The Nature of Things Season 2, Episode 23: Blood in the Balance

Looking Ahead

Photography in Science

To Educate a Scientist

The Situation Is Fluid

Gallstones

The Upper Mantle Project

The Physics of Music

Survival

An appraisal of the probable effects of a large-scale nuclear blast over a North American city. Dr. Tom Stonier of the Rockefeller Institute of Government discusses what can be expected to happen to people and property as a result of such a blast.

Man and the Moon

Hibernating Molecules

Hosts Dr. Donald Ivey and Dr. Patterson Hume talk about conditions at extremely cold temperatures, when matter 'hibernates' and molecular action slows almost to a complete stop, and how this allows physicists to study the basic structure of matter.

Monkey Curiosity

Spermatozoa

Lord Rothschild of the University of Cambridge describes the results of his research in the field of spermatozoa

Animals With Feathers

Dr. William Swinton, head of the Royal Ontario Museum's Life Sciences Department, and John Livingston, executive director of the National Audubon Society, trace the history of birds

Getting the Upper Hand

Thinking about Math

Host Lister Sinclair discusses the thinking that goes into the science of mathematics. Using animated film and studio demonstrations, he explains Mathematical logic

The Plague

Instant Heat

Co-hosted by Drs. Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey, of the University of Toronto. They show how electricity can be produced directly from heat, and vice versa, and discuss the difficulties of transforming thermal energy into electrical energy.

A Science Newsreel

Learning

A Bang-Up Job

Out of Africa

Count on Me

Computers are given the once-over by Drs. Donald Ivey and Patterson Hume.

Episode 24

Examines work of Dr. William Sheldon, who has spent 30 years gathering statistics about the human physique, classifying body types, and correlating this information to medical and psychiatric studies