The Nature of Things

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Why We Dance
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It may surprise you to learn that you are a dancer. In fact, we are all dancers. This film takes us into the beating heart of why humans simply must dance.
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Carbon: The Unauthorized Biography
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The key element of life on Earth, it has the power to build and destroy.
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Inside the Great Vaccine Race
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The inside story of the high-stakes race to defeat a killer virus and save millions of lives.
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Nature's Big Year
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When humanity hits pause, nature reboots; scientists discover the surprising ways pandemic lock downs affected our planet.
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The Machine That Feels
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The ever-growing and mysterious world of Artificial Intelligence.
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The New Human
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Disappearing tendons? Longer legs? Artificial body parts? What will humans look like in the future?
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Chef Secrets: The Science of Cooking
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The secret ingredient to becoming a better cook? Science! Top chefs and culinary experts explain the chemistry, physics and microbiology of cooking
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Curb Your Carbon
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The easy and effective ways we can all fight climate change ... and turn down the heat.
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In Your Face
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Two eyes, a nose, a mouth. We see faces everywhere and in everything, but what we don’t always appreciate is that our ability to recognize and distinguish faces is a superpower unique to .. show full overview
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Ice and Fire: Tracking Canada's Climate Crisis
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Goodbye backyard ice rinks, mountain glaciers and forest biodiversity: what Canada might lose due to climate change.
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How the Wild Things Sleep
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Unraveling the secrets of the most extreme sleepers of the animal kingdom. Why and how do animals sleep? How do they deal with sleep deprivation? And do animals dream?
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The Teenager and Lost Maya City
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A young Canadian is going on the adventure of a lifetime. He believes he knows the location of a lost Maya city and he’s heading to Mexico to find it.
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The Musical Animal
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We know that humans are a musical species. We sing, we dance, we groove. But are we the only musical species?
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The Science of Success
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Success has little to do with performance, winners and losers are chosen by society. Now, scientists have discovered the secret to predicting success.

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