Episode 1

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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.

1/6/1963

Brainwashing

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British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind.

1/13/1963

Tubes To Transistors

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

1/20/1963

From Water To Land

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

1/27/1963

Chemistry Of Salt

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

2/3/1963

Ear Operation

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Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist.

2/10/1963

The Way The Ball Bounces

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Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball.

2/17/1963

Lie Detectors

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This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal.

2/24/1963

Smoking And Lung Cancer

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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.

3/3/1963

Science Museum

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To commemorate the Canadian Centennial in 1967 it has been proposed that Canada build a national museum of science. The program includes filmed demonstrations of how science and technology can be made meaningful to the general public.

3/10/1963

Tornadoes

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3/24/1963

The Descent of Man

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Recent fossil discoveries in Africa have shed new light on the ancestry and evolution of man. Guest Dr. L.S.B. Leakey, renowned British anthropologist and paleontologist, unearthed fossil remains in the Olduvai Gorge 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

3/31/1963

Isaac Newton

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

4/7/1963

New Atoms For Old

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4/14/1963

Car Crashes

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What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash?

4/21/1963

Bird Migration

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5/5/1963

Fact & Fiction

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Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis.

5/12/1963

Code of Life

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Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity.

5/19/1963

The Chemistry Of Bread

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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

5/26/1963

The Infra-Red

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Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses.

6/2/1963

Human Overpopulation

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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.

6/9/1963

Mars

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6/16/1963

Spiders

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6/23/1963

Hypnosis

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6/30/1963