
The Nature of Things
Season 4
196411 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Einstein, Man & Mathematician
1964-05-05
An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.
- E2
About The Size Of It
1964-05-12
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.
- E3
Standards For Comparison
1964-05-19
Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.
- E4
Excursion Into Hell
1964-05-26
Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.
- E5
Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
1964-06-02
This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
- E6
Science In Sports
1964-06-09
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.
- E7
Lasers
1964-06-30
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.
- E8
Blood, Sea And Tears
1964-07-07
Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
- E9
Cartography
1964-07-14
Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
- E10
The World Of Water
1964-07-21
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
- E11
Immunology
1964-07-28
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.
