The Nature of Things - Season 47
Season 47
Network
DatesOct 11, 2007 - Aug 30, 2008
Episodes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 47Episode 1060 min
Edge of Eden - Living with Grizzlies
Jan 6, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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