Cuttlefish
Imagine an alien with three hearts and ten arms growing out of its head. In an instant it could become invisible, or switch on electrifying light shows. This alien actually exists. Cuttlefish are the one of the strangest creatures on our planet. Leading expert Dr. Mark Norman reveals how these shape shifting champions can hypnotize their prey, impersonate the other sex and even turn out to be deadly. >CUTTLEFISH: The Brainy Bunch captures the spectacular pyrotechnics of these surprisingly clever creatures, discovers just what goes on between their eyes and what they can teach us about our own brainpower.
Climate Change
Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.
Weather Report
WEATHER REPORT takes us on a journey to the frontlines of our climate changing world in the Canadian Arctic, Montana, Northern Kenya, China and India, visiting communities and ordinary people whose lives and livelihoods are being impacted in the most dramatic ways.
Earth Energy
Today, if the rest of the world consumed at the rate Canadians do, we’d require five planets in order to sustain ourselves. So harnessing renewable sources of energy is as important as conserving energy through design, as sculptor, aviator, inventor, and filmmaker Bill Lishman reveals in his journey around the globe in search of earth’s renewable energy.
The Man with the Golden Cells
Molecular biology, stem cells, genomics: these are the cutting-edge fields where the controversial work is happening. In The Man with the Golden Cells, something as sci-fi as the cryogenic preservation of cell lines is just another FedEx delivery for the people who drive this industry. The Man with the Golden Cells travels the troubling road from John Moore’s case through to today’s vibrant global trade of the human body: in Singapore, in Boston, in Paris, in Toronto, the very genes that make up the human body are there to be bought and sold.
