
Episodes (11)
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Ep 1
Einstein, Man & Mathematician
1964-05-05•N/A
An 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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Ep 2
About The Size Of It
1964-05-12•N/A
Scientist 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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Ep 3
Standards For Comparison
1964-05-19•N/A
Universal 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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Ep 4
Excursion Into Hell
1964-05-26•N/A
Centuries ago, people in warmer parts of earth believed a dread disease was contracted from unhealthy air generated in swamps.
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Ep 5
Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
1964-06-02•N/A
This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
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Ep 6
Science In Sports
1964-06-09•N/A
Host 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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Ep 7
Lasers
1964-06-30•N/A
Dr 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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Ep 8
Blood, Sea And Tears
1964-07-07•N/A
Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
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Ep 9
Cartography
1964-07-14•N/A
Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
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Ep 10
The World Of Water
1964-07-21•N/A
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
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Ep 11
Immunology
1964-07-28•N/A
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.