The Nature of Things

Season 4

11 episodes · May 5, 1964

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  • S4E1

    Einstein, Man & Mathematician

    May 5, 1964

    An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.

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  • S4E2

    About The Size Of It

    May 12, 1964

    Scientist and broadcaster William Whitehead and Dr WE Swinton, Director of Royal Ontario Museum discuss how size differences in animal kingdom are result of their environment and their habits.

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  • S4E3

    Standards For Comparison

    May 19, 1964

    Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.

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  • S4E4

    Excursion Into Hell

    May 26, 1964

    Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.

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  • S4E5

    Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease

    Jun 2, 1964

    This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.

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  • S4E6

    Science In Sports

    Jun 9, 1964

    Host Lister Sinclair and guest Lloyd Percival, sports authority, discuss and demonstrate how various sporting activities can now be precisely measured and how they can thus be improved.

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  • S4E7

    Lasers

    Jun 30, 1964

    Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey explain recent developments of laser beam since 1960, how it works, and its potential uses in medicine, war and communications.

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  • S4E8

    Blood, Sea And Tears

    Jul 7, 1964

    Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.

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  • S4E9

    Cartography

    Jul 14, 1964

    Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.

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  • S4E10

    The World Of Water

    Jul 21, 1964

    In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.

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  • S4E11

    Immunology

    Jul 28, 1964

    In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.

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