The Nature of Things Equus: Story of the Horse — Origins
We built the world around us with horsepower. But what is it that makes humans and horses so perfect for each other? The three-part series Equus takes viewers on an epic journey across three continents and back in time to the mysterious beginnings of the horse-human relationship. In Episode 1, we go back 45 million years to meet a tiny, ...
- 2018
- 00:44:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/01/2018
Absolutely Maritimes Every Living Thing: Experiencing a Bioblitz
In this the United Nations Decade of Biodiversity (2011-2020), Every Living Thing follows a 20-year biodiversity research project to identify and catalogue as many species as possible in the province of New Brunswick, before human encroachment and climate change intensifies.
- 2016
- 00:43:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/2016
CBC News Explainer: What's missing when we talk while wearing protective masks? New
CBC News asked two experts what's lost from the human experience when one of our biggest tools of communication is eclipsed and muffled by cloth.
- 2020
- 00:05:38
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/07/2020
News in Review - December 1999 Extreme Sports: Tempting Fate?
Like most News in Review stories, this analysis of the phenomenon of proliferating and increasingly dangerous “sports” is much more than what first meets the eye. This is a story about human behaviour, human needs and contemporary social values. The story asks many fundamental questions: What is the nature of sport? When is the line crossed in terms of risk ...
- 1999
- 00:15:04
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/15/1999
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News in Review - January 2018 Facing Extinction: What’s Killing the Mysterious Right Whale?
2017 was the deadliest year on record for North American right whales since they became a protected species over 80 years ago. Through the summer, 15 right whales were discovered dead — most in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This magnificent and mysterious animal is already facing extinction with fewer than 500 of the species left in the world. So ...
- 2018
- 00:11:33
- 9-12
- Added on: 01/26/2018
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The National Field of Genes
The National takes a look at the promise and the peril of bioengineered food. Foods that we are eating are being genetically altered. Are these high tech foods safe? This documentary deals with the reality that more and more bio-engineered food is arriving in stores daily and consumers don't know what's been genetically altered and what's not. The issue of control ...
- 1997
- 00:45:07
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
Alien Deep Fires of Creation
Dr. Robert Ballard is one of the world's most renowned ocean explorers, with such amazing finds as the Titanic, the battleship Bismarck and JFK's PT 109 to his name. But this time he is going on a journey like no other. He's going to make an underwater odyssey down the world's tallest mountain! No, it's not Everest at 29,000 ft. ...
- 2012
- 00:45:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/04/2016
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The Nature of Things First Animals New
For most of its existence, planet Earth has been a brutal, inhospitable, toxic nightmare, until a half billion years ago when – KABOOM! – life suddenly appeared. First Animals takes you back to the Cambrian Explosion through newly-discovered fossils that tell us more about our own origins. Renowned evolutionary biologist Maydianne Andrade is our guide, showing us how complex – and ...
- 2019
- 00:44:09
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/17/2020
Brain Games Focus Pocus
Think your field of vision is really in focus, or that your brain is focusing on everything happening in front of you? Think you know exactly what is most important at any given moment? Think again. This episode of Brain Games puts your focus and attention to the ultimate test with a series of interactive games and fascinating experiments that reveal how ...
- 2013
- 00:22:30
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/12/2017
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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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