The Nature of Things

  • Premiera: Lis 1960
  • Odcinki: 1046
  • Obserwujący: 14
  • Trwający
  • CBC
  • Czwartek w 20
  • Documentary

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Why Is It So
Episode overview
Data emisji
Lis 06, 1960
First program in a new series on science. This program looks ahead to some of the subjects to be examined in the ensuing weeks. Seen are: Dr. J.W.R. Steacie, President of the National .. show full overview
1x2
The Roar of the Crowd : Brain Surgery
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Data emisji
Lis 13, 1960
A look at research on the human brain at the Montreal Neurological Institute under Dr. Wilder Penfield. Program includes: host Lister Sinclair and Dr. Donald Ivey on the basic scientific .. show full overview
1x3
The future of science
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Data emisji
Lis 20, 1960
This week's program will probe the attitudes and working habits of the scientist, and try to decide where the future of science lies.
1x4
Schizophrenia
Episode overview
Data emisji
Lis 27, 1960
Presents a study of the most prevalent of mental diseases, schizophrenia.
1x5
Engineering
Episode overview
Data emisji
Gru 04, 1960
This show will discuss Engineering as a Science.
1x6
Man as an Environment
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Data emisji
Gru 11, 1960
Members of the plant and animal kingdom will be shown at work and at war. Films for the show were collected by science writer Maurice Constant. They show that man is the most successful .. show full overview
1x7
Science Fiction
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Data emisji
Gru 18, 1960
In this program, American scientist and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov examines a selection of brief science fiction plots by Toronto writer Rod Coneybeare in an attempt to explain .. show full overview
1x8
A special Christmas edition
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Data emisji
Gru 25, 1960
The program takes a light-hearted look at the scientific aspects of a modern Christmas. For instance, ingenious new methods of turkey carving will be demonstrated; flashing and bubbling .. show full overview
1x9
The Aurora-Borealis
Episode overview
Data emisji
Sty 01, 1961
An examination of scientific theories about the aurora borealis or the Northern Lights. Includes: readings from historical literature describing the phenomenon; Dr. B.W. Curie, Physics, .. show full overview
1x10
Man as an Environment - Human Body
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Data emisji
Sty 08, 1961
An examinaton of the human body as an environment for the billions of tiny organisms living within it. Includes film footage of: underwater life - crab, octopus, eel; amoeba; human .. show full overview
1x11
Kept Alive
Episode overview
Data emisji
Sty 15, 1961
An examination of the newest methods of "quick freezing" animal tissues and organs by immersion in -321 Fahrenheit liquid nitrogen. Dr. Louis Rey shows and discusses his experiments on this subject in Paris.
1x12
Physics and Games - Laws of Probability
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Data emisji
Sty 22, 1961
An examination of the laws of probability and their uses in science. Co-hosts Professor Donald Ivey and Professor Patterson Hume demonstrate the laws of probability in games of chance .. show full overview
1x13
The Face of the Moon
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Data emisji
Sty 29, 1961
Donald MacRae, Professor of Astronomy at David Dunlap Observatory, Richmond Hill, explains what man knows about the moon and how he knows it. The program includes detailed photographs of .. show full overview
1x14
Hibernation
Episode overview
Data emisji
Lut 05, 1961
An examination of the phemonena of winter hibernation and how its study may assist those with heart defects.
1x15
Man and His Environment
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Data emisji
Lut 12, 1961
An examination of how man adapts to the various environments on earth - the arctic, the tropics, the desert - and what the consequences are for man and for the other living organisms .. show full overview
1x16
Eclipse
Episode overview
Data emisji
Lut 19, 1961
A special half-hour Eurovision program from the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Yugoslavia, covering the eclipse of the sun by the moon shortly after dawn on 15 February 1961. After a .. show full overview
1x17
Animal Communication
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Data emisji
Lut 26, 1961
An examination of the various forms and modes of animal communication. Sound, colour, odour, pattern, and movement together or separately can tell animals much about their enemies, the .. show full overview
1x18
The Speed of Light
Episode overview
Data emisji
Mar 05, 1961
This program shows how the speed of light is measured and what it means. Although light's speed in a vacuum seems a universal absolute, research now suggests the presence of varieties of light that move even faster.
1x19
Monotony
Episode overview
Data emisji
Mar 12, 1961
Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains some of his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind.
1x20
The Chemical Senses
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Data emisji
Mar 19, 1961
Dr. R. Wright of the British Columbia Research Council discusses his theory of how our senses of taste and smell work, and how they serve the biological system. Film demonstrates these .. show full overview
1x21
The Mohole : Earth's Crust
Episode overview
Data emisji
Kwi 02, 1961
Dr. J. Tuzo Wilson, University of Toronto, talks with host Dr. Donald Ivey about the nature of the earth's core beneath its crust and the ways scientists have of finding out about it. .. show full overview
1x25 Finał sezonu
The Sources of Science
Episode overview
Data emisji
Kwi 07, 1961
What is science and where does it come from? Through a study of one of the oldest scientific societies in the world, the Hoyal Society of London, this program shows science at work, and suggests the scope and nature of the life in science.
1x22
Laws of Conservation
Episode overview
Data emisji
Kwi 16, 1961
Hosts Dr. Patterson Hume and Dr. Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto explain the laws of conservation of matter and energy.
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Photosynthesis
Episode overview
Data emisji
Kwi 23, 1961
How plants live is one of the classic problems confronting biochemists. Guest Professor R.G.S. Bidwell, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, demonstrates the way in which simple .. show full overview
1x24
Physics of Clouds
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Data emisji
Kwi 30, 1961
Drs. Stewart Marshall and W.F. Hitschfield of the Stormy Weather Group at McGill University explain what clouds are and how they form. The program makes use of film shot in Alberta and .. show full overview

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