeti River, Africa.
31x16
Revolution Down on the Farm
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20, 1991
Documentary about the degradation North-America's Grasslands.
31x17
Putting You in the Pictures / Marmots
Episode overview
27, 1991
PUTTING YOU IN THE PICTURES The story of four Canadian inventors who have developed the IMAX system and its successor, the OMNIMAX. MARMOTS Short documentary on the marmot, an endangered species.

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