
Episodes (17)
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Ep 1
The Sun
1966-06-20•N/A
An examination of sun from various points of view. Includes discussion with illustrative film footage of: archeological remains.
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Ep 2
Natural History Of The Niagara Gorge
1966-06-27•N/A
The famous Niagara Falls had their origins at Queenston 12,000 years ago. Since then.
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Ep 3
Air And Water Pollution
1966-07-04•N/A
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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Ep 4
The Battle Against Biting Insects
1966-07-11•N/A
An examination of some of most sophisticated methods of pest control such as: unbalancing insects' nutrition.
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Ep 5
Air Conditioning - Natural And Man-Made
1966-07-18•N/A
This program considers many aspects of controlling human environment to regulate pressure, humidity, and temperature.
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Ep 6
The Physics Of Sailing
1966-07-25•N/A
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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Ep 7
Epidemics
1966-08-01•N/A
Not so many years ago, summer's warmth brought chilling fear of polio and typhus epidemics.
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Ep 8
Summer Storms
1966-08-08•N/A
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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Ep 9
Fishing And The Splake
1966-08-15•N/A
Science is developing new and better fish, splake for instance, a product of cross-breeding of lake.
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Ep 10
The Value Of Our Parks
1966-08-22•N/A
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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Ep 11
Forest And Fires
1966-08-29•N/A
This program deals with forest succession. Scientists have recently learned a great deal about way.
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Ep 12
Water On The Level
1966-09-05•N/A
There has been great alarm recently over declining level of water in bodies of water as enormous as Great Lakes.
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Ep 13
Galapagos: Darwin
1966-09-04•N/A
First episode of a five-part series on Galapagos islands. This looks at life and work of Charles Darwin.
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Ep 14
Galapagos: The Islands
1966-09-11•N/A
A survey of animal and plant life of Galapagos archipelago including: a look at geological origins of islands.
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Ep 15
Galapagos: New Beings
1966-09-18•N/A
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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Ep 16
Galapagos: Ways Of Survival
1966-09-25•N/A
Apart from their external appearance, animals go through behavioural and physiological changes to adapt themselves to different environments: for example.
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Ep 17
Galapagos: Living Laboratory
1966-10-02•N/A
This final program in series looks at some of endangered species in Galapagos islands, and at impact of human settlement on native creatures.