The Nature of Things
Season 40
199915 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Phallacies
1999-10-04
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E2
How to Live to 100
1999-10-11
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
The Hidden Killer: Portrait of an Epidemic
1999-10-18
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E4
Parkinson's: Lynda's Story
1999-10-25
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
Lost
1999-11-08
We've all felt the terror of being lost - even for just a few moments. We lose our way; a child unexpectedly vanishes in the aisles of a supermarket.
- E6
Designing for Dignity: Engineering Body Parts
1999-11-22
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
Race for the Future
1999-11-29
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- E8
Race for the Future, Part 2
1999-12-06
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
The Sleep Famine
2000-01-24
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E10
Do Parents Matter?
2000-02-07
How much are children influenced by their peers? The documentary Do Parents Matter? examines a controversial concept put forth by Judy Harris, a suburban grandmother and author of the explosive book, The Nurture Assumption.
- E11
Silent Sentinels
2000-02-21
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E12
Wild Goose Chase
2000-02-28
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- E13
Humans: Who are We, Part 1 – The Birth of The Human Mind
2000-03-13
The Birth of The Human Mind takes viewers on an amazing journey back in time, exploring the use of language, tools and how our distant ancestors came to walk. Contrary to long-accepted belief, scientists now believe that Homo sapiens did not evolve from Neanderthals, but shared the earth with them for thousands of years. Our ancestors, the Homo sapiens, are the youngest members on the human family tree, about 150,000 years old. Homo erectus goes back 1.8 million years and Neanderthals about 200,000 years.
- E14
Humans: Who Are We?, Part 2 – The Human Invasion
2000-03-20
Paleoanthropologists, linguists, archeologists and other scientists offer the latest interpretations of fossil findings and genetic studies and posit intriguing theories on how Homo sapiens became the only existing human species. Did we kill off our cousins, interbreed and merge with them, or did they just die out? It took five million years for an upright ape to evolve into an agile, quick-thinking and inventive human being. But once our ancestors emerged in Africa, were we destined to dominate the globe?
- E15
Weather: Dragons of Chaos
2000-03-27
The nature of weather is so complex that it is really a system of chaos. Weather is often benign, but occasionally the chaos spawns fierce dragons. Severe weather - violent storms, floods and droughts - is largely beyond human control, and can be cruel. Few need reminding of the 1987 tornado that killed 27 people in Edmonton, the flooding of the Saguenay region in 1996 and the Red River in 1997, and the 1998 ice storm in Quebec.