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The Nature of Things Season 39 Episodes

14 Episodes 1998 - 1999

Episode 1

Up Close And Personal: The Ecology Of David Suzuki

Thu, Oct 8, 1998

The program is about natural history of this invisible world: things that float in air around us, microbes live in dish cloth on kitchen counter, fungi under our fingernails, and visitors in saucer under a house plant.

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Episode 2

High Society: Reefer Madness 2

Thu, Oct 15, 1998

There is a growing number of people who regard marijuana as a benign medicine.

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Episode 3

Episode #39.3

Thu, Nov 5, 1998

Over last 200 years, prairie grasslands of North America have undergone a radical transformation.

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Episode 4

Good Wood

Thu, Nov 26, 1998

A focus on Honduras and important link between this country, Mexico, US and Canada.

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Episode 5

Look Who's Talking... How Animals Communicate

Thu, Dec 3, 1998

It is only recently that humans have become aware that animal communication is often elegant, elaborate and subtle.

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Episode 6

Chimps On Death Row

Thu, Jan 21, 1999

Chimps are getting Hepatitis B and it is a serious health problem, which usually leads to death in species.

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Episode 7

Man And Dog: An Evolving Partnership

Thu, Jan 28, 1999

The domestic dog has a special place in human world. Is it by accident or design? All breeds of dogs trace their ancestry back to a common wolf-like creature lived some 12 thousand years ago.

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Episode 8

Weighing The Options: Elective Scoliosis Surgery

Thu, Feb 11, 1999

Scoliosis or curvature of spine is found worldwide in about one out of every 10 people.

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Episode 9

Escape From Earth

Thu, Feb 18, 1999

In some ways Mars is like Earth: there are clouds, wind, fog and frost. But it's also as cold as Antarctica.

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Episode 10

How To Live To 100

Thu, Feb 25, 1999

What age group is fastest growing segment in our society? Teenagers, boomers, infants? Guess againcentenarians.

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Episode 11

Dead Heat

Thu, Mar 4, 1999

The Spanish flu reserved its special virulence not for children and elderly but for those in prime of life.

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Episode 12

Episode #39.12

Thu, Mar 11, 1999

In 1956, Russian tanks rolled down streets of Budapest. Castro began fighting his way to power in Cuba and North American women kept house in an era known as baby boom.

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Episode 13

The Pill

45 mins

What is Canada's role in solar power? We're on leading edge of fuel cell development but what about wind and solar? Most of our national wind energy output can be assessed at one glance here on eastern slopes of Rockies.

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Episode 14

Wonders Of The World

Thu, Apr 15, 1999

What are your wonders of world? See what some experts have to offer as today's wonders of world.

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