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Episode Detail: Memory: Past Imperfect - The Nature of Things

Human memory and how it's affected by influences, distortion and perception. Included: scientists commenting on long and short-term memory. Also: memory retrieval using drugs and hypnosis.

Episodes: The Nature of Things - 558 total Episodes

4/26/2013: The Man Who Tweeted Earth
4/7/2013: Bugs, Bones & Botany: The Science of Crime
4/5/2013: The Beetles Are Coming
3/29/2013: The Beaver Whisperers
3/22/2013: Billion Dollar Caribou
3/8/2013: Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
2/15/2013: Meet the Coywolf
2/10/2013: Shattered Ground
1/18/2013: Zapped: The Buzz About Mosquitoes
1/11/2013: David Suzuki's Andean Adventure
12/7/2012: Lights Out
11/23/2012: The Norse: An Arctic Mystery
11/16/2012: Planet Hunters
11/9/2012: Nuts About Squirrels
10/26/2012: Babies: Born to Be Good?
10/19/2012: The Buffalo Wolves
8/6/2012: Geologic Journey II: The Western Pacific Rim
7/30/2012: Geologic Journey II: Along the African Rift
4/8/2012: Polar Bears: A Summer Odyssey
3/23/2012: Smarty Plants
3/16/2012: The Perfect Runner
2/24/2012: Journey to the Disaster Zone: Japan 3-11
2/17/2012: The Suzuki Diaries: Future City
2/10/2012: MS Wars: Hope, Science & the Internet
2/3/2012: The American Tiger
1/27/2012: Mysteries of the Animal Mind
1/20/2012: Surviving :) The Teenage Brain
1/13/2012: Programmed to Be Fat
12/9/2011: The Autism Enigma
12/2/2011: Waking the Green Tiger
11/25/2011: Myth or Science
11/18/2011: The Emperor's Lost Harbour
11/11/2011: The Jungle Prescription
10/28/2011: The Nano Revolution: Will Nano Save the Planet?
10/21/2011: The Nano Revolution: More Than Human
10/14/2011: The Nano Revolution: Nano City
3/25/2011: 50 Years of the Nature of Things
3/4/2011: The Real Avatar
2/25/2011: Raccoon Nation
2/11/2011: Return of the Prairie Bandit
2/4/2011: The Last Grizzly
1/28/2011: Tipping Point
1/21/2011: Save My Lake!
1/14/2011: The Codebreakers
12/3/2010: When North Goes South
10/15/2010: For the Love of Elephants
10/1/2010: Changing Your Mind
9/24/2010: Aliens of the Deep
4/9/2010: American Savannah
4/2/2010: Masters of Space
3/26/2010: One Ocean: The Changing Sea
3/19/2010: One Ocean: Mysteries of the Deep
3/12/2010: One Ocean: Footprints in the Sand
3/5/2010: One Ocean: Life and Birth
2/18/2010: Uakari: Secrets of the Red Monkey
2/12/2010: My Nuclear Neighbour
2/5/2010: Bat & Man
1/29/2010: The Downside of High
1/22/2010: The Science of Crime
1/8/2010: To Bee or Not to Bee
11/23/2009: The Suzuki Diaries: Coastal Canada
11/16/2009: Darwin's Brave New World: Publish and Be Damned
11/9/2009: Darwin's Brave New World: Evolutions
11/2/2009: Darwin's Brave New World: Origins
10/26/2009: Broken Tail's Last Journey
10/19/2009: Mini Monsters of Amazonia
10/12/2009: A Murder of Crows
7/4/2009: Arctic Meltdown: Adapting to Change
6/27/2009: Arctic Meltdown: The Arctic Passages
6/20/2009: Arctic Meltdown: A Changing World
2/13/2009: Inuit Odyssey
2/6/2009: Living City: A Critical Guide
1/30/2009: Supercar: The Automobiles of the Future
1/16/2009: Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
11/28/2008: The Brain That Changes Itself
11/21/2008: The Adventurers: The Lost People of the Baja
11/17/2008: The Suzuki Diaries
11/14/2008: The Adventurers: A Story Told in Stone
11/7/2008: The Adventurers: The Everlasting Oasis
10/31/2008: The Adventurers: The Last Nomads
10/24/2008: Rodney's Robot Revolution
10/17/2008: The Hobbit Enigma
10/3/2008: Gone Sideways
