The Nature of Things

Season 7

17 episodes · Jun 20, 1966

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  • S7E1

    The Sun

    Jun 20, 1966

    An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.

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  • S7E2

    Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge

    Jun 27, 1966

    The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.

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  • S7E3

    Air And Water Pollution

    Jul 4, 1966

    This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are poured into air and water than these elements have capacity to deal with.

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  • S7E4

    The Battle Against Biting Insects

    Jul 11, 1966

    An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.

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  • S7E5

    Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made

    Jul 18, 1966

    This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.

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  • S7E6

    The Physics Of Sailing

    Jul 25, 1966

    The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific efforts to understand why sailing ships do what they do.

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  • S7E7

    Epidemics

    Aug 1, 1966

    Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.

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  • S7E8

    Summer Storms

    Aug 8, 1966

    A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.

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  • S7E9

    Fishing And The Splake

    Aug 15, 1966

    Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.

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  • S7E10

    The Value Of Our Parks

    Aug 22, 1966

    This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.

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  • S7E11

    Forest And Fires

    Aug 29, 1966

    This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.

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  • S7E12

    Water On The Level

    Sep 5, 1966

    There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.

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  • S7E13

    Galapagos: Darwin

    Sep 4, 1966

    First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.

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  • S7E14

    Galapagos: The Islands

    Sep 11, 1966

    A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.

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  • S7E15

    Galapagos: New Beings

    Sep 18, 1966

    An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding group of a plant or animal species can give rise to a number of new species

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  • S7E16

    Galapagos: Ways Of Survival

    Sep 25, 1966

    Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.

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  • S7E17

    Galapagos: Living Laboratory

    Oct 2, 1966

    This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.

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