The Nature of Things Season 40 Episodes

Episode 1

Phallacies

Mon, Oct 4, 1999

Season Opener: Myths and misconceptions are often born from concealment of facts. This program brings penis front and center for an unfettered study of male organ's place in history, art, religion, and contemporary life.

Episode 2

The Hidden Killer: Portrait Of An Epidemic

Mon, Oct 18, 1999

Imagine if a new disease suddenly began to kill off some of healthiest young people in your community.

Episode 3

Parkinson'S: Lynda's Story

Mon, Oct 25, 1999

Despite astonishing advances in many areas of modern medicine, treatment of Parkinson's disease has changed very little since drug therapy was introduced nearly 40 years ago.

Episode 4

Lost

Mon, Nov 8, 1999

We've all felt terror of being lost - even for just a few moments. We lose our way.

Episode 5

Designing for Dignity: Engineering Body Parts

An examination of the efforts of bio-engineers worldwide who are working with plastic, metals and live tissue, trying to mimic Mother Nature and return damaged bodies to function and dignity. It includes the design and manufacturing of prosthetic ears; the design and implementation of prosthetics for hip and knee replacements; and the tissue engineering work with numerous applications of the Vacanti brothers.

Episode 6

Race For The Future

Mon, Nov 29, 1999

When David Suzuki was born 1936, there were two billion human beings. In his lifetime.

Episode 7

Race For The Future, Part 2

Mon, Dec 6, 1999

In our previous program, we saw how science and technology have presented us with a paradox -- a world.

Episode 8

The Sleep Famine

Sun, Jan 24, 1999

A nuclear power plant whether Chernobyl or this one near Toronto, is not a place you want run by people who are half asleep.

Episode 9

Do Parents Matter?

Sun, Feb 7, 1999

These are 12-year-old Americans. Like all children their age, their personalities are already well defined.

Episode 10

Silent Sentinels

Mon, Feb 21, 2000

Mass bleaching of coral has swept world's tropical oceans, in places leaving hundreds of miles of coral coastline severely damaged.

Episode 11

Wild Goose Chase

Mon, Feb 28, 2000

Wild Goose Chase explores ways in which city-dwelling Canada Geese and arctic-nesting Lesser Snow Geese have turned modern, human-altered landscape to their advantage.

Episode 12

Humans: Who Are We, Part 1 - The Birth Of The Human Mind

Mon, Mar 13, 2000

The Birth of The Human Mind takes viewers on an amazing journey back in time, exploring use of language, tools and how our distant ancestors came to walk.

Episode 13

Humans: Who Are We?, Part 2 - The Human Invasion

Mon, Mar 20, 2000

Did we kill off our cousins, interbreed and merge with them, or did they just die out?

Episode 14

Weather: Dragons Of Chaos

Mon, Mar 27, 2000

Violent thunderstorms develop in heat of spring and summer. The heat quickly draws large amounts of water vapour into air.