The Nature of Things Season 1

Season 1

Air date: 1960-11-06

Episodes: 25

Episodes

E1: Why Is It So?

Air date: 1960-11-06

E2: The Roar of the Crowd

Study of brain cells, how research has helped the understanding of learning and memory. Filmed at the Montreal Neurological Institute, with Dr. Wilder Penfield and Dr. Herbert Jasper

Air date: 1960-11-13

E3: The Future of Science

Professor Donald Ivey probes the attitudes and working habits of scientists

Air date: 1960-11-20

E4: Schizophrenia

Air date: 1960-11-27

E5: Engineering

Air date: 1960-12-04

E6: Man as an Environment

Air date: 1960-12-11

E7: Science Fiction

Air date: 1960-12-18

E8: A special Christmas edition

Air date: 1960-12-25

E9: The Aurora-Borealis

Air date: 1961-01-01

E10: Man as an Environment – Human Body

Air date: 1961-01-08

E11: Kept Alive

Air date: 1961-01-15

E12: Physics and Games – Laws of Probability

Air date: 1961-01-22

E13: The Face of the Moon

Air date: 1961-01-29

E14: Hibernation

Air date: 1961-02-05

E15: Man and His Environment

Air date: 1961-02-12

E16: Eclipse

Air date: 1961-02-19

E17: Animal Communication

Air date: 1961-02-26

E18: The Speed of Light

Air date: 1961-03-05

E19: Monotony

Dr. John Zubec of the University of Manitoba explains his experiments and studies on boredom and its effects on the human mind

Air date: 1961-03-12

E20: The Chemical Senses

Air date: 1961-03-19

E21: The Mohole: Earth's Crust

Air date: 1961-04-02

E22: Laws of Conservation

Air date: 1961-04-16

E23: Photosynthesis

Air date: 1961-04-23

E24: Physics of Clouds

Air date: 1961-04-30

E25: The Sources of Science

Air date: 1961-05-07