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Quirks and Quarks

CBC Radio"s Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

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How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…

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2023/11/24

These bats copulate for hours with enormous penises but without penetration; Jumping spiders think it matters if you’re black and white; Forewarned and three-armed; Red snow in the morning, climate scientists take warning; We need to save biodiversity to preserve billions of years of natural experiments.

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Alien blobs in the Earth’s mantle, and much more

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2023/11/17

Hummingbirds sidle sideways to slip through tiny gaps; Do you speak fish? A new online dictionary of fish sounds debuts; When girls are in the audience, all-boy choirs change their tune; Ancient whales - tiny and titanic - from 40 million years ago; Alien blobs lurk inside our planet, and could be feeding supervolcanoes; Quirks & Quarks Listener Question.

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Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, Right...

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2023/11/10

Edible fats and oils could be synthesized from fossil fuels; Sea stars lost their tails to get a head; Southern Right whale skin samples helps tell the story of their history and future; Music soothes physical as well as emotional pain; Does biology trump free will? A behavioural scientist argues we have no choice; Quirks listener question — Fires and oxygen.

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AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan,...

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2023/11/03

Canadian AI researcher wins Herzberg medal, cautions world about his work; Pro football player lifespan depends on the position they play; Killer whale blubber is telling a sad story about pollution; Smart glasses help blind people see with sound; The most powerful solar storm ever struck before it could do much damage.

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Antarctic ice will melt for a century, the necrobiome...

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2023/10/27

We’ll see a century of major melting of Antarctic ice, no matter what we do; For Halloween — How your body’s microbiome will help recycle you after you die; Climbing down from trees could be why we can throw a baseball; Brain waves from false memories look different from real ones; Finding the biological signature of long COVID.

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NASA’s metal mission, hungry hippos chew badly, music...

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2023/10/23

A metal mission — NASA launches a spacecraft to Psyche; Hungry Hippos don't chew very well; Music makes your heart go pitter-pat just like other people's hearts; Cicadas boom and trees get busted; Understanding the risks and rewards of deep sea mining.

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Quantum dot Nobel, super-hot supercontinent, lunar...

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2023/10/13

A Nobel Prize for colourful quantum dots; A future supercontinent will make Earth uninhabitable; Scientists use lasers to melt lunar dust into bricks to pave a lunar highway; How Neanderthals took down a mighty cave lion; The evolution of women.

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Nobel for vaccine key, human voices scare wildlife,...

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2023/10/06

Nobel prize winners set the table for mRNA COVID vaccines; Human conversation scares African wildlife more than lions; James Webb Telescope is opening our eyes to young black holes; Evidence of fires in the La Brea tar pits suggests an explanation for extinction; Finding concrete solutions to one of the world’s hardest environmental problems.

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Trilobite’s last meal, Antimatter falls down, C....

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2023/09/29

What a trilobite ate and what ate it; Antimatter falls down, much to the relief of physicists; Hospitals have controlled C. difficile outbreaks — but people are bringing their own; Some early cows – and cowboys – in the Americas came from Africa; Ugly babies: A new book looks at cute-challenged but fascinating baby animals.

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Quirks & Quarks presents White Coat Black Art

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2023/09/26

A special bonus episode of CBC Radio's program looking at the world of medicine. Pediatrician and vaccine scientist Dr. Peter Hotez warns the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a dangerous anti-science force. In The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning, Hotez says failing to act now will threaten governments’ ability to fight serious infectious diseases.

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Studying the holes in an asteroid, Great Slave lake...

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2023/09/22

Vatican scientist will be among the first to study space rocks delivered from the heavens; The base of the food chain in Great Slave Lake has been altered as climate changed; The stone age was probably also the wood age; Investigating what makes a good bat-condo; Climate change is making marine heat waves more frequent and intense – and that's changing life in the ocean; Listener question:What impact do solar flares have on the planets closer to the Sun than Earth?

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Birth of a baby sperm whale, a robot that runs on...

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2023/09/15

Whale scientist see the birth of baby sperm whale for the first time; A robot that runs on gas is an explosive new innovation; Reduced pollution from ships led to a warmer climate; An octopus's garden off Costa Rica; Only we can prevent forest fires? It depends on location.

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Our Summer in the Field special: We catch up with...

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2023/09/08

Reintroducing a rare butterfly to a restored ecosystem; Studying Vancouver’s bats in front of a curious audience; Investigating whether Arctic methane seeps could tell us about life on Mars; Revealing the hidden worlds in Pacific ocean depths; Plan a, forget it. Plan b, oh well. Plan c study Saskatchewan ticks; Dodging wild boars while doing archeology in southern Italy; Sidewalk gardens keep harmful chemicals out of streams.

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