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