Season 48 (2008)

The Hobbit Enigma
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October 16, 2008

One of the greatest controversies in science today: just what did scientists really find when they uncovered the tiny, human-like ...Read more

Rodney's Robot Revolution
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October 23, 2008

Has the time come to meet an artificially intelligent robot? Engineer and inventor Rodney Brooks thinks so. Forget about all those...Read more

The Adventurers: The Last Nomads
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October 30, 2008

Linguist Ian Mackenzie has tracked the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth - the Penan of Borneo. Their way of...Read more

The Adventurers: The Everlasting Oasis
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November 6, 2008

University of Toronto archaeologist Tony Mills travels to the eastern desert of Egypt where he and other archaeologists have unear...Read more

The Adventurers: A Story Told in Stone
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November 13, 2008

Archeologist Edmundo Edwards pulls back the vines and trees of the jungle to find huge stone cities that sprawled across the inter...Read more

The Suzuki Diaries: Europe
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November 16, 2008 • 1h

David Suzuki and his daughter Sarika head out on a road trip across Europe to see sustainability in action and meet the people who...Read more

The Adventurers: The Lost People of Baja
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November 20, 2008

Canadian paleo-pathologist Eldon Molto is leading the search for clues of the mysterious Pericu people of Baja California, Mexico ...Read more

The Brain that Changes Itself
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November 27, 2008 • 1h

Based on the best-selling book by Toronto psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Norman Doidge, a look at how we view the human mind.

Gone Sideways
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January 8, 2009

A light-hearted look at serendipity in science, from life-saving cancer cures to the x-ray machine and the discovery of North America.

Black Wave: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez
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January 15, 2009

A saga about what happens when ordinary people struggle for justice against a huge corporation that has destroyed both their envir...Read more

Supercar: Building the Car of the Future
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January 29, 2009

Engineering professor Brian Fleck on a quest to meet the engineers, designers and even students who are trying to build the car of the future.

Living City: A Critical Guide
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February 5, 2009

What's wrong with Canada's cities? What's right? Award-winning urban affairs columnist Christopher Hume takes a cross-country jour...Read more

Inuit Odyssey
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February 12, 2009

Canadian Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson takes us on a visually stunning journey across the North, tracing the origins of the modern Inuit.

American Savannah
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February 19, 2009

Our lawns are one of our simplest pleasures. Grass is a luxury that represents relaxation, freedom, time off and of course, time a...Read more

Arctic Meltdown: A Changing World
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June 20, 2009

From new companies rushing to claim the Arctic's plentiful resources to the effect climate change has had on animals as well as pl...Read more

Arctic Meltdown: The Arctic Passages
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June 27, 2009

Until recently, only a few ships braved travel through these ice-strewn waters. More and more ships cross these seas each year and...Read more

Arctic Meltdown: Adapting to Change
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July 4, 2009

A look at two different Arctics - one that is the storybook land of ice, snow and polar bears and the other that is covered with p...Read more