8/30/2008: Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent
8/3/2008: Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean of Ice
7/27/2008: Antarctic Mission: A Window on a Changing Climate
7/20/2008: Antarctic Mission: Islands at the Edge
7/13/2008: Wild China: Tides of Change
7/12/2008: Wild China: Beyond the Great Wall
7/5/2008: Wild China: Land of the Panda
6/29/2008: Wild China: The Tibetan Plateau
6/28/2008: Wild China: Shangri-La
6/22/2008: Wild China: Heart of the Dragon
2/1/2008: The Science of the Senses: Vision
1/25/2008: The Science of the Senses: Smell and Taste
1/18/2008: The Science of the Senses: Touch
1/11/2008: The Science of the Senses: Hearing
12/7/2007: Magazine #2
11/30/2007: Hot Times in the City
11/23/2007: Climate Change: Impact & Adaptation
11/16/2007: Magazine #1
11/9/2007: The Man with the Golden Cells
11/2/2007: Game Over: Conservation in Kenya
10/12/2007: The Bear Man of Kamchatka
9/2/2007: Weather Report
8/26/2007: Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species
8/19/2007: The Mystery of the Giant Sloth
8/12/2007: Cuttlefish
7/29/2007: Wild Caribbean: Secret Shores
7/22/2007: Wild Caribbean: Treasure Islands
6/24/2007: Wild Caribbean: Reefs and Wrecks
6/17/2007: Build Green
6/10/2007: Wild Caribbean: Hurricane Hell
5/30/2007: Earth Energy
5/28/2007: When Less Is More
12/7/2006: Stephen Lewis: The Man Who Couldn't Sleep
9/16/2006: Passion and Fury: The Emotional Brain---Happiness
9/2/2006: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain - Fear
8/10/2006: Cuba: The Accidental Revolution
8/5/2006: Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain - Anger
8/5/2006: Passion & Fury - The Emotional Brain: Love
7/30/2006: Cuba: The Accidental Revolution
7/23/2006: Beetalker: The Secret World of Bees
7/16/2006: Blue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine
7/9/2006: Ghosts of Futures Past: Tom Berger in the North
7/2/2006: Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species
6/27/2006: Value of Life
6/25/2006: Homo Sapiens: The Rise of Our Species
6/18/2006: Everyday Einstein
11/17/2005: Port Hope: A Question of Power
11/10/2005: Tsepong: A Clinic Called Hope
9/27/2005: Race for the Future
9/15/2005: Change of Heart
9/12/2005: The Friendly Atom: An Industrial History
9/1/2005: Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders
7/14/2005: Five Seasons
7/7/2005: Origins of Human Aggression: The Other Story
6/9/2005: Being Caribou
6/2/2005: Being Caribou
4/24/2005: Artika: The Russian Dream That Failed
4/21/2005: Whale Mission: Keepers of Memory
4/14/2005: Whale Mission: The Last Giants
3/6/2005: Nature Bites Back: Case of the Sea Otter
1/14/2005: Fighting Fire with Fire
1/7/2005: Forbidden Forest
12/26/2004: Apocolypse Cow
12/3/2004: Bhopal: The Search for Justice
11/19/2004: Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story
11/5/2004: Tale of a Tiny Bird
10/28/2004: Killed by Care: Making Medicine Safe
10/21/2004: Clot Busters
10/21/2004: Dealing with Drugs: New Options
9/30/2004: Arktika
9/30/2004: Selling Sickness
9/23/2004: Terrible Lizards of Oz
9/16/2004: Sex, Lies and Secrecy: Dissecting Hysterectomy
8/11/2004: Dope---Scientists and Sleuths Battle for the Soul of Sport
8/8/2004: Wild Australasia: New Worlds
8/1/2004: Wild Australasia: Islands Arks
7/25/2004: Wild Australasia: Gum Tree Country
7/18/2004: Wild Australasia---Southern Seas
7/11/2004: Wild Australasia: Desert Heart
7/4/2004: Wild Australasia
6/29/2004: Highway to Cyberia
4/11/2004: Eyes of the Moai
4/1/2004: When Is Enough, Enough?
