The Nature of Things 2008
2008-01-10 | Documentary | 23 episodes20 Seasons
Episode
The Science of the Senses: Hearing (2008)
In Hearing, episode one of The Science of the Senses, finding the answer to that question will take us on a journey through the ear, into the brain and right into the heart of the human psyche.
The Science of the Senses: Touch (2008)
In The Science of the Senses: Touch we will take a journey through the skin, into the subcutaneous world of our sensory receptors and up into the brain as we explore the hidden language of our most essential sense.
The Science of the Senses: Smell/Taste (2008)
In this episode of The Science of the Senses, we explore how smell combines with taste, somewhere in our brain, to create the perception of flavour. Most people wrongly assume that taste dominates. But what actually allows us to differentiate one food from another beyond the basics of sweet, sour, salty, savory and bitter, is the aroma.
The Science of the Senses: Sight (2008)
This episode takes viewers on a fascinating tour of our visual world, from the moment light enters our eyes, to the way this information is transformed into electrical impulses and decoded by our brain - the domain of "visual perception". The act of "seeing" takes an immense amount of brainpower, more than 65% of the brain's neural pathways.
Mystery of the Giant Sloths Cave
The discovery of an exceptional palaeological deposit that revolutionized our knowledge of giant sloths, an ancient species of extraordinary creatures reaching the size of an elephant and weighing over four tons!
