The Nature of Things - Season 16

Season Debut: A two-part film about the ease in which little children learn languages.

Severely deaf children learn to speak like normal children with the aid of powerfully sensitive hearing aids and teaching techniques being used by dedicated teachers.

A look at Sable Island, about 100 miles off Nova Scotia, where the wildlife has had an unusual evolution because it is separated from the mainland.

Unique life forms in a pond.

Visible and microscopic life at the edge of a pond.

Documentary on prairie dogs and one colony in particular in South Dakota.

The fruit fly is used as the focus for a discussion of mutations, current genetic research and the relationship of this research to some of the problems suffered by humans.

The program shows how psychological experiments support those who believe that community and citizen control over their own environment is essential to the well being of city dwellers.