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The Nature of Things Season 7 Episodes

17 Episodes 1966 - 1966

Episode 1

The Sun

Mon, Jun 20, 1966

An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.

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Episode 2

Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge

Mon, Jun 27, 1966

The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.

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Episode 3

Air And Water Pollution

Mon, Jul 4, 1966

This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are poured into air and water than these elements have capacity to deal with.

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Episode 4

The Battle Against Biting Insects

Mon, Jul 11, 1966

An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.

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Episode 5

Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made

Mon, Jul 18, 1966

This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.

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Episode 6

The Physics Of Sailing

Mon, Jul 25, 1966

The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific efforts to understand why sailing ships do what they do.

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Episode 7

Epidemics

Mon, Aug 1, 1966

Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.

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Episode 8

Summer Storms

Mon, Aug 8, 1966

A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.

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Episode 9

Fishing And The Splake

Mon, Aug 15, 1966

Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.

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Episode 10

The Value Of Our Parks

Mon, Aug 22, 1966

This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.

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Episode 11

Forest And Fires

Mon, Aug 29, 1966

This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.

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Episode 12

Water On The Level

Mon, Sep 5, 1966

There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.

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Episode 13

Galapagos: Darwin

Sun, Sep 4, 1966

First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.

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Episode 14

Galapagos: The Islands

Sun, Sep 11, 1966

A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.

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Episode 15

Galapagos: New Beings

Sun, Sep 18, 1966

An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding group of a plant or animal species can give rise to a number of new species

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Episode 16

Galapagos: Ways Of Survival

Sun, Sep 25, 1966

Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.

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Episode 17

Galapagos: Living Laboratory

Sun, Oct 2, 1966

This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.

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