The Nature of Things Season 4

Season 4

Air date: 1964-05-05

Episodes: 11

Episodes

E1: Einstein, Man & Mathematician

An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.

Air date: 1964-05-05

E2: About The Size Of It

Scientist and broadcaster William Whitehead and Dr WE Swinton, Director of Royal Ontario Museum discuss how size differences in animal kingdom are result of their environment and their habits.

Air date: 1964-05-12

E3: Standards For Comparison

Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.

Air date: 1964-05-19

E4: Excursion Into Hell

Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.

Air date: 1964-05-26

E5: Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease

This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.

Air date: 1964-06-02

E6: Science In Sports

Host Lister Sinclair and guest Lloyd Percival, sports authority, discuss and demonstrate how various sporting activities can now be precisely measured and how they can thus be improved.

Air date: 1964-06-09

E7: Lasers

Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey explain recent developments of laser beam since 1960, how it works, and its potential uses in medicine, war and communications.

Air date: 1964-06-30

E8: Blood, Sea And Tears

Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.

Air date: 1964-07-07

E9: Cartography

Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.

Air date: 1964-07-14

E10: The World Of Water

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.

Air date: 1964-07-21

E11: Immunology

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.

Air date: 1964-07-28