The Nature of Things

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26x1
Susan McKellar / The Sea Otter
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Another visit with cystic fibrosis victim Susan McKellar, and the return of the sea otter.
26x2
Air Craft
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Celebrates the multitude of machines that humans have engineered in order to launch themselves into the air.
26x3
Muscular Fibres / Fish Locomotion
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26x4
Open Heart
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A profile of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. William Bigelow, focusing on the development of early heart surgery procedures.
26x5
Plants and their Preys
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26x6
Doctors Of The Future / Walking / Vortices
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A radically-new form of medical education at Canada's McMaster University is receiving attention and acclaim from around the world. In Doctors of the Future, new doctors and their .. show full overview
26x7
Predicting the Next Earthquake
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26x8
Duck in Danger
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26x9
The New Face of Leprosy
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An update on the ancient disease that still afflicts millions around the world including North America. Progress continues, especially in educational programs designing to aid early diagnosis to stop the disease before it deforms its victims.
26x10
How Alcohol Affects the Body / Ancient Life-forms / The Physics of Archery
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Featured: how alcohol affects the body; ancient life-forms inhabiting the shallow sea that is now the Canadian Rockies; the physics of archery.
26x11
Family of Chimp
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26x12
Great Lakes: Troubled Waters
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26x13
Hearing Things
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26x14
The Earthquake Connection
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26x15
Islands at the Edge
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The Queen Charlotte Islands Cousteau dubbed "Galapagos of America North " is one of the regions the most beautiful in the world . We V found plants that are not nowhere else , and it is experienced by Indians Haida.
26x16
Fragile Harvest
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26x17
The Brain Puzzle
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26x6
Microscopic Plants and Oxygen
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New discoveries that reveal life's dependence on the many microscopic plants responsible for creating most of the world's oxygen are examined.
26x18
Microscopic Plants and Oxygen
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Plankton and phytoplankton.
26x19
The Portrait of William Bigelow
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26x19
The Comet's Return / Cormorants
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Film of O.N.F. explaining what a comet is; The cormorants, these remarkable divers.
26x20
Acid Rains
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An examination of acid rain's destructiveness and possible solutions to the problems it causes.
26x21
McMaster Students
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