The Nature of Things - Season 47

The Nature of Things - Season 47

Season 47

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DatesOct 11, 2007 - Aug 30, 2008
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Episodes

The Bear Man of Kamchatka
Season 47Episode 160 min

The Bear Man of Kamchatka

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.
Oct 11, 2007
Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution
Season 47Episode 260 min

Living Forever: The Longevity Revolution

Explorer the ongoing quest to extend human life, the cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries.
Oct 18, 2007
Weather Report
Season 47Episode 360 min

Weather Report

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.
Oct 25, 2007
Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
Season 47Episode 460 min

Game Over: Conservation in Kenya

Explore the impact of both colonial and contemporary initiatives in Kenya and how they affect the peoples who have traditionally lived off the land.
Nov 1, 2007
The Man with the Golden Cells
Season 47Episode 560 min

The Man with the Golden Cells

The emerging world market in living cells, where an individual's genes can be bought and sold as commodities.
Nov 8, 2007
Rail Renaissance, LHC: To the Heart of Matter, Suzuki Nation
Season 47Episode 660 min

Rail Renaissance, LHC: To the Heart of Matter, Suzuki Nation

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 sophisticated machine ever constructed by science. And an interview with musician and environmentalist, Sarah Harmer.
Nov 15, 2007
Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future
Season 47Episode 760 min

Climate Change I: An Uncertain Future

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.
Nov 22, 2007
Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City
Season 47Episode 860 min

Climate Change II: Hot Times in the City

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.
Nov 29, 2007
Counterfeit Drugs / Lunokhod / Andrew Ference
Season 47Episode 960 min

Counterfeit Drugs / Lunokhod / Andrew Ference

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.
Dec 6, 2007
Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies
Season 47Episode 1060 min

Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies

Jan 6, 2008
The Science of the Senses: Hearing
Season 47Episode 1160 min

The Science of the Senses: Hearing

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.
Jan 10, 2008
The Science of the Senses: Touch
Season 47Episode 1260 min

The Science of the Senses: Touch

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.
Jan 17, 2008
The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste
Season 47Episode 1360 min

The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste

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 dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.
Jan 24, 2008
The Science of the Senses: Sight
Season 47Episode 1460 min

The Science of the Senses: Sight

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 decoded by our brain - the domain of "visual perception". The act of "seeing" takes an immense amount of brainpower, more than 65% of the brain's neural pathways.
Jan 31, 2008
Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
Season 47Episode 1560 min

Wild China: Heart of the Dragon

Explores how China's 1.3 billion people interact with their extraordinary wildlife and landscapes.
Jun 22, 2008
Wild China: Shangi-La
Season 47Episode 1660 min

Wild China: Shangi-La

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.
Jun 28, 2008
Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
Season 47Episode 1760 min

Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau

Explore the vast windswept wilderness in one of the world's most remote places - the size of Western Europe.
Jun 29, 2008
Wild China: Land of the Panda
Season 47Episode 1860 min

Wild China: Land of the Panda

Travel across China's heartland where its Han people are the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization.
Jul 5, 2008
Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
Season 47Episode 1960 min

Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall

Warrior nomads, bizarre wildlife and extreme weather conditions are found beyond the Wall, built by China's emperors.
Jul 12, 2008
Wild China: Tides of Change
Season 47Episode 2060 min

Wild China: Tides of Change

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.
Jul 13, 2008
Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
Season 47Episode 2160 min

Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge

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.
Jul 20, 2008
Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate
Season 47Episode 2260 min

Antarctic Mission: Window on a Changing Climate

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 increased snowfall - one of the unexpected consequences of a warmer climate.
Jul 27, 2008
Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
Season 47Episode 2360 min

Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice

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.
Aug 3, 2008
Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
Season 47Episode 2460 min

Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent

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.
Aug 30, 2008

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