An examination of how man adapts to various environments on earth - arctic, tropics, desert - and what consequences are for man and for other living organisms sharing his environment.
An examination of various forms and modes of animal communication. Sound, color, odour, pattern, and movement together or separately can tell animals much about their enemies, source of food and mood of a prospective mate.
This program shows how speed of light is measured and what it means. Although light's speed in a vacuum seems a universal absolute, research now suggests presence of varieties of light move.
Dr R. Wright of British Columbia Research Council discusses his theory of how our senses of taste and smell work, and how they serve biological system.
Dr J. Tuzo Wilson, University of Toronto, talks with host Dr Donald Ivey about nature of earth's core beneath its crust and ways scientists have of finding out about it.
How plants live is classic problems confronting biochemists. Guest Professor RGS. Bidwell, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, demonstrates way.