3/18/2004: Walking with Ghosts
3/11/2004: Every Moment Counts
3/4/2004: Minor Keys
2/26/2004: Arctic Mission: Climate on the Edge
2/19/2004: Arctic Mission: Washed Away
2/12/2004: Arctic Mission: People of the Ice
2/5/2004: Arctic Mission: Lords of the Arctic
1/29/2004: Arctic Mission: The Great Adventure
1/21/2004: The Value of Life: AIDS in Africa Revisited
1/15/2004: Alternative Agriculture: Food for Life
1/8/2004: Corporate Agriculture: Hollow Men
12/20/2003: Natural Connections
12/13/2003: Journey to the Source
11/27/2003: Canada's Amazon: A Boreal Forest Journey
11/22/2003: Chaos, Science and the Unexplained
11/20/2003: The Crossing
11/13/2003: The Man Who Studies Murder
11/8/2003: Learning to Love the Creepy Crawlers
11/6/2003: The Weight of the World
11/6/2003: The Man Who Studies Murder
10/30/2003: Shark Tracker
10/22/2003: Ghosts of Lomako
9/21/2003: True Mystery of Easter Island
9/14/2003: Moving Sands
8/31/2003: Almost Home: A Sayisi Dene Journey
8/25/2003: Hearing Things
8/24/2003: Sea of Snakes
8/17/2003: Hotel Heliconia
7/20/2003: Biomimicry: Learning from Nature
6/29/2003: SARS. - The True Story
6/22/2003: The Navigators
6/15/2003: The Navigators
6/8/2003: Great Natural Wonders of the World
6/1/2003: Hypnosis: A Window into the Mind
5/25/2003: Man Who Talks with Wolves
4/27/2003: Lost
3/9/2003: The Price of Salmon
2/16/2003: Humans: Who Are We? The Human Invasion
1/26/2003: Humans: Who Are We? The Birth of the Human Mind
1/17/2003: Jo'burg: A View from the Summit
1/10/2003: Chronic Pain
1/3/2003: Recovering Krystal
12/15/2002: Up Close and Personal: The Ecology of David Suzuki
11/29/2002: Through the Lens: A Look Back at the Nature of Things
11/15/2002: Biomimicry: Learning from Nature
11/8/2002: Maisin: Years from Here
11/1/2002: A Madman's Journal
10/25/2002: Flight of the Whooping Crane
10/18/2002: Up Close and Toxic
7/17/2002: Self-Experimenters
6/10/2002: Vanishing Wetlands
6/10/2002: Water: Friend or Foe
4/25/2002: If Caribou Could Vote
3/27/2002: Intuition
3/20/2002: Wired for Life
3/13/2002: Cyberman
3/6/2002: Beluga: Speaking Across Time
2/27/2002: Morphine on Trial
12/18/2001: Shorelines
12/17/2001: The Tree That Changed the World
12/12/2001: Genetically Modified Foods
12/10/2001: Reefer Madness 2
12/8/2001: Monkey Business
12/5/2001: Return of the Peregrine
12/5/2001: Memory
12/4/2001: Powerful Medicine
11/28/2001: Living Forever
11/25/2001: Look Who's Talking...How Animals Communicate
11/21/2001: Race Against Time
11/21/2001: Bioterror
11/21/2001: Second Wind
11/20/2001: Shorelines
11/18/2001: Man & Dog: An Evolving Partnership
11/14/2001: Drug Deals: How Safe Are Prescription Drugs?
11/13/2001: Balancing Act; Kids Go Wild
11/11/2001: Weighing the Options: Elective Scoliosis
11/10/2001: Toxic Waste: Journey to the Source
11/4/2001: Dead Heat
10/31/2001: Return to the Land; When the Well Runs Dry
10/29/2001: Back to Basics
10/19/2001: Piercing the Dark; Let the Wild Things Grow
10/17/2001: Touch: The Forgotten Sense
10/10/2001: Warnings from the Wild
10/4/2001: The Arctic Refuge: The Struggle Continues
10/3/2001: Me, My Brain and I
9/30/2001: The Great Plains
9/26/2001: Bird Hospital; Face Value
9/25/2001: Grasslands
9/24/2001: Knowing Nose
9/19/2001: National Parks: Forever Wild?
