[quote="festering leper"]Notes:
All captures below have the following specifications unless otherwise specified:
Video Codec: XviD 1.02
Video Bitrate: 2000 Kbits ABR
Video Resolution: 640x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33
Audio Codec: mp3
Audio BitRate: 128 Kbits CBR / 48KHz 16bit (normalized)
Audio Channels: 2 (stereo)
Source: NTSC cable
Captured by: festering leper
CBC Nature of Things Page: here
The beginning numbers in the ed2k link are YYMMDD format date of capture or release.
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Passion & Fury: The Emotional Brain
2.72GB
Passion and Fury: The Emotional Brain is a rare and compelling investigation of our most basic emotions - fear, anger, happiness and love - and the internal forces that can take humans from the brink of madness and obsession to the heights of ecstasy and euphoria. Bringing together powerful human stories with frontier science, this special four-part series looks at the primal emotions that we generate in our brains, and how nature and nurture combine to make us feel the way we do.
1of4 ed2k: 050322.cbc.the.nature.of.things.passion.and.fury.the.emotional.brain.1of4.anger.6...tering.leper.avi [696.96 Mb] [Stats]
2of4 ed2k: 050322.cbc.the.nature.of.things.passion.and.fury.the.emotional.brain.2of4.love.64...tering.leper.avi [698.83 Mb] [Stats]
3of4 ed2k: 050322.cbc.the.nature.of.things.passion.and.fury.the.emotional.brain.3of4.fear.64...tering.leper.avi [699.14 Mb] [Stats]
4of4 ed2k: 050322.cbc.the.nature.of.things.passion.and.fury.the.emotional.brain.4of4.happine...tering.leper.avi [698.96 Mb] [Stats]
Intuition (640x464)
616MB
A horse buyer selects her winning choices randomly from a list, using her "gut-feeling." Upon viewing a photo, a businesswoman tells her boss that his wife is expecting a baby. An astronaut communicates telepathically from space with colleagues on earth. These and many other examples of psi-phenomena are examined in the film Intuition.
ed2k: 020326.cbc.the.nature.of.things.intuition.640x464.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [616.12 Mb] [Stats]
Recovering Krystal
536MB
Recovering Krystal tells the dramatic story of Krystal Meade, a teenage drug addict and runaway, attending the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre (AARC). The focus of this unique alcohol and drug rehabilitation program is the treatment of the young addicts and their families. Recovering Krystal offers an insider's view of the Alberta Addiction Recovery Centre, by examining groundbreaking rehabilitation techniques.
ed2k: 030103.cbc.the.nature.of.things.recovering.krystal.640x480.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [536.42 Mb] [Stats]
The Value of Life: Aids in Africa Revisited (400x300/DIVX/VHS)
355MB
This film is a follow-up to the award-winning Race Against Time in 2001, which covered Lewis on one of his first fact-finding missions in Africa. Kofi Annan had declared a war on AIDS and, at a special session of the U.N., established a Global Fund so richer countries could help poorer ones fight the disease. With the world focused on AIDS, Lewis believed the pandemic could be stopped in its tracks. But then came September 11, and the world's attention turned to homeland security and fighting terrorism. With promises of financial aid to Africa broken, Lewis's optimism turned to disbelief.
ed2k: 040121.cbc.the.nature.of.things.the.value.of.life.aids.in.africa.revisited.400x30...tering.leper.avi [355.10 Mb] [Stats]
When Is Enough, Enough? (VHS)
684MB
At the centre of Canada's vast northern watershed that drains into the Arctic Ocean is one of the greatest freshwater deltas on Earth - the Peace-Athabasca Delta. Upstream, along the Athabasca River, hidden underneath the boreal forest and muskeg wetlands, is one of the richest oil deposits in the world. The United States government recently declared Alberta's oil sands to be 'proven oil reserves.' Consequently, the U.S. upgraded its global oil estimates for Canada from five billion to 175 billion barrels.
