Brain Games Follow the Leader
This is a show about your brain and how easily you follow the leader. Everyone likes to think they're unique, but like it or not, much of your behaviour is influenced by you copying other people. We're going to mess with your mind as we put you through a series of games and experiments designed to show you why a ...
- 2014
- 00:21:41
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/07/2016
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News in Review - April 2001 Foot-and-mouth: A Transborder Crisis
In this story we examine the economic, political, inter-governmental and personal implications of the outbreak of this disease and the frightening capability of foot-and-mouth to spread across national borders. The story also involves disciplines and areas of study such as biology, immunology, global marketplaces, farm management and tourism. As Canadians, we have been affected by the spread of the disease ...
- 2001
- 00:14:22
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/15/2001
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Earth: A New Wild Forests
Dr M. Sanjayan travels into the Amazon’s “Intangible Zone” with a team of scientists who believe it could be the most bio-diverse place on earth. Despite being virtually “off the map”, there are still people here: Waorani, who are fierce defenders of the forest against outsiders. They help the scientists reveal the forest’s deepest scientific secrets. But seeing how people live ...
- 2014
- 00:44:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/11/2016
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Firsthand Forever Young
Forever Young is a film that challenges our view of aging and reveals new technologies which could significantly extend human life. Death is the ultimate insult to the scientific mind. While science, technology and medicine have advanced in leaps and bounds during the past century, humans have still not cracked the most elemental challenge of them all: how to conquer death ...
- 2015
- 00:44:23
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/17/2015
Country Canada Franken Foods
Food activists have coined the phrase "Franken Foods" and say the new technology puts us all at risk. For many farmers, it's just one more piece of technology that's both efficient and safe. Country Canada hears from both sides of the argument and talks to Prince Edward Island activist Aaron Koleszar, whose protests at the World Trade Organization meeting in ...
- 2000
- 00:10:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Li'l Doc Gastroenteritis
Accompanied by her chameleon Geeko, Li'l Doc shows us how viruses can throw off and impede the body’s digestive system.
- 2019
- 00:02:31
- 5-8
- Added on: 10/13/2020
The National Genetically Modified Salmon Approved by FDA
A genetically modified salmon that grows at twice the rate of regular salmon has been approved as food by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
- 2015
- 00:02:25
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/08/2015
News in Review - November 1999 Genetics In Food: Changing Mother Nature
According to many people, including scientists such as David Suzuki, scientific advances are not always consistent with or beneficial to consumers when long-range effects are unknown. This is the key issue behind the groundswell of opposition to genetically engineered food, an agricultural and marketing phenomenon that started in Europe. Despite the potential benefits of improved foodstuffs for alleviating global hunger, ...
- 1999
- 00:13:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/1999
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The Nature of Things Giraffes: The Forgotten Giants
What many people do not realize about giraffes is that these iconic creatures of wild Africa, with their long necks, cinnamon spotted coats, flirty lashes and loping gait are disappearing at an alarming rate. Two hundred years ago there were a million giraffes, in 2000 there were 140,000 roaming Africa’s plains. Now, 15 years later, their numbers have plummeted to ...
- 2015
- 00:44:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/20/2015
