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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.
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Episode 1 - Einstein, Man & Mathematician
Release Date: 1964-05-05An examination of personality and achievement of Albert Einstein. Dr Jacob Bronowski of Salk Institute for Advanced Biological Studies at La Jolla, California.
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Episode 2 - About The Size Of It
Release Date: 1964-05-12Scientist 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.
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Episode 3 - Standards For Comparison
Release Date: 1964-05-19Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto.
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Episode 4 - Excursion Into Hell
Release Date: 1964-05-26Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.
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Episode 5 - Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
Release Date: 1964-06-02This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
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Episode 6 - Science In Sports
Release Date: 1964-06-09Host 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.
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Episode 7 - Lasers
Release Date: 1964-06-30Dr 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.
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Episode 8 - Blood, Sea And Tears
Release Date: 1964-07-07Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
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Episode 9 - Cartography
Release Date: 1964-07-14Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
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Episode 10 - The World Of Water
Release Date: 1964-07-21In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
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Episode 11 - Immunology
Release Date: 1964-07-28In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.