ed2k: 040331.cbc.the.nature.of.things.when.is.enough.enough.640x480.xvid.mp3.vhs.festering.leper.avi [684.63 Mb] [Stats]
Selling Sickness
687MB
Selling Sickness explores the unhealthy relationships between society, medical science and the pharmaceutical industry as they promote their new miracle cures - selling not just drugs but also the latest diseases that go with them. It looks at the growing global controversy around SSRI antidepressants and follows British Psychiatrist, Dr David Healy, patients and their families as they rock the scientific establishment with accusations that aggressive drug marketing is blurring the boundaries between medical conditions and ordinary life with potentially deadly consequences.
ed2k: 040930.cbc.the.nature.of.things.selling.sickness.640x480.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [687.21 Mb] [Stats]
Arktika: The Russian Dream That Failed
689MB
ARKTIKA: The Russian Dream That Failed traces the ambitious and disasterous Soviet attempt to conquer a vast arctic region spanning half of the top of the world. A veil of secrecy that enveloped the Russian Arctic during the Soviet era has lifted. As hundreds of thousands of Russians evacuate the north, leaving behind a legacy of environmental destruction and nuclear waste, the story of the Soviet dream of conquering the Arctic-and its cost-can be told.
ed2k: 041007.cbc.the.nature.of.things.arktika.the.russian.dream.that.failed.640x480.xvi...tering.leper.avi [689.19 Mb] [Stats]
Killed By Care: Makeing Medicine Safe (600x352)
698MB
In Canada alone it's estimated that between 9,000 and 24,000 people die every year as a result of medical error. The Nature of Things presents Killed By Care: Making Medicine Safe a one hour documentary that explores the tragic consequences of medical error and the devastating impact it can have on patients, their families and on health care workers as well.
ed2k: 041028.cbc.the.nature.of.things.killed.by.care.making.medicine.safe.600x352.divx....tering.leper.avi [698.48 Mb] [Stats]
Tale of a Tiny Bird (640x352)
695MB
Magic and understanding blossom when an imaginative young girl meets the King of the Songbirds. Travelling with him, to his kingdom among the dunes of Courland on the Baltic, she is granted unprecedented access to the private lives of tiny birds. She also gets a chance to observe scientists, who have devoted their lives to studying birds and their epic migratory journeys. A film rich in wonder, compassion and quiet humour.
ed2k: 041104.cbc.the.nature.of.things.tale.of.a.tiny.bird.640x352.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [695.90 Mb] [Stats]
Apocalypse Cow: The Mad Cow Story (640x352)
1.36GB
APOCALYPSE COW is a two-part story about Mad Cow Disease - a rare brain disorder of cattle that has the ability to jump species. The Mad Cow epidemic started in the United Kingdom and has spread to more than 20 countries around the world. It is also a story about cover-up and greed. APOCALYPSE COW examines new information on the tangled history and origins of the outbreak, exploring its potential impact on human health.
1of2 ed2k: 041118.cbc.the.nature.of.things.apocalypse.cow.the.mad.cow.story.1of2.640x352.xvi...tering.leper.avi [698.32 Mb] [Stats]
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Bhopal: The Search For Justice (640x352)
698MB
The December 2, 1984 release of poisonous methyl isocynate gas from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India has resulted in the deaths of 15,000 people and the maiming of hundreds of thousands more. It was, and remains, the world's worst industrial disaster. Twenty years later, amid charges of corruption and suppression of medical research, inadequate long term relief and compensation is being provided the survivors of a disaster that continues to claim victims today.
ed2k: 041209.cbc.the.nature.of.things.bhopal.the.search.for.justice.640x352.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [698.77 Mb] [Stats]
Forbidden Forest (640x352)
699MB
Jean Guy Comeau and Francis Wishart walk through ravaged landscapes: good wood left rotting on the ground, stagnant pools of water, uprooted trees blown over. Trenches more than 2 metres deep have been gouged into the ground by heavy machinery. This is clear-cutting in New Brunswick's Acadian forest. And what most people don't realize is that it's being done on public (or Crown) lands - lands that are supposed to be managed by the government on behalf of the people.
ed2k: 050106.cbc.the.nature.of.things.forbidden.forest.640x352.xvid.mp3.festering.leper.avi [699.23 Mb] [Stats]
Fighting Fire With Fire
698MB
Fighting Fire with Fire ventures into the forests of Banff National Park, where the park wardens are deliberately setting fires known as “prescribed burns.�
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