The Nature of Things 2012
2012-01-12 | Documentary | 16 episodes20 Seasons
Episode
Programmed to be Fat? (2012)
New science links man-made chemicals to the global obesity epidemic. Man-made chemicals may be programming us to be fat - before we're even born.
Surviving :) The Teenage Brain (2012)
A look at the science deep within the teenage brain and a celebration of evolution's masterpiece - the years that bring us judgment, adaptation and innovation. In short the years that make us human.
Mysteries of the Animal Mind (2012)
Scientists explore the mysteries of animal consciousness and find growing evidence of compassion, cooperation, altruism, empathy, intelligence and communication in all sorts of different species.
The American Tiger (2012)
Most tigers today are privately owned - experts estimate that the number of tigers living in the United States is nearly double of those in the wild. What's life like for the American tiger?
MS Wars: Hope, Science and the Internet (2012)
Multiple sclerosis patients use social media to engage in an unprecedented battle with the Canadian medical establishment for access to a controversial treatment.
