The Nature of Things

Season 3

24 episodes · Jan 6, 1963

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  • S3E1

    Episode 1

    Jan 6, 1963

    Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items.

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  • S3E2

    Brainwashing

    Jan 13, 1963

    British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind.

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  • S3E3

    Tubes To Transistors

    Jan 20, 1963

    Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor.

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  • S3E4

    From Water To Land

    Jan 27, 1963

    Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.

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  • S3E5

    Chemistry Of Salt

    Feb 3, 1963

    Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial applications of salt and its components.

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  • S3E6

    Ear Operation

    Feb 10, 1963

    Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist.

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  • S3E7

    The Way The Ball Bounces

    Feb 17, 1963

    Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball.

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  • S3E8

    Lie Detectors

    Feb 24, 1963

    This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.

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  • S3E9

    Smoking And Lung Cancer

    Mar 3, 1963

    In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America.

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  • S3E10

    Science Museum

    Mar 10, 1963

    To commemorate the Canadian Centennial in 1967 it has been proposed that Canada build a national museum of science. The program includes filmed demonstrations of how science and technology can be made meaningful to the general public.

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  • S3E11

    Tornadoes

    Mar 24, 1963
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  • S3E12

    The Descent of Man

    Mar 31, 1963

    Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist, unearthed fossil remains in the Olduvai Gorge that have extended the time scale of human evolution from 500,000 to two million years or more. A deductive story in anthropology and paleontology is told as Dr. Leakey describes his finds and interprets their significance

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  • S3E13

    Isaac Newton

    Apr 7, 1963

    Series consultant Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Sir Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture the spirit of the time through the words of Newton himself and those of his contemporaries

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  • S3E14

    New Atoms For Old

    Apr 14, 1963
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  • S3E15

    Car Crashes

    Apr 21, 1963

    What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash?

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  • S3E16

    Bird Migration

    May 5, 1963
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  • S3E17

    Fact & Fiction

    May 12, 1963

    Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis.

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  • S3E18

    Code of Life

    May 19, 1963

    Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity.

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  • S3E19

    The Chemistry Of Bread

    May 26, 1963

    Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in baking of one loaf of bread

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  • S3E20

    The Infra-Red

    Jun 2, 1963

    Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.

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  • S3E21

    Human Overpopulation

    Jun 9, 1963

    In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about future food supply.

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  • S3E22

    Mars

    Jun 16, 1963
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  • S3E23

    Spiders

    Jun 23, 1963
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  • S3E24

    Hypnosis

    Jun 30, 1963
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