The Nature of Things

  • Estrenada: Nov 1960
  • Episodios: 1046
  • Seguidores: 14
  • En emisión
  • CBC
  • Jueves a las 20
  • Documentary

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Temporada 4
4x1
Physics in Sports
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Fecha de emisión
Abr 19, 1964
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4x1
Einstein, Man & Mathematician
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Fecha de emisión
May 05, 1964
An examination of the personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr. Jacob Bronowski of the Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California, one of the most .. show full overview
4x2
About the Size of It
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Fecha de emisión
May 12, 1964
Scientist and broadcaster William Whitehead and Dr. W.E. Swinton, Director of the Royal Ontario Museum discuss how size differences in the animal kingdom are the result of their .. show full overview
4x3
Standards for Comparison
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Fecha de emisión
May 19, 1964
Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr. Patterson Hume and Dr. Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto.
4x4
Excursion Into Hell
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Fecha de emisión
May 26, 1964
Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of the earth believed that a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps. From this belief came the word "malaria," which .. show full overview
4x5
Surgery for Parkinson's Disease
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Fecha de emisión
Jun 02, 1964
This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease. The actual brain operation is seen, an an electric probe is inserted in the brain to destroy the .. show full overview
4x6
Science in Sports
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Fecha de emisión
Jun 09, 1964
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. Gordie Howe is one of the athletes shown.
4x7
Lasers
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Fecha de emisión
Jun 30, 1964
Dr. Patterson Hume and Dr. Donald Ivey explain the recent developments of the laser beam since 1960, how it works, and its potential uses in medicine, war and communications.
4x8
Blood, Sea and Tears
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Fecha de emisión
Jul 07, 1964
Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of the early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors. Our blood is packaged sea water. This program is a study of the relation .. show full overview
4x9
Cartography
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Fecha de emisión
Jul 14, 1964
Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and the problems of taking a spherical object, the earth, and representing it in two dimensional form such as the Mercator .. show full overview
4x10
The World of Water
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Fecha de emisión
Jul 21, 1964
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water, its properties and its importance as a solvent of enormous quantaties of minerals, its .. show full overview
4x12 Final de temporada
The Way the Ball Bounces
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Fecha de emisión
Jul 28, 1964
Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey demonstrate the principles behind the bounce in a rubber ball. The atomic structure of rubber - its atoms are connected in polymer chains - is shown.
4x11
Immunology
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Fecha de emisión
Ago 04, 1964
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and the new study of immunology - how to make the body repress its defence system .. show full overview

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