9/2/2001: Amazon Jungle
8/23/2001: Worst Case Scenario
8/16/2001: Toxic Legacies
3/29/2001: Battle for Saltspring
3/22/2001: Hospital at the End of the Earth
2/8/2001: The Salmon Forest
1/11/2001: Amanda's Choice
12/8/2000: Mighty Amazon
10/20/2000: Spare Parts
9/3/2000: Sleep Famine
8/29/2000: Hanta Virus
8/26/2000: Global Warming: Turning Up the Heat
4/4/2000: Race for the Future
4/1/2000: Animals in Research: Breaking the Habit
3/28/2000: Weather: Dragons of Chaos
3/14/2000: Humans
3/11/2000: Out of the Shadows: Reconstructive Surgery
2/29/2000: Wild Goose Chase
2/7/2000: Phallacies
1/29/2000: Down to Earth: Kids and Nature
1/22/2000: The Familiar Face of Love
1/18/2000: Phantom Limbs
1/15/2000: Why Sex?
1/11/2000: Frozen Hearts
12/20/1999: Toys
10/26/1999: Parkinson's: Lynda's Story
10/18/1999: Hidden Killer: Portrait of an Epidemic
10/12/1999: How to Live to 100
Conducting; Science School
The Nature of Things
When Wind Blows One of Family
I Never Planned on This: Aging
Children Who Learned to Listen
The Greening Business
The Shoreline Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Barren's Quest
Arctic Islands: A Matter of Time
Maps; Mountain Gophers; Silk Weaving
Serving Time
Acid Rain
Home of the Birds
The Nature of Things
Human Tide
Amazonia: The Road to the End of the Forest
Connecting Flights
Skin Deep: The Science of Race
Autism
Radar; Water Witching
Magnet Earth
30th Anniversary Show
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Temagami: The Last Stand
Chaos: Science and the Unexpected
Diabetes: Blood, Sugar, Sweat, Tears
The Hidden World of the Bog
Stein Valley; Puffins and Prey
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Labrador: The Way of the Caribou
Bishnois Antelope; Cyclosporin; Freezing Water
Bats; Let the Wild Things Grow
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Nuclear Power: The Hot Debate
Coming to Grips with the Grippe
Euthanasia
What's in a Neem
Brain Puzzle
Doctors of Tomorrow; Water Hyacinths; Walking
Plant Communication; The Jaipur Foot
Home Sound: Poisoned Waters
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Repairing Vietnam's Jungles
Allergies: Nothing to Sneeze At
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Wall Paintings; Erie Ice-Fly Fishing
Back Pain
Kaos: Science and the Unexpected
Climate for Change
Climate for Change
The Burgess Shale
The Mystery of the Mind
Pumping Hormones
Dealing with Drugs
Climate of Change
Monkey Business
Living with Stress
Invaders
Food or Famine
There's No Life Without It
Vitamins: Hype or Hope?
On a Wing and a Song
Advanced Material World
Water to the Last Drop
Ulcer Wars
The Tiger Crisis
The Living City
Mysteries of Ocean Wanderers
Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague
Where Heron Finds Its Home
Complementary Medicine
What's in a Neem
The Tides of the Kirawire
Island of Ghost Bear
Arthrites Lives: Out of Joint
Antibiotics
Martin Gardner: Mathemagician
Crying Wolf
The Road to Cyberia
Highway to Siberia
Bogs
Ancient Futures
The Three Gorges Dam
Connecting Flights
Burgess Shale: Impressions of Life
Alternative Medicine: Teaching New Doctors Old Tricks
Wetlands
Asthma: Air of Mystery
Island of Ghost Bear
Roger Tory Peterson: Portrait of a Birdwatcher
The Child Who Couldn't Play
The Hidden World of the Bog
The Last Survivors
Monkey Business
Learning to Love the Creepy Crawlies
Bald Eagles: Searching for Home
Pelicans and Cormorants: Prairie Scapegoats
The Natural History of a Point of View: John Livingston
Echo of the Elephants: The Next Generation
Living Color
Dealing with Drugs: Update
The Trouble with Malaria
Lions: A Pride in Peril
Wolves And Buffalo And Ancient Alliance
Infertility
Great Northern Forest
Head for Figures: When Numbers Are a Matter of Life and Death
Wildlife for Sale Dead or Alive
