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25 Episodes 1963 - 1963
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 6, 1963
Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items.
Episode 2
Sun, Jan 13, 1963
British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind.
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 20, 1963
Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor.
Episode 4
Sun, Jan 27, 1963
Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.
Episode 5
Sun, Feb 3, 1963
Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial applications of salt and its components.
Episode 6
Sun, Feb 10, 1963
Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist.
Episode 7
Sun, Feb 17, 1963
Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball,.
Episode 8
Sun, Feb 24, 1963
This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.
Episode 9
Sun, Mar 3, 1963
In cooperation with National Cancer Institute and Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America.
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 10, 1963
A report on need for a Canadian science museum. Host Lister Sinclair visits Deutsches Science Museum in Munich and science section of British Museum.
Episode 11
Sun, Mar 24, 1963
Episode 12
Sun, Mar 24, 1963
Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on ancestry and evolution of man.
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 7, 1963
Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture spirit of time.
Episode 14
Sun, Apr 14, 1963
Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of University of Toronto explain value of atoms and care needed in handling them because of their radio-active properties.
Episode 15
Sun, Apr 21, 1963
What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash? Can personality characteristics contribute to car accidents? Canadian writer Rita Greer Allen, who last year sustained a broken neck in a car crash
Episode 16
Sun, Apr 28, 1963
Episode 17
Sun, May 5, 1963
In this program origins and patterns of bird migration, and latest theories of bird orientation and navigation, are discussed with Dr William WH Gunn of Federation of Ontario Naturalists.
Episode 18
Sun, May 12, 1963
Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis,.
Episode 19
Sun, May 19, 1963
Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity.
Episode 20
Sun, May 26, 1963
Baking bread may be a familiar process, but it is by no means a simple one. A very great number of fundamental chemical actions are demonstrated in baking of one loaf of bread.
Episode 21
Sun, Jun 2, 1963
Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.
Episode 22
Sun, Jun 9, 1963
In aftermath of industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about future food supply.
Episode 23
Sun, Jun 16, 1963
Lister Sinclair talks to leading scientists about Mars and plans for observing planet from close range: Dr Albert G.
Episode 24
Sun, Jun 23, 1963
Man has not ignored spider - even before interest in them could be called scientific, spiders gave rise to constant legends and myths.
Episode 25
Sun, Jun 30, 1963
Dr Martin T. Orne of Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School discusses subject of hypnosis.