The Nature of Things

Season 4

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging.

The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

Where to Watch The Nature of Things • Season 4

11 Episodes

  • Einstein, Man & Mathematician
    E1
    Einstein, Man & MathematicianAn examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.
  • About The Size Of It
    E2
    About The Size Of ItScientist 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.
  • Standards For Comparison
    E3
    Standards For ComparisonUniversal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.
  • Excursion Into Hell
    E4
    Excursion Into HellCenturies ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.
  • Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
    E5
    Surgery For Parkinson'S DiseaseThis program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
  • Science In Sports
    E6
    Science In SportsHost 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.
  • Lasers
    E7
    LasersDr 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.
  • Blood, Sea And Tears
    E8
    Blood, Sea And TearsMan still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
  • Cartography
    E9
    CartographyHost and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
  • The World Of Water
    E10
    The World Of WaterIn this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
  • Immunology
    E11
    ImmunologyIn this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.

 

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