The BEST episodes of The Nature of Things season 50
Every episode of The Nature of Things season 50, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Nature of Things season 50!
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.
#1 - Aliens of the Deep Sea
Season 50 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2010
The octopus is a close cousin of the oyster and snail. And yet, even by human standards the multi-limbed creature is considered highly intelligent. From Spain to Vancouver Island to Capri, Italy, scientists are testing the brain-power of the mysterious and mythic octopus.
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#2 - Geologic Journey 2: Tectonic Europe
Season 50 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2010
Traverse the Eurasian plate across Europe — from Iceland, where new land is formed - to the Alps, where old land is destroyed.
#3 - Geologic Journey 2: The Western Pacific Rim
Season 50 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2010
Focusing on the Asia-Pacific side of The Pacific Rim of Fire, which stands as a living testament to the beauty and danger that powerful geologic forces can deliver. The Pacific Rim is home to half of the world's active volcanoes and ninety percent of the world's earthquakes, yet nearly 800 million people continue to live within its violent edge.
#4 - Geologic Journey 2: The Collision Zone: Asia
Season 50 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2010
The fiery unpredictability of Indonesia’s volcanoes at one end, the massive Himalayas at the other and millions of years of tectonic tension in between. The collision zone of the old world is about to be the hub of the new. India, the Himalayas and the island arc of Indonesia - these lands will form the centre of the world’s next supercontinent.
#5 - Save My Lake
Season 50 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/2011
Is it too late to save one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world?
#6 - For the Love of Elephants
Season 50 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2010
An intimate look at the bond that is formed between humans and baby orphaned elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust rehabilitation centre just outside of Nairobi, Kenya.
#7 - Changing Your Mind
Season 50 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2010
Once thought to be incapable of fundamental change, our growing awareness of the adult brain's capacity for neuroplasticity is opening new doors to treatments for diseases and disorders once thought incurable.
#8 - 50 Years of the Nature of Things
Season 50 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/2011
A celebration of half a century of a landmark science and natural history series, and an unrivaled Canadian institution.
#9 - Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie
Season 50 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/13/2011
David Suzuki, scientist, educator, broadcaster and activist, delivers what he describes as 'a last lecture' interwoven with scenes from his life and lifetime – the major social, scientific, cultural and political events of the past 70 years.
#10 - The Real Avatar
Season 50 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/2011
In James Cameron's film, Avatar, an alien tribe on the distant planet of Pandora fights the human invaders bent on mining their forest home. Instead of Pandora, think Peru.
#11 - Raccoon Nation
Season 50 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2011
Is your garbage can making raccoons smarter? Stunning footage shot in the deep, dark of night combines with groundbreaking research in this fascinating documentary to explore the remarkable ways that city life is changing raccoons.
#12 - Return of the Prairie Bandit
Season 50 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/2011
Revisiting the 2009 release of nearly extinct black-footed ferrets in Saskatchewan to see what happened.
#13 - The Last Grizzly
Season 50 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2011
Filmmaker Jeff Turner documents grizzly bears in the Northern Cascades of British Columbia.
#14 - Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Season 50 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2011
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time
#15 - Code Breakers
Season 50 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2011
Who were the first peoples of North America? Anthropologist Niobe Thompson embarks on a voyage of scientific discovery, using the latest in DNA analysis techniques to unlock the secrets behind humanity's earliest appearance in the Americas.
#16 - When North Goes South
Season 50 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2010
Learning and discussing the consequences of magnetic pole inversion.
#17 - Geologic Journey 2: The Pacific Rim: Americas
Season 50 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2010
Nick Eyles continues to explore the Pacific Rim, this time looking at the west coast of North America.
#18 - Geologic Journey 2: Along the African Rift
Season 50 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2010
For millions of years the East African Rift has been widening at the seams, tearing the African plate in two.