The Nature of Things

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The Bear Man of Kamchatka
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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.
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Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution
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18, 2007
Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.
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Weather Report
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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.
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Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
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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.
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The Man with the Golden Cells
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08, 2007
The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.
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Rail Renaissance, LHC: to the Heart of Matter, Suzuki Nation
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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
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Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future
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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.
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Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City
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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.
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Counterfeit Drugs / Lunokhod / Andrew Ference
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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.
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Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies
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06, 2008
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The Science of the Senses: Hearing
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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.
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The Science of the Senses: Touch
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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.
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The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste
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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
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The Science of the Senses: Sight
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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
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Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
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22, 2008
Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.
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Wild China: Shangi-La
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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.
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Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
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29, 2008
Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.
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Wild China: Land of the Panda
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05, 2008
Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.
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Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
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12, 2008
Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.
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Wild China: Tides of Change
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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.
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Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
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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.
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Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate
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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
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Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
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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.
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Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
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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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