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The Nature of Things

Season 4

1964 · 11 episodes

  1. 1. 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.

  2. 2. 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.

  3. 3. 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.

  4. 4. 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.

  5. 5. Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease

    1964-06-02

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

  6. 6. 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.

  7. 7. 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.

  8. 8. 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.

  9. 9. Cartography

    1964-07-14

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

  10. 10. The World Of Water

    1964-07-21

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

  11. 11. Immunology

    1964-07-28

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

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