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The Nature of Things

Season 42 2001 - 2002

  • 2001-10-03T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 12h 18m (16 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.

16 episodes

Bob thinks but doesn't feel. Christina feels but has trouble thinking. Virginia can neither think or feel as she's pulled down into a spiral of darkness that zaps her very will to survive. Kent lives within a 20-minute time span, unable to remember his past or plan for his future. Each of these people has had an injury to a part of the brain called the frontal lobes and their stories, told in Me, My Brain And I, are helping neuroscientists unravel the mystery of what makes us distinctly human.

2001-10-10T00:00:00Z

42x02 Warnings From The Wild

42x02 Warnings From The Wild

  • 2001-10-10T00:00:00Z45m

All over the planet, temperature increases are affecting wildlife. Some species are spreading to new areas. For others, climate change means extinction. THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents Warnings From The Wild, a documentary that draws together recent evidence of the effects of the biggest climatic upheaval in 10,000 years.

TOUCH - THE FORGOTTEN SENSE is a film about the amazing, but often overlooked sense of touch. The film takes us on an artistic and scientific journey from a woman who has completely lost her sense of touch, to a deaf-blind child that can understand speech through his fingers.

2001-10-24T00:00:00Z

42x04 Psychopaths

42x04 Psychopaths

  • 2001-10-24T00:00:00Z45m

PSYCHOPATHS is a documentary that looks at the understanding of this condition in the scientific community, and what hope there is for treatment, therapy or a cure.

Are our regulatory agencies doing their best to ensure drug safety? Or are they buckling to corporate pressure to market lucrative new drugs before they are adequately tested? These are questions raised in DRUG DEALS: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

2001-11-21T01:00:00Z

42x06 Bioterror

42x06 Bioterror

  • 2001-11-21T01:00:00Z53m

Since the September 11th terrorist attack on The World Trade Center, the news has been saturated with information about a new threat, bio-terrorism. But how new is it? THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents BIOTERROR, an exploration of the past, present and future of bio-terrorism.

2001-11-28T01:00:00Z

42x07 Race Against Time

42x07 Race Against Time

  • 2001-11-28T01:00:00Z45m

It's an epidemic of staggering proportions. Thirty-six million people are infected with the HIV virus worldwide, with over 25 million of them in Africa. More than 21 million people have died of AIDS, nearly 17 million in Africa alone. THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents RACE AGAINST TIME, a film about the greatest challenge of the 21st century and the work of Canadian Stephen Lewis, the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

2001-12-05T01:00:00Z

42x08 Return Of The Peregrine

42x08 Return Of The Peregrine

  • 2001-12-05T01:00:00Z45m

Adept at diving at speeds normally reserved for fighter pilots, the peregrine falcon is the fastest and most widely dispersed creature on the planet. A one-hour documentary, RETURN OF THE PEREGRINE chronicles this majestic bird of prey's journey back from the brink of extinction.

In 2001 the Government of Canada approved the following genetically modified crops for food use: canola, corn, cottonseed, flax, potato, soybean, tomato, wheat, sugar beet and squash. Is enough really known about genetic engineering to ensure that genetically modified (GM) food products are safe for consumption?

2002-01-09T01:00:00Z

42x10 Living Forever

42x10 Living Forever

  • 2002-01-09T01:00:00Z45m

Biologists have seen within our genes the possibility of extending human life spans to 300 years or more. In the 21st century, will scientists reach the Holy Grail? Will they find the secret of eternal youth? THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents LIVING FOREVER, a look at how far scientists have come in discovering the human potential for longevity.

2002-01-23T01:00:00Z

42x11 Self-Experimenters

42x11 Self-Experimenters

  • 2002-01-23T01:00:00Z45m

Most major advances in medicine and science and are made by people who push the envelope. From morphine to cardiac surgery, we owe much to the risks taken by scientists of the past who have experimented on their own bodies to make new discoveries.

2002-03-06T01:00:00Z

42x13 Morphine On Trial

42x13 Morphine On Trial

  • 2002-03-06T01:00:00Z45m

Inventor creates wearable computer technology.

2002-03-20T01:00:00Z

42x15 Wired For Life

42x15 Wired For Life

  • 2002-03-20T01:00:00Z45m

Using pacemaker-like implants, functional electrical stimulation allows people with spinal-cord injuries to reclaim some mobility and even resume pastimes like art and sports.

2002-03-27T01:00:00Z

42x16 Intuition

42x16 Intuition

  • 2002-03-27T01:00:00Z45m

A horse buyer selects her winning choices randomly from a list, using her "gut-feeling." Upon viewing a photo, a businesswoman tells her boss that his wife is expecting a baby. An astronaut communicates telepathically from space with colleagues on earth. These and many other examples of psi-phenomena are examined in the film Intuition.

Season Finale

2002-04-10T00:00:00Z

42x17 Beluga Speaking Across Time

Season Finale

42x17 Beluga Speaking Across Time

  • 2002-04-10T00:00:00Z45m
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