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The Nature of Things

Season 43 2002 - 2003

  • 2002-10-18T00:00:00Z 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

2002-10-18T00:00:00Z

43x01 Up Close and Toxic

Season Premiere

43x01 Up Close and Toxic

  • 2002-10-18T00:00:00Z45m

Indoor pollutants that can be found close at hand.

Operation Migration leads a flock of whooping cranes on an ultralight-led journey from Wisconsin to Florida.

2002-11-01T01:00:00Z

43x03 A Madman's Journal

43x03 A Madman's Journal

  • 2002-11-01T01:00:00Z45m

Men and women who have clinical depression discuss their experiences about the misunderstood illness.

Researchers seek benign, sustainable ways to meet people's needs for food, materials, medicine and energy.

Biomimics conduct research to uncover insights on how life occurs.

Interviews with past hosts accompany clips of 43 years of the show.

2003-01-10T01:00:00Z

43x08 A Disease Called Pain

43x08 A Disease Called Pain

  • 2003-01-10T01:00:00Z45m

Researchers question why pain becomes chronic for some people but not others.

Wiki: Jo'burg; A View From the Summit marks the final episode of The Nature of Things 2002/2003 season. The Nature of Things will continue to be repeated on Sundays at 3PM (EST) on CBC.

A couple in northern Quebec who have opened a shelter for injured wild animals that cannot be released back into the wild.

Recent discoveries made by the scientific community with respect to the power of hypnosis.

The world's most impressive and inspiring wild landscapes and natural marvels.

2003-06-16T00:00:00Z

43x14 The Navigators (Part I)

43x14 The Navigators (Part I)

  • 2003-06-16T00:00:00Z45m

Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders' exploration and colonization of Terra Australis.

2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

43x15 The Navigators (Part II)

43x15 The Navigators (Part II)

  • 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z45m

Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders' exploration and colonization of Terra Australis.

2003-06-30T00:00:00Z

43x16 S.A.R.S.-The True Story

43x16 S.A.R.S.-The True Story

  • 2003-06-30T00:00:00Z45m

The World Health Organization battles to contain the SARS virus.

2003-08-18T00:00:00Z

43x17 Hotel Heliconia

43x17 Hotel Heliconia

  • 2003-08-18T00:00:00Z45m

The heliconia, an exotic plant which provides a home and food for many creatures in the jungles of Latin America.

2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

43x18 Sea of Snakes

43x18 Sea of Snakes

  • 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z45m

Dr. Bryan Fry takes an up close look at a little know species of snakes known as the ``Niue Sea Krait.''.

The Sayisi Dene people of Tadoule Lake in northern Manitoba are a people with a nomadic history of following and hunting the caribou. In 1956, the federal government forced them to give up their ways and move to Churchill, Manitoba. What followed was many years of hardship, more re-location, and eventually a return to their homeland.

2003-09-15T00:00:00Z

43x20 Moving Sands

43x20 Moving Sands

  • 2003-09-15T00:00:00Z45m

The unlikely epic of 43 km of sand and 500 years of history: Sable Island, off the shores of Nova Scotia.

Easter Island is the most remote inhabited place on our planet. For 1,500 years, this isolation has acted as both a shelter for - and a curse upon - the island's indigenous Rapa Nui people.

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