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The Nature of Things Season 4, Episode 3: Standards For Comparison

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Universal standards of measurements are explained in laymen's terms by Dr Patterson Hume and Dr Donald Ivey of University of Toronto. Watch The Nature of Things Season 4, Episode 3 Standards For Comparison in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Nature of Things Season 4, Episode 3 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

11 episodes
1

Einstein, Man & Mathematician

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

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

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

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

This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
6

Science In Sports

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

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

Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
9

Cartography

Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
10

The World Of Water

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
11

Immunology

In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.