Nature of Things Magazine


A selection of short stories from The Nature of Things. In Rail Renaissance, viewers will travel to Europe to witness the lead up to the launch of the new High Speed One service in London. In LHC: to the Heart of Matter, viewers will learn that it will happen in the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most sophisticated machine ever constructed by science, occupying a 27-kilometre circumference. And in Suzuki Nation has a one-on-one conversation with musician Sarah Harmer.

Giant Sloths
Today’s sloths rank highly among the most surprising creatures of the animal kingdom: living suspended to the Amazon rainforest’s trees, they move about extremely slowly, as if from a world where time flows differently. Yet, only a few thousand years ago, the Sloths family gathered even more extraordinary members, reaching the size of an elephant and weighing over four tons!

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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.

Tarantula
They are big and hairy and very scary, with venomous fangs to rival many snakes: tarantulas. Kicking off the season in hair-raising fashion, the award-winning documentary Tarantula exposes the secret lives of these ancient crawlers. They have been roaming our planet for more than 350 million years and survived to become the giants of the spider kingdom, with a reputation to match-their name alone provokes fear and loathing!

Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies
This is the extraordinary story of a family reunion. In this case, the family is made up of one man and a few bears, living in isolation in the wilderness of Russia. The Bear Man of Kamchatka tracks Canadian bear expert Charlie Russell as he rescues two orphaned cubs destined for death in a squalid Russian zoo. He secrets them away to his home in the remote wilds of the South Kamchatka peninsula, in the former Soviet Union.