Human Nature

A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.

In the Running

Dan Rather Reports takes viewers to the tiny Kenyan farming village of Iten – where many live without running water or electricity. However, Iten happens to be home to more world class runners than any other place on earth – including all six Kenyan Olympic marathoners.

Range War

“Range War” focuses on the battle for the future of Montana’s great plains being waged by three very different groups. On one side, a coalition of environmentalists seek to create one of the largest private wildlife reserves in North America and Native Americans seek to reconnect with a way of life that died when they were put on reservations. While the state’s powerful cattle interests take the opposite view, and argue those plains are for livestock grazing, and no conservation experiment should be allowed to change that. It is a battle being fought in farms across Montana, and also the courts and the state legislature.