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The Nature of Things

Season 54 2014 - 2015

  • 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 17h 15m (23 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.

23 episodes

Season Premiere

2014-10-10T00:00:00Z

54x01 Stonehenge Uncovered

Season Premiere

54x01 Stonehenge Uncovered

  • 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z45m

The biggest archaeological survey ever conducted of the Stonehenge landscape finds new evidence of a lost civilization.

2014-10-17T00:00:00Z

54x02 Gorilla Doctors

54x02 Gorilla Doctors

  • 2014-10-17T00:00:00Z45m

A team of veterinarians provide extreme medical care to save the wild mountain gorillas of Africa from extinction.

2014-10-24T00:00:00Z

54x03 Dreams of the Future

54x03 Dreams of the Future

  • 2014-10-24T00:00:00Z45m

Dr. Jennifer Gardy explores current scientific research that will impact us all in the future looking at everything from 3D printing body parts to driverless car and tree cloning.

2014-10-31T00:00:00Z

54x04 The Cholesterol Question

54x04 The Cholesterol Question

  • 2014-10-31T00:00:00Z45m

If high cholesterol equals heart attacks, why do half of the victims have “normal” levels?

2014-11-07T01:00:00Z

54x05 Decoding Desire

54x05 Decoding Desire

  • 2014-11-07T01:00:00Z45m

From preening peacocks to promiscuous primates, what do animals reveal about our own sexual behaviour? Explore how sexual diversity and the experience of pleasure itself may be the key to species survival.

Season Finale

2014-11-14T01:00:00Z

54x06 Chasing Snowflakes

Season Finale

54x06 Chasing Snowflakes

  • 2014-11-14T01:00:00Z45m

Scientists are unraveling the delicate mysteries of the snowflake. And what they’re learning is amazing.

A look at the often misunderstood pigeon, big city birds maligned with a low rent reputation of their intelligence.

2014-11-28T01:00:00Z

54x08 Two of a Kind

54x08 Two of a Kind

  • 2014-11-28T01:00:00Z45m

Director Leora Eisen asks why her identical twin was diagnosed with leukemia and she wasn't. A look at how twins are solving medical mysteries as researchers examine the differences between them.

Jennifer Gardy takes an extraordinary scientific journey to put food claims to the test and discover if they’re science fact or science fiction.

Despite that cats are the most-popular pet in the world, very little is known about them.

2015-01-30T01:00:00Z

54x11 Mystery of the Monsoon

54x11 Mystery of the Monsoon

  • 2015-01-30T01:00:00Z45m

A look at the vast season weather system that permeates and unifies India, shaping the conditions of existence for its billion-plus inhabitants.

2015-02-06T01:00:00Z

54x12 The Kung Fu Meerkats

54x12 The Kung Fu Meerkats

  • 2015-02-06T01:00:00Z45m

A close-up look at a family of meerkats faced with surviving some of Africa's toughest drought conditions in the Kalahari desert.

Like other kinds of human who once shared our world, Homo sapiens should have died away. Discover how our species faced near extinction in Africa, and then found a place to rebuild. Explore the birth of language and art at archeological excavations scientists are now calling “the cradle of the human mind”.

How did we become our planet’s only global species, at home in every environment on Earth. Learn how our ancestors found a way through the deserts and out of Africa. Explore the meeting of Neanderthals and humans. And discover how we survived the Ice Age.

Early humans eventually colonized Australia, the South Pacific, and the Americas. But how did our ancestors master the oceans? Learn how new discoveries in ancient DNA research are changing our understanding of the earliest sea voyages, from Easter Island to the Bering Strait.

2015-03-06T01:00:00Z

54x16 The Antibiotic Hunters

54x16 The Antibiotic Hunters

  • 2015-03-06T01:00:00Z45m

Increasing resistance to antibiotics has been called “the most pressing global health problem of our time”. A new documentary travels to an ocean reef, a rainforest canopy, a frigid cave and even the mouth of a giant lizard – all in the urgent search for new antibiotics.

2015-03-13T00:00:00Z

54x17 Safe Haven for Chimps

54x17 Safe Haven for Chimps

  • 2015-03-13T00:00:00Z45m

The touching story of how some very special chimpanzees find sanctuary and a new family when they are retired from a life in the lab.

2015-03-20T00:00:00Z

54x18 SongbirdSOS

54x18 SongbirdSOS

  • 2015-03-20T00:00:00Z45m

'It seems inconceivable that we have lost almost half the songbirds that filled our skies only 40 years ago. SongbirdSOS takes a journey with the birds to discover why this is happening and what we can do about it.

2015-03-27T00:00:00Z

54x19 Spirit Bear Family

54x19 Spirit Bear Family

  • 2015-03-27T00:00:00Z45m

Canada’s top nature documentarians spend a season with the fabled Spirit Bear of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest, capturing a mother spirit bear and her cubs.

2015-04-03T00:00:00Z

54x20 Jellyfish Rule!

54x20 Jellyfish Rule!

  • 2015-04-03T00:00:00Z45m

No brains, no backbone, no problem! 600 million years ago jellyfish ruled the oceans. Now these mysterious and magnificent creatures may be taking over the oceans once again. Only this time, they’re doing it with our help.

2015-04-10T00:00:00Z

54x21 Franklin’s Lost Ships

54x21 Franklin’s Lost Ships

  • 2015-04-10T00:00:00Z45m

Last summer, 170 years after it left England, one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus, was found in the Canadian Arctic. Our cameras were on board to witness this extraordinary underwater

2015-04-03T00:00:00Z

54x22 Jellyfish Rule!

54x22 Jellyfish Rule!

  • 2015-04-03T00:00:00Z45m

No brains, no backbone, no problem! 600 million years ago jellyfish ruled the oceans. Now these mysterious and magnificent creatures may be taking over the oceans once again. Only this time, they’re doing it with our help.

2015-04-10T00:00:00Z

54x23 Franklin’s Lost Ships

54x23 Franklin’s Lost Ships

  • 2015-04-10T00:00:00Z45m

Last summer, 170 years after it left England, one of Sir John Franklin’s lost ships, HMS Erebus, was found in the Canadian Arctic. Our cameras were on board to witness this extraordinary underwater

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