The Nature of Things: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Nature of Things Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
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.
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 t
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.
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.
Surgery For Parkinson'S Disease
Jun 2, 1964
This program shows surgical techniques used in a new treatment for Parkinson's Disease.
Science In Sports
Jun 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 impr
Lasers
Jun 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.
Blood, Sea And Tears
Jul 7, 1964
Man still carries around in him an isolated pool of early Palaeozoic ocean that fed his plankton ancestors.
Cartography
Jul 14, 1964
Host and writer Lister Sinclair talks about map projection, and problems of taking a spherical object, earth.
The World Of Water
Jul 21, 1964
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about water.
Immunology
Jul 28, 1964
In this program Donald Crowdis, Director of Nova Scotia Museum of Science, talks about transplants and new study of immunology.