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The Nature of Things

Season 20 1979 - 1980

  • 1979-10-25T00:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 12h 45m (17 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary
Hosted by the world-renowned geneticist and environmentalist, David Suzuki, every week presents stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world.

17 episodes

Season Premiere

1979-10-25T00:00:00Z

20x01 Flying Circus of Physics

Season Premiere

20x01 Flying Circus of Physics

  • 1979-10-25T00:00:00Z45m

Dr. David Suzuki visits an unusual professor who conducts a Flying Circus Of Physics, examines soft contact lenses made for extended periods of use and reports on the latest immunological efforts to treat severely afflicted children. - Premiere with David Suzuki as Host.

Dr. David Suzuki reports on the use of hypnosis as a medical application and the use of ultra-sound waves for X-rays, and presents the film "Sacred Cows," dealing with the importance of domestic cattle to the Indian economy.

Scientists Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. David Bevie are interviewed and the status of parenthood and a unique connection between puppets and surgery are examined.

"Madagascar: Island of the Moon" examines some of the rare animal species found on the world's fourth-largest island (now known as the Malagasy Republic). Most of the footage is devoted to the island's lemurs, early primates that have flourished on Madagascar and evolved into several species. Among the animals shown are the ring-tailed lemur, the mouse lemur.

1979-11-22T01:00:00Z

20x05 Contact

20x05 Contact

  • 1979-11-22T01:00:00Z45m

A one-hour film about a new method of treatment for autistic children, hitherto thought to be hopeless cases. Filmed in Toronto, it shows how techniques developed in the U.S. by Barry and Suzi Kaufman, themselves parents of an autistic Child, have been adopted for use in an experimental program headed by Fern Levitt, a 24-year-old psychology graduate of York University.

1979-11-29T01:00:00Z

20x06 Deep Diving Memory

20x06 Deep Diving Memory

  • 1979-11-29T01:00:00Z45m

The host David Suzuki show us the changes
physiological caused by diving and examines the mystery memory.

1979-12-06T01:00:00Z

20x07 Arctic Oil

20x07 Arctic Oil

  • 1979-12-06T01:00:00Z45m

This report on oil exploration in the Canadian Arctic examines the technological and environmental problems associated with drilling in the Far North. It also focuses on how and where decisions about northern development are made. Among those interviewed are Jake Epp, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Environment Minister John Fraser; and Mr. Justice Thomas Berger, author of a 1977 report on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline.

1979-12-13T01:00:00Z

20x08 Clinical Trials

20x08 Clinical Trials

  • 1979-12-13T01:00:00Z45m

Topics include Clinical Trials; Folk Medicine and Magnetic Bacteria.

1979-12-20T01:00:00Z

20x09 Left Brain, Right Brain

20x09 Left Brain, Right Brain

  • 1979-12-20T01:00:00Z45m

The brain's two halves or hemispheres differ both in anatomical structure and in the bodily functions they control. "Left Brain, Right Brain" is a report on recent studies into the functional differences between the two halves. Studies include administering verbal and motor tests to a subject after one hemisphere has been anesthetized, tracing blood-flow activity in the two halves as different tasks are performed and testing a patient who has had the nerve connections between the two halves severed.

1980-01-03T01:00:00Z

20x11 Memories From Eden

20x11 Memories From Eden

  • 1980-01-03T01:00:00Z45m

A one-hour film on modern zoos. Traditionally, zoos have been little more than prisons for their occupants; today, special environments are being created which provide much better for the welfare of animals and increase the enjoyment of visitors.

1980-01-10T01:00:00Z

20x12 Crocodile City

20x12 Crocodile City

  • 1980-01-10T01:00:00Z45m

Tonight's topics include Crocodile City; High Altitude Physiology; and Magnetic Bacteria.

1980-01-24T01:00:00Z

20x13 The Lacandons

20x13 The Lacandons

  • 1980-01-24T01:00:00Z45m

Title of tonight's program is "The Lacandons" - a North American Indian program.

A documentary about Paul Jacobs, an American freelance investigative journalist who sets out to prove the relationship between low-level nuclear radiation or fallout and the increased incidences of cancer. Between 1957 and 1978, Jacobs interviewed persons who had been exposed to fall-out from bomb tests in Nevada.

The story of naturalist Peterson, his work and his love of nature, narrated by John Livingston, photography by Rudolf Kovanic.

Among the segments is "Galileo," a film that chronicles the life of the Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist through visits to the cities where he lived and worked, and demonstrations of his experiments. Another segment focuses on how the human body adapts to life high above sea level, and includes a report on some of the equipment that enables mountain climbers and airplane pilots to survive at high altitudes. Also; how weather in one part of the world can affect regions thousands of miles away.

The Chiricahuas, the making of violins, and seal psychology are among the topics covered.

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