Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor. Air Date : 20th-Jan-1963

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. Air Date : 6th-Jan-1963  Read More

British psychaitrist Dr William Sargeant discusses and illustrates various brainwashing techniques such as weakening of mind. Air Date : 13th-Jan-1963  Read More

Hosts Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto talk about electronics age brought about by vacuum tube and transistor. Air Date : 20th-Jan-1963  Read More

Palaeontologist Dr Alfred S. Romer of Harvard University explains evolution of lungs, legs, and a new kind of egg in aquatic creatures. Air Date : 27th-Jan-1963  Read More

Dr Fred H. Knelman of Montreal, talks about sources and chemistry of salt and industrial applications of salt and its components. Air Date : 3rd-Feb-1963  Read More

Film of an ear operation from BBC series YOUR LIFE IN THEIR HANDS, with commentary by Dr Hugh Barber, Toronto ear specialist. Air Date : 10th-Feb-1963  Read More

Professors Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume demonstrate principles behind bounce in a rubber ball. Air Date : 17th-Feb-1963  Read More

This program examines autonomic nervous system, how it works, and what it can reveal. Air Date : 24th-Feb-1963  Read More

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. Air Date : 3rd-Mar-1963  Read More

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. Air Date : 10th-Mar-1963  Read More

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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 Air Date : 31st-Mar-1963  Read More

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 Air Date : 7th-Apr-1963  Read More

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What happens in a car crash - to car and to its occupants? What causes a crash? Air Date : 21st-Apr-1963  Read More

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Hosts Dr Donald Ivey and Dr Patterson Hume of University of Toronto, contrast observation to synthesis. Air Date : 12th-May-1963  Read More

Dr Louis Siminovitch, Professor of Medical Biophysics at University of Toronto, discusses what is currently known about heredity. Air Date : 19th-May-1963  Read More

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 Air Date : 26th-May-1963  Read More

Detection of heatwaves by Special infra-red receptors has many industrial, military and other uses. Air Date : 2nd-Jun-1963  Read More

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. Air Date : 9th-Jun-1963  Read More

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