Tập
Horizon: Episode 3
Tóm tắt
A profile of Dr. Albert Copley, the famous hematologist, who is also known as an accomplished artist under the name of Alcopley. For a country striving to raise its productivity, the supply of applied scientists is tremendously important. Professor S. A. Tobias, an engineer, and Lord Todd, ex-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council, discuss the problems of educating them and their importance in society.
Chi tiết
- Phim bộ
- Horizon
- Mùa
- Mùa 3
- Tập
- Tập 3
- Ngày phát sóng
- 1966-01-30
- Thời lượng
- 60 min
Thông tin tập
Episode 3 là tập 3 trong Season 3 của Horizon. Tập này phát sóng ngày 1966-01-30. Thời lượng là 60 min.
Tập trước / tập sau
Tập 2
Horizon explores an American mental hospital, observing schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs.
The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, met in Berkeley, California between Christmas and New Year.
Tập 4
Horizon looks at the research of dolphins being conducted at a United States naval base in Port Magu, California. The research concentrates on the dolphin's abilities of navigation.
The eminent Canadian geologist, Professor Tuzo Wilson, explains his new 'Froth on the Broth' theory of the structure of the earth to David Wilson.
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Tập 1
Horizon follows experiments on the eyes being undertaken at the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the experiments are to discover if our eyes can tell us things we might prefer to keep secret.
In Romania, more than forty thousand people have been given Gerovital H3, in the belief that it will make them younger.
Tập 5
North of Boston, on Route 128, a new industrial landscape based on science is developing. Here men of high intellectual qualifications are developing way-out products, including a helicopter powered by radio waves, a computer which teaches medical diagnosis, and a hair-raising way of testing driving conditions.
Tập 6
A remarkable Swedish film of the gradual development of the human embryo from fertilisation until birth.
One man's impression of what science has done for the modern world: an animated film by Stan Vanderbeek.
Tập 7
Horizon looks into inventors who struggle against exploding technology, the buying power of great industries and taxation problems to make their leaps into the unknown.
An account of a remarkable surgical operation recently performed in China.
Tập 8
Europe's heritage of pictures, statues, and buildings is being destroyed at a frightening rate by atmospheric pollution, but an American scientist has just invented a method of preserving limestone.
In 1908, a vast explosion shook the Tungus district of Siberia: was it due to the biggest meteorite ever to hit the earth, or something odder?
Tập 9
The location of the historic city of Troy was finally pinned down by the researches of Carl Blegen.
By A.D. 2,000, more than half the world's population may be living in cities. The population of some of them may exceed 60 million. This is one of the main preoccupations of the World Institute of Ekistics.
Tập 10
Horizon travels to the spacecraft center in Houston, Texas to study astronauts in space and how they react to being in space and the stresses of launching and re-entry.
Tập 11
Horizon looks at the possibilities of landing a man on the planet Mars.
The Editors of two leading scientific magazines, Dennis Flanagan of the Scientific American, and Nigel Calder of the New Scientist, discuss with Gordon Rattray Taylor the problems of popularizing science and placing it in a social context.
Tập 12
Gordon Taylor meets with Konrad Lorenz, the inventor of ethology, and interviews him about his work on animal instinct and his theories about human instinct.
The world knows all about the uncanny mathematical abilities of the computer. But what happens when these machines learn to draw?
Tập 13
Horizon explores substitute 'phantoms' which are used in radiation studies, manned spaceflight experiments and accident research that gives valuable information on the limits of tolerance on the human body.