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The Nature of Things

Season 1

1960 · 25 episodes

  1. 1. Why Is It So?

    1960-11-06

  2. 2. The Roar of the Crowd

    1960-11-13

    Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, with Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. Herbert Jasper

  3. 3. The Future of Science

    1960-11-20

    Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists

  4. 4. Schizophrenia

    1960-11-27

  5. 5. Engineering

    1960-12-04

  6. 6. Man as an Environment

    1960-12-11

  7. 7. Science Fiction

    1960-12-18

  8. 8. A special Christmas edition

    1960-12-25

  9. 9. The Aurora-Borealis

    1961-01-01

  10. 10. Man as an Environment – Human Body

    1961-01-08

  11. 11. Kept Alive

    1961-01-15

  12. 12. Physics and Games – Laws of Probability

    1961-01-22

  13. 13. The Face of the Moon

    1961-01-29

  14. 14. Hibernation

    1961-02-05

  15. 15. Man and His Environment

    1961-02-12

  16. 16. Eclipse

    1961-02-19

  17. 17. Animal Communication

    1961-02-26

  18. 18. The Speed of Light

    1961-03-05

  19. 19. Monotony

    1961-03-12

    Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind

  20. 20. The Chemical Senses

    1961-03-19

  21. 21. The Mohole: Earth's Crust

    1961-04-02

  22. 22. Laws of Conservation

    1961-04-16

  23. 23. Photosynthesis

    1961-04-23

  24. 24. Physics of Clouds

    1961-04-30

  25. 25. The Sources of Science

    1961-05-07

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