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The Nature of Things

Season 26 1985 - 1986

  • 1985-10-10T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 15h 45m (21 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.

21 episodes

Season Premiere

1985-10-10T00:00:00Z

26x01 Susan McKellar / The Sea Otter

Season Premiere

26x01 Susan McKellar / The Sea Otter

  • 1985-10-10T00:00:00Z45m

Another visit with cystic fibrosis victim Susan McKellar, and the return of the sea otter.

1985-10-17T00:00:00Z

26x02 Air Craft

26x02 Air Craft

  • 1985-10-17T00:00:00Z45m

Celebrates the multitude of machines that humans have engineered in order to launch themselves into the air.

1985-10-31T01:00:00Z

26x04 Open Heart

26x04 Open Heart

  • 1985-10-31T01:00:00Z45m

A profile of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. William Bigelow, focusing on the development of early heart surgery procedures.

1985-11-07T01:00:00Z

26x05 Plants and their Preys

26x05 Plants and their Preys

  • 1985-11-07T01:00:00Z45m

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 teachers discuss the process of educating a physician. Also, "Walking" - like a pendulum in motion is how some physicists describe this energy-efficient method of moving the human body. And. "Vortices" - they're everywhere, from the clouds to the bathtub. Vortices explores how and why a vortex is formed.

1985-11-28T01:00:00Z

26x08 Duck in Danger

26x08 Duck in Danger

  • 1985-11-28T01:00:00Z45m

1985-12-05T01:00:00Z

26x09 The New Face of Leprosy

26x09 The New Face of Leprosy

  • 1985-12-05T01:00:00Z45m

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.

Featured: how alcohol affects the body; ancient life-forms inhabiting the shallow sea that is now the Canadian Rockies; the physics of archery.

1985-12-19T01:00:00Z

26x11 Family of Chimp

26x11 Family of Chimp

  • 1985-12-19T01:00:00Z45m

1986-01-16T01:00:00Z

26x13 Hearing Things

26x13 Hearing Things

  • 1986-01-16T01:00:00Z45m

26x14 The Earthquake Connection

  • 1986-01-23T01:00:00Z45m

1986-01-30T01:00:00Z

26x15 Islands at the Edge

26x15 Islands at the Edge

  • 1986-01-30T01:00:00Z45m

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.

1986-02-06T01:00:00Z

26x16 Fragile Harvest

26x16 Fragile Harvest

  • 1986-02-06T01:00:00Z45m

1986-02-20T01:00:00Z

26x17 The Brain Puzzle

26x17 The Brain Puzzle

  • 1986-02-20T01:00:00Z45m

Plankton and phytoplankton.

Film of O.N.F. explaining what a comet is; The cormorants, these remarkable divers.

1986-03-13T01:00:00Z

26x20 Acid Rains

26x20 Acid Rains

  • 1986-03-13T01:00:00Z45m

An examination of acid rain's destructiveness and possible solutions to the problems it causes.

1986-03-24T01:00:00Z

26x21 McMaster Students

26x21 McMaster Students

  • 1986-03-24T01:00:00Z45m
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