The Nature of Things

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Why Is It So
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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
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The Roar of the Crowd : Brain Surgery
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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
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The future of science
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This week's program will probe the attitudes and working habits of the scientist, and try to decide where the future of science lies.
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Schizophrenia
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Presents a study of the most prevalent of mental diseases, schizophrenia.
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Engineering
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This show will discuss Engineering as a Science.
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Man as an Environment
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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
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Science Fiction
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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
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A special Christmas edition
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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
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The Aurora-Borealis
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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
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Man as an Environment - Human Body
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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
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Kept Alive
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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.
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Physics and Games - Laws of Probability
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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
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The Face of the Moon
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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
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Hibernation
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An examination of the phemonena of winter hibernation and how its study may assist those with heart defects.
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Man and His Environment
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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
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Eclipse
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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
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Animal Communication
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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
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The Speed of Light
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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.
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Monotony
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Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains some of his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind.
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The Chemical Senses
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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
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The Mohole : Earth's Crust
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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
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The Sources of Science
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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.
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Laws of Conservation
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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
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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
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Physics of Clouds
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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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