The Nature of Things Season 2

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Season 2

Air date: 1962-01-04

Episodes: 24

Episodes

E1: Looking Ahead

Air date: 1962-01-04

E2: Photography in Science

Air date: 1962-01-11

E3: To Educate a Scientist

Air date: 1962-01-18

E4: The Situation Is Fluid

Air date: 1962-01-25

E5: Gallstones

Air date: 1962-02-01

E6: The Upper Mantle Project

Air date: 1962-02-08

E7: The Physics of Music

Air date: 1962-02-22

E8: Survival

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.

Air date: 1962-03-01

E9: Man and the Moon

Air date: 1962-03-08

E10: Hibernating Molecules

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.

Air date: 1962-03-15

E11: Monkey Curiosity

Air date: 1962-03-29

E12: Spermatozoa

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

Air date: 1962-04-05

E13: Animals With Feathers

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

Air date: 1962-04-12

E14: Getting the Upper Hand

Air date: 1962-04-26

E15: Thinking about Math

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

Air date: 1962-05-03

E16: The Plague

Air date: 1962-05-10

E17: Instant Heat

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.

Air date: 1962-05-17

E18: A Science Newsreel

Air date: 1962-05-24

E19: Learning

Air date: 1962-06-07

E20: A Bang-Up Job

Air date: 1962-06-21

E21: Out of Africa

Air date: 1962-06-28

E22: Count on Me

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

Air date: 1962-07-05

E23: Blood in the Balance

Air date: 1962-07-19

E24: Episode 24

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

Air date: 1962-07-26