Humanities

The 2009 Massey Lectures series is an enlightening, awe-inspiring and cautionary look at vanishing cultures and languages from Wade Davis, one of the world’s most celebrated anthropologists.

This moving documentary chronicles the last 18 months in the life of a courageous woman who battled a fatal disease while fighting for her legal right to doctor-assisted suicide.

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Gerontologist Michael Rose explores the cutting-edge science in life extension: biotechnology, genetic research, therapeutic cloning and stem-cell research.

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What if your ability to speak or understand speech was taken away with no warning? This is what happens to people with aphasia, a condition that can occur with stroke or brain injury.

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The intriguing four-part series The Adventurers from The Nature of Things is about maverick explorers searching for vanishing populations, lost cultures and hidden cities.

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The only certain thing about lying: everyone does it, and we can't easily detect it. In this provocative documentary, world-class specialists share their findings about the art of the untruth.

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This Nature of Things documentary follows Canadian Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson on a visually stunning journey across the North to trace the origins of the modern Inuit.

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