The Nature of Things

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  • : 1960
  • : 1046
  • : 15
  • CBC
  • 20
  • Documentary

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Brainwashing
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02, 1962
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Electronics H & I.
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09, 1962
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Looking Ahead
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06, 1963
Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on the season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items during its 26-week run.
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Brainwashing
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13, 1963
British psychaitrist Dr. William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of the mind, changing patterns of behaviour, breakdown and religious cults.
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Tubes to Transistors
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20, 1963
Hosts Dr. Patterson Hume and Dr. Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto talk about the electronics age brought about by the vacuum tube and the transistor.
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From Water to Land
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27, 1963
Palaeontologist Dr. Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains the evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.
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Chemistry of Salt
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03, 1963
Dr. Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about the sources and chemistry of salt and the industrial applications of salt and its components.
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Ear Operation
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10, 1963
Film of an ear operation from the BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr. Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist. This operation is observed through the surgeon's .. show full overview
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The Way the Ball Bounces
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17, 1963
Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate the principles behind the bounce in a rubber ball, and discuss elasticity by comparing rubber and steel.
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Lie Detectors
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24, 1963
This program examines the autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal. Dr. John Rich, a psychiatrist with Toronto and Queen's Universities is host. In police .. show full overview
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Smoking and Lung Cancer
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03, 1963
In cooperation with the National Cancer Institute and the Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores the results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America. Host .. show full overview
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Science Museum
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10, 1963
A report on the need for a Canadian science museum. Host Lister Sinclair visits the Deutsches Science Museum in Munich and the science section of the British Museum. Includes filmed .. show full overview
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Tornadoe
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24, 1963
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The Descent of Man
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24, 1963
Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. In the Olduvai Gorge, Kenya, Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and .. show full overview
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Isaac Newton
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07, 1963
Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture the spirit of the time through the words of Newton himself and some of his contemporaries.
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New Atoms for Old
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14, 1963
Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto explain the value of atoms and the care needed in handling them because of their radio-active properties.
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Car Crashes
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21, 1963
What happens in a car crash - to the car and to its occupants? What causes a crash? Can personality characteristics contribute to car accidents? Canadian writer Rita Greer Allen, who .. show full overview
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April 28, 1963
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28, 1963
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Bird Migration
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05, 1963
In this program the origins and patterns of bird migration, and the latest theories of bird orientation and navigation, are discussed with Dr. William W.H. Gunn of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.
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Fact & Fiction
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12, 1963
Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume of the University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis, and compare the scientific experimenter with the scientific theoretician.
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Code of Life
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19, 1963
Dr. Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity, particularly recent study and research on the .. show full overview
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The Chemistry of Bread
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26, 1963
Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in the baking of one loaf of bread. On .. show full overview
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The Infra-Red
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02, 1963
Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses. In the animal kingdom, pit vipers (rattle-snakes and others) locate their prey by .. show full overview
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Human Overpopulation
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09, 1963
In the aftermath of the industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, the human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now .. show full overview
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Mars
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16, 1963
Lister Sinclair talks to leading scientists about Mars and plans for observing the planet from close range: Dr. Albert G. Wilson, a former director of the Lowell Observatory, now with .. show full overview
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Spiders
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23, 1963
Man has not ignored the spider - even before interest in them could be called scientific, spiders gave rise to constant legends and myths and were involved in medicine, art, history, and .. show full overview
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Hypnosis
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30, 1963
Dr. Martin T. Orne of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School discusses the subject of hypnosis. Hypnosis has become an important tool for medical science - .. show full overview

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