Episode list

The Nature of Things

The Sun

Sun, Jun 19, 1966
An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.
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Air And Water Pollution
This program explores serious problem of pollution, which results when more waste materials are poured into air and water than these elements have capacity to deal with.
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The Physics Of Sailing
The scientific study of physics of sailing, is a fairly new field. This program looks at scientific efforts to understand why sailing ships do what they do.
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Epidemics

Sun, Jul 31, 1966
Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.
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Summer Storms

Sun, Aug 07, 1966
A look at activities of Stormy Weather Group, scientists at Montreal's McGill University and Macdonald College who study pheonomena of summer storms.
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The Value Of Our Parks
This program examines Canada's great national parks and their ecological importance in maintaining habitats vital to various plants and animals.
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Forest And Fires
This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.
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Water On The Level
There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.
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Galapagos: Darwin
First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Galapagos: New Beings
An exploration of scientific phenomenon known as "adaptive radiation", way in which a small founding group of a plant or animal species can give rise to a number of new species
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Galapagos: Ways Of Survival
Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.
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Galapagos: Living Laboratory
This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.
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