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The Nature of Things Season 41, Episode 9: Amanda's Choice

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Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemma: whether or not to be tested for the faulty gene that will bring on Alzheimer's Disease by her mid-30s, as happened with her mother and other generations in her family. It is a disease that always leads to early death. Watch The Nature of Things Season 41, Episode 9 Amanda's Choice in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Nature of Things Season 41, Episode 9 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

19 episodes
1

Nuclear Dynamite

2

Breath of Life

3

Spare Parts

4

Lost Worlds: Wild South America

5

Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Monkey Jungles

6

Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Amazon Jungle

7

Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Mighty Amazon

South America is a land of extremes. It boasts the world's longest mountain chain, the Andes; the mightiest river, the Amazon; the largest rainforest, the driest desert and the richest sea.
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Lost Worlds: Wild South America: The Andes

9

Amanda's Choice

Amanda is an insightful 19-year-old from Timmins, Ontario. She has a three-year-old son and a dilemma: whether or not to be tested for the faulty gene that will bring on Alzheimer's Disease by her mid-30s, as happened with her mother and other generations in her family. It is a disease that always leads to early death.
10

The Secret Life of the Crash Test Dummy

11

Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Penguin Shores

PENGUIN SHORES is part five of the magnificent six-part BBC series Lost Worlds, covering the amazingly diverse topography of South America, and its remarkable denizens. The world's longest mountain chain stretches from the tropics to the massive Patagonian Ice Sheet of sub-Antarctica. Its icy power dominates the lives of the hardy animals that dare to call it home, making living there one of nature's greatest challenges.
12

Lost Worlds: Wild South America: Great Plains

Lost Worlds - A six-part series on the breath-taking natural world of South America takes viewers on a cross-continent grand tour - from the mighty Amazon to the spectacular Andean peaks and the world's driest desert - stopping to view the strange and wonderful array of animals, birds and other wildlife along the way. Produced by the BBC. Narrated by David Suzuki.
13

Coastal Forest/Salmon Forest

14

The Price of Salmon

Salmon are considered an excellent source of nutrition. And farmed salmon provide it inexpensively. But at what cost? The Price of Salmon explores the complex issues involved with aquaculture.
15

Surgeons of the Future

16

Maisin People In Papua New Guinea

17

Toxic Legacies

18

Hospital at the End of the Earth

19

Worst Case Scenario

Albertans have traditionally been proud of their mighty petroleum industry. But lately, they have begun to question how that industry works. Nowhere is this shift more apparent than along the Clearwater River in Central Alberta, near Rocky Mountain House. There, residents are opposing Shell Canada's plans to drill a sour gas well in their area. The sour gas from the well could generate $10,000 a day in gross revenue, to meet today's high energy demands.