Future Earth 2025

Watch: Future Earth 2025 on cbc.ca

Future Earth 2025 takes us on an extraordinary CGI journey into the future offering a vision of what the world might be like if we continue to deplete one of our primary resources - water. Los Angeles consumed by raging firestorms, Rome under attack from billons of locusts, Washington DC flooded, massive dust storms engulfing Las Vegas, nations suffering drought as rivers dry up, forcing conflicts over water. Just the stuff of apocalyptic Hollywood movies?

Its estimated the world's ever growing propulation will need 50% more water in the next 20 years. Future Earth 2025 creates credible disaster scenarios based on changing weather and rain patterns, and uses the testimony of world leading scientists and engineers to project the future, and explore how these disasters can be diverted by adopting new technologies and making changes to the way we live. Future Earth 2025 is produced by UK based Darlow Smithson.

source: cbc.ca - http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearth2025/

My Pet Dinosaur

Watch: BBC Horizon - My Pet Dinosaur on youtube.com

If only those dinosaurs hadn't been so unlucky, they may have been living among us today! Imagine the uses we humans could find for a creature so...huge. Would you have one as a pet, or eat one for dinner? What would evolution have done for them, and would we even be here, along with all the animals we know in our current world? BBC explores these question with experts who share the excitement anyone would when imagining this alternate universe.

Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool

Watch:
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 1 on youtube
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 2 on youtube
Karl Pilkington - Satisfied Fool, Part 3 on youtube

"A part of me wishes I did try a bit harder [at school] just because of mates I know now who are always saying, ah y'know, "Karl you're stupid and stuff. You don't know enough, you should know more" and all that. But I'm also thinking that, being intelligent, does is make you happier anyway? So yeah, that's sort of what I'm trying to find out really."

Karl Pilkington, who you may know as the round-headed sidekick of one Ricky Gervais, explores his intellect and why he should care in this Channel 4 documentary. Karl goes through testing from big thinkers, including David Icke to see how he stacks up - and whether he's any better off for it.

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Shock Wave

Watch: CBC DocZone: Shock Wave on CBC.ca

Earthquakes, like the one that caused the Indian Ocean disaster of December 26, 2004, tend to repeat themselves. The waves they generate can circle the globe with devastating consequences. Recently, scientists discovered that the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the west coast of North America has ruptured at least 37 times in the past 10,000 years and it will rupture again...but when? The crack in the ocean floor from Cape Mendocino, California to central Vancouver Island is nearly identical to the subduction zone that ruptured off Sumatra, which led to the tsunami that killed approximately 230,000 people. The Pacific Northwest can expect a nearly identical earthquake. Five major cities (Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland and Sacramento) plus hundreds of small towns along a thousand kilometres of coastline will be heavily damaged. The first tsunami waves will hit the beach twenty minutes later. But Shock Wave is not just another "doomsday flick." It's the story of people on the front lines of science, engineering and emergency planning who, along with thousands of volunteers, are finding ways to help our communities survive the next rupture.

source: cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/shockwave/)