• 190
    watchers
  • 5.2k
    plays
  • 4.7k
    collected
  • 1963-01-07T01:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 45m
  • 18h 45m (25 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.

25 episodes

Season Premiere

1963-01-07T01:00:00Z

3x01 Looking Ahead

Season Premiere

3x01 Looking Ahead

  • 1963-01-07T01:00:00Z45m

Series consultant Lister Sinclair is host on the season's opener on which he explains how scientists approach their work and how The Nature of Things will present scientific items during its 26-week run.

1963-01-14T01:00:00Z

3x02 Brainwashing

3x02 Brainwashing

  • 1963-01-14T01:00:00Z45m

British psychaitrist Dr. William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of the mind, changing patterns of behaviour, breakdown and religious cults.

1963-01-21T01:00:00Z

3x03 Tubes to Transistors

3x03 Tubes to Transistors

  • 1963-01-21T01:00:00Z45m

Hosts Dr. Patterson Hume and Dr. Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto talk about the electronics age brought about by the vacuum tube and the transistor.

1963-01-28T01:00:00Z

3x04 From Water to Land

3x04 From Water to Land

  • 1963-01-28T01:00:00Z45m

Palaeontologist Dr. Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains the evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures.

1963-02-04T01:00:00Z

3x05 Chemistry of Salt

3x05 Chemistry of Salt

  • 1963-02-04T01:00:00Z45m

Dr. Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about the sources and chemistry of salt and the industrial applications of salt and its components.

1963-02-11T01:00:00Z

3x06 Ear Operation

3x06 Ear Operation

  • 1963-02-11T01:00:00Z45m

Film of an ear operation from the BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr. Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist. This operation is observed through the surgeon's microscope and is carried out with tiny instruments no larger than needles.

1963-02-18T01:00:00Z

3x07 The Way the Ball Bounces

3x07 The Way the Ball Bounces

  • 1963-02-18T01:00:00Z45m

Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate the principles behind the bounce in a rubber ball, and discuss elasticity by comparing rubber and steel.

1963-02-25T01:00:00Z

3x08 Lie Detectors

3x08 Lie Detectors

  • 1963-02-25T01:00:00Z45m

This program examines the autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal. Dr. John Rich, a psychiatrist with Toronto and Queen's Universities is host. In police interrogations and other situations, many methods are used to determine if a subject is lying. One the more efficient methods is the monitoring of the autonomous nervous system. Under certain types of stress, respiration, perspiration, circulation and many other functions are affected.

1963-03-04T01:00:00Z

3x09 Smoking and Lung Cancer

3x09 Smoking and Lung Cancer

  • 1963-03-04T01:00:00Z45m

In cooperation with the National Cancer Institute and the Canadian Cancer Society, today's show explores the results of years of lung-cancer research in Britain and North America. Host Lister Sinclair interviews Dr. A.G. Phillips of the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Norman C. Delarue of Toronto General Hospital.

1963-03-11T01:00:00Z

3x10 Science Museum

3x10 Science Museum

  • 1963-03-11T01:00:00Z45m

A report on the need for a Canadian science museum. Host Lister Sinclair visits the Deutsches Science Museum in Munich and the science section of the British Museum. Includes filmed demonstrations of how science and technology can be made meaningful to the general public.

1963-03-25T01:00:00Z

3x11 Tornadoe

3x11 Tornadoe

  • 1963-03-25T01:00:00Z45m

1963-03-25T01:00:00Z

3x12 The Descent of Man

3x12 The Descent of Man

  • 1963-03-25T01:00:00Z45m

Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. In the Olduvai Gorge, Kenya, Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist and a guest on this program, has unearthed fossil remains that have extended the time scale of human evolution from 500,000 to two million years or more. A deductive story in anthropology and paleontology is told as Dr. Leakey describes his finds and interprets their significance.

1963-04-08T01:00:00Z

3x13 Isaac Newton

3x13 Isaac Newton

  • 1963-04-08T01:00:00Z45m

Lister Sinclair pays tribute to Isaac Newton. The program attempts to capture the spirit of the time through the words of Newton himself and some of his contemporaries.

