
The Nature of Things
Season 7
196617 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Sun
1966-06-20
An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.
- E2
Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge
1966-06-27
The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.
- E3
Air And Water Pollution
1966-07-04
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.
- E4
The Battle Against Biting Insects
1966-07-11
An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.
- E5
Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made
1966-07-18
This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.
- E6
The Physics Of Sailing
1966-07-25
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.
- E7
Epidemics
1966-08-01
Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.
- E8
Summer Storms
1966-08-08
A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.
- E9
Fishing And The Splake
1966-08-15
Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.
- E10
The Value Of Our Parks
1966-08-22
This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.
- E11
Forest And Fires
1966-08-29
This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.
- E12
Water On The Level
1966-09-05
There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.
- E13
Galapagos: Darwin
1966-09-04
First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.
- E14
Galapagos: The Islands
1966-09-11
A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.
- E15
Galapagos: New Beings
1966-09-18
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
- E16
Galapagos: Ways Of Survival
1966-09-25
Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.
- E17
Galapagos: Living Laboratory
1966-10-02
This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.
