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Season 1
Season 1 episodes1960-11-06

Season 1

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging. The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

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Episodes

Season 1

Episode 1

Why Is It So?

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Episode 2

The Roar of the Crowd

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Episode 3

The Future of Science

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Episode 4

Schizophrenia

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Episode 5

Engineering

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Episode 6

Man as an Environment

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Episode 7

Science Fiction

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Episode 8

A special Christmas edition

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Episode 9

The Aurora-Borealis

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Episode 10

Man as an Environment – Human Body

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Episode 11

Kept Alive

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Episode 12

Physics and Games – Laws of Probability

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Episode 13

The Face of the Moon

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Episode 14

Hibernation

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Episode 15

Man and His Environment

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Episode 16

Eclipse

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Episode 17

Animal Communication

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Episode 18

The Speed of Light

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Episode 19

Monotony

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Episode 20

The Chemical Senses

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Episode 21

The Mohole: Earth's Crust

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Episode 22

Laws of Conservation

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Episode 23

Photosynthesis

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Episode 24

Physics of Clouds

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Episode 25

The Sources of Science

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