1963-04-15T01:00:00Z

3x14 New Atoms for Old

3x14 New Atoms for Old

  • 1963-04-15T01:00:00Z45m

Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto explain the value of atoms and the care needed in handling them because of their radio-active properties.

1963-04-22T01:00:00Z

3x15 Car Crashes

3x15 Car Crashes

  • 1963-04-22T01:00:00Z45m

What happens in a car crash - to the 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, explores the physics and psychology of car crashes with Dr. John Rich, a psychiatrist with Toronto and Queen's Universities.

1963-04-29T00:00:00Z

3x16 April 28, 1963

3x16 April 28, 1963

  • 1963-04-29T00:00:00Z45m

1963-05-06T00:00:00Z

3x17 Bird Migration

3x17 Bird Migration

  • 1963-05-06T00:00:00Z45m

In this program the origins and patterns of bird migration, and the latest theories of bird orientation and navigation, are discussed with Dr. William W.H. Gunn of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.

1963-05-13T00:00:00Z

3x18 Fact & Fiction

3x18 Fact & Fiction

  • 1963-05-13T00:00:00Z45m

Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume of the University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis, and compare the scientific experimenter with the scientific theoretician.

1963-05-20T00:00:00Z

3x19 Code of Life

3x19 Code of Life

  • 1963-05-20T00:00:00Z45m

Dr. Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity, particularly recent study and research on the ultimate units of heredity, material called DNA. Dr. Gordon F. Whitmore, Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto, and member of the Physics Division of the Ontario Cancer Insitute is also a guest.

1963-05-27T00:00:00Z

3x20 The Chemistry of Bread

3x20 The Chemistry of Bread

  • 1963-05-27T00:00:00Z45m

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 the baking of one loaf of bread. On today's program Dr. Fred H. Knelman of Montreal looks at bread-baking from the chemist's point of view, using illustrations ranging from stone ovens to production lines.

1963-06-03T00:00:00Z

3x21 The Infra-Red

3x21 The Infra-Red

  • 1963-06-03T00:00:00Z45m

Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses. In the animal kingdom, pit vipers (rattle-snakes and others) locate their prey by means of heat-sensitive organs. Dr. Harry Pullan of the R.C.A. research laboratories, Montreal, describes the properties of the infra-red and demonstrates technological applications.

1963-06-10T00:00:00Z

3x22 Human Overpopulation

3x22 Human Overpopulation

  • 1963-06-10T00:00:00Z45m

In the aftermath of the industrial revolution, with scientific advances offsetting human control, the human species has experienced an increase so explosive that grave doubts are now held about the future food supply. Sir Julian Huxley and Sir Charles Darwin were interviewed in England about this aspect of human biology which most scientists regard as the most critical problem of our time.

1963-06-17T00:00:00Z

3x23 Mars

3x23 Mars

  • 1963-06-17T00:00:00Z45m

Lister Sinclair talks to leading scientists about Mars and plans for observing the planet from close range: Dr. Albert G. Wilson, a former director of the Lowell Observatory, now with the Rand Corporation, and the Chief of the Space Sciences Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr. Robert V. Meghreblian.

1963-06-24T00:00:00Z

3x24 Spiders

3x24 Spiders

  • 1963-06-24T00:00:00Z45m

Man has not ignored the spider - even before interest in them could be called scientific, spiders gave rise to constant legends and myths and were involved in medicine, art, history, and religion. This program is devoted to the subject of spiders - what they are, varieties, feeding, mating habits, milk production and legends behind some of the more notorious species including the Black Widow. Introducing and discussing the subject is freelance writer William Whitehead who has done post-graduate work on the Black Widow spiders.

1963-07-01T00:00:00Z

3x25 Hypnosis

3x25 Hypnosis

  • 1963-07-01T00:00:00Z45m

Dr. Martin T. Orne of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School discusses the subject of hypnosis. Hypnosis has become an important tool for medical science - including childbirth, surgery, dentistry, and psychotherapy. Many types and uses of hypnosis are illustrated by Orne on the program. Last show of the season.

Loading...