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The Nature of Things

Season 2 · 24 episodes · Jan 4, 1962

  1. Episode 1

    Looking Ahead

    Jan 4, 1962

  2. Episode 2

    Photography in Science

    Jan 11, 1962

  3. Episode 3

    To Educate a Scientist

    Jan 18, 1962

  4. Episode 4

    The Situation Is Fluid

    Jan 25, 1962

  5. Episode 5

    Gallstones

    Feb 1, 1962

  6. Episode 6

    The Upper Mantle Project

    Feb 8, 1962

  7. Episode 7

    The Physics of Music

    Feb 22, 1962

  8. Episode 8

    Survival

    Mar 1, 1962

    An appraisal of the probable effects of a large-scale nuclear blast over a North American city. Dr. Tom Stonier of the Rockefeller Institute of Government discusses what can be expected to happen to people and property as a result of such a blast.

  9. Episode 9

    Man and the Moon

    Mar 8, 1962

  10. Episode 10

    Hibernating Molecules

    Mar 15, 1962

    Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume talk about conditions at extremely cold temperatures, when matter 'hibernates' and molecular action slows almost to a complete stop, and how this allows physicists to study the basic structure of matter.

  11. Episode 11

    Monkey Curiosity

    Mar 29, 1962

  12. Episode 12

    Spermatozoa

    Apr 5, 1962

    Lord Rothschild of the University of Cambridge describes the results of his research in the field of spermatozoa

  13. Episode 13

    Animals With Feathers

    Apr 12, 1962

    Dr. William Swinton, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Life Sciences Department, and John Livingston, executive director of the National Audubon Society, trace the history of birds

  14. Episode 14

    Getting the Upper Hand

    Apr 26, 1962

  15. Episode 15

    Thinking about Math

    May 3, 1962

    Host Lister Sinclair discusses the thinking that goes into the science of mathematics. Using animated film and studio demonstrations, he explains Mathematical logic

  16. Episode 16

    The Plague

    May 10, 1962

  17. Episode 17

    Instant Heat

    May 17, 1962

    Co-hosted by Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey, of the University of Toronto. They show how electricity can be produced directly from heat, and vice versa, and discuss the difficulties of transforming thermal energy into electrical energy.

  18. Episode 18

    A Science Newsreel

    May 24, 1962

  19. Episode 19

    Learning

    Jun 7, 1962

  20. Episode 20

    A Bang-Up Job

    Jun 21, 1962

  21. Episode 21

    Out of Africa

    Jun 28, 1962

  22. Episode 22

    Count on Me

    Jul 5, 1962

    Computers are given the once-over by Drs. Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.

  23. Episode 23

    Blood in the Balance

    Jul 19, 1962

  24. Episode 24

    Episode 24

    Jul 26, 1962

    Examines work of Dr. William Sheldon, who has spent 30 years gathering statistics about the human physique, classifying body types, and correlating this information to medical and psychiatric studies