Lost in the Suburbs
Hot Flash on Menopause
Not So Sweet
Friendly Atom
The Green Zone
Fat Cats, Thin Mice
Little Brother Fights Back
Phobias: The Secret Fears
Out of the Shadows: Reconstructive Surgery
Up Close and Personal: The Ecology of David Suzuki
The Day the Earth Shook: Lessons from Earthquake County
Virus That Cures
Reefer Madness
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Women of Kerala Vortex
Colorful Notions
Herschel: An Isle of Flowers in a Sea of Ice
Memory: Past Imperfect
Yukon to Yellowstone
Paul Ehrlich and 'The Population Bomb'
Fisheries: Beyond Crisis
Living Color
Contact
Hooked on Oil
Sea Raven; Where There's Smoke
Japan's Rise to Industrial Power
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Salmon on the Line
Flight Simulators; Depression
Echo of Elephants
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Sea of Slaughter
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Charlie Last of Life
Cobra; Blue Babies; High Flight
Family of Chimps
Footsteps on the Moon; Salamanders; Iron Age Village
Hearing Things
Left Brain, Right Brain
Next Year's Model
Northern Wanderers: The George River Caribou; The Teflon Knee
Prairie Waters
Return; Trouble in the Forest
The Right Whale; Insect Communication; Bird Sculpture
Strike Force; How Fish Swim
Swimming; Beating Diabetes; Glass Eyes
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Aids Report
Aircraft
Anatomy of Eloquence
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Animal Migration: Great Cycle
Desert; Everglades
Face Value; Bird Hospital
High Spirits; Burgess Shale; Cosmetic Surgery
Lacandons
Mating
New Backs for Old; Living Color
Niagara Escapment: A Rock Video
Professor Bonner and Slime Molds
Restless Sky; Rotation; Handcraft in History
Return of the Swift Fox; Pains of Performance
From the Rivers to the Sea
Sailing
Stunning Sounds
Trouble in the Forest
Wilderness Under Siege
Yanomami
Ancient Diseases; Freak Waves; Joel Hildebrand
Comet's Return; Goshawks
Cree of Paint Hills
Fragile Harvest
Frogs; Snakes; Turtles; Lobsters and the Sea
Gabra
Great Lakes
Milkweed; When the Well Runs Dry
Muscle Fibers; How Fish Swim
My Goal Is to Live; The Return of the Sea Otter
Natural Connections
Snappers; Inside Out; Samurai Armor
Spas: Magic or Medicine
The Spinal Cord; Orchids; Juggling
Year of the Rat
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Blood of Our Children; Recycling; Kidney Stones
Breathing Sea
Cathedral Engineers; Neem; Bluebird Trails
Dinosaurs Remains to Be Seen
Ducks in Danger
Earthquake Connection
Island Monster; Philip Morrison
Islands at the Edge
Jellyfish of the Sky; Return to Land
Khunde Hospital; Computer Choreology; Periscope Camera
Open Heart
A Pain in the Back; Mobile Computers; A Bird Atlas
The Rocky Mountains; Point Pelee
Roger Tory Peterson: Revisited
Russia
Russia
Vision of the Blind
Voices in the Wind
Waterproof Frog Piano in Subnuclear Kitchen
Water's Edge
The Green Quiz
Day of Reckoning
Turning to Dust
Grizzly Bears: Losing Ground
Revolution Down on the Farm
Lasers: Brighter Than the Sun
Animals in Research: Breaking the Habit
Bugman of Ithaca
The Cholesterol Factor
Amazonia: The Road to the End of the Forest
A Pretense of Performance
Amazonia: The Road to the End of the Forest
Rare Breeds: How a Bird Fills the Bill
Sea of Slaughter
Sea of Slaughter
A Sky Full of Planes
The Tree that Shaped the World
Return; 30th Anniversary Show
Salt of the Earth
Little Wars
Global Warming
Crying Wolf
Air Crash
Post Mortem
Dealing with Drugs
No Spare Parts
Herschel; Ghana
Voices in the Forest
Voices in the Forest
Dealing with Drugs
Voices in the Forest
You Must Have Been a Bilingual Baby
The Last Survivors
Memory: Past Imperfect
Coral Reefs
Psychopath
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