Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
CBC Radio
Radio: CBLA-FM CBC Radio One Toronto
Categories: Science & Medicine
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Humans intuitively understand ape gestural communication; Wolves on an Alaskan island ate all the deer, so now are preying on sea otters; A unique mummy is digitally unwrapped to reveal historical treasures; 52 million years ago Canada’s Arctic was home to pre-primates; Black in Science: have recent years of activism made a difference?; Quirks & Quarks listener question.
Previous episodes
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556 - Humans understand ape gestures, wolves eat sea otters, ‘Golden Boy’ mummy, polar pre-primate, Black in science update and domestication and taming.Fri, 27 Jan 2023
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555 - Fork-headed trilobite, echidnas blow snot bubbles, Perseverance delivery drop-off, farming fish lose their fertilizer and inoculation against misinformation.Fri, 20 Jan 2023
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554 - Exxon’s excellent climate science, dolphins drowned out by ocean noise, supersonic but boomless, climate change and insects, and designing Canada’s lunar rover.Fri, 13 Jan 2023
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553 - A real viral video, is scientific innovation stagnating, rocks from the Oort cloud, constipated scorpions, nature and nurture and why we try to cool fevers.Fri, 06 Jan 2023
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552 - December 31 Question showFri, 30 Dec 2022
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551 - Testing reindeer hearing, a river runs under Antarctica, saving sharks with electricity and cougars and grizzlies return to ManitobaThu, 22 Dec 2022
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550 - Our annual holiday book show, including the health hazards of space and more… A history of COVID-19 and the neuroscience of religion.Fri, 16 Dec 2022
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549 - Dinosaurs go clubbing, the sounds of swearing, detecting 2 million year old DNA, dancing really is all about the bass and is it too late for fusion?Fri, 09 Dec 2022
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548 - Growling bats, seeing an exoplanet’s atmosphere, making lab coats fabulous, milking an ant and finding the symbolic site of the anthropoceneFri, 02 Dec 2022
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547 - Turtles under ice, fungal electronics, airplane radiation, black wolf viral resistance, hailstorm chasers and where the water’s going.Fri, 25 Nov 2022
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546 - Octopus chucking, Mayan ruins mercury contamination, neighborhood black hole, climate makes shrimp snap, discovering T. Rex and how loons see through the murkFri, 18 Nov 2022
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545 - Rocket debris falling to Earth, non-compostable plastic, animal vocalization, illegal fishers use ‘stealth mode’ and Earth’s population hits 8 billionThu, 10 Nov 2022
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544 - Socializing between chimps and gorillas, deer and daylight savings, giant asteroid, aye-aye nose picking, Herzberg Gold medal and comet Shoemaker-LevyFri, 04 Nov 2022
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543 - Celebrating Bob McDonald's 30 years as host of Quirks & QuarksFri, 28 Oct 2022
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542 - Quirks and Quarks Introduces: The Outlaw OceanMon, 24 Oct 2022
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541 - Brain cells play pong, genes for surviving the Black Death, a penguins extra egg, black hole burps and a natural history of spiritsFri, 21 Oct 2022
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540 - Did life on Mars exterminate itself? Stone-age chemistry produces super-glue, African origins for dinosaurs, wolves’ attachment to humans, Nobel for Neanderthals and downloading the mindFri, 14 Oct 2022
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539 - Nobel for quantum entanglement, mystery of the missing bear toes, the dinosaurs’ last tsunami, the genetics of the Anglo-Saxon takeover of England and activists work to “Support our Science’Fri, 07 Oct 2022
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538 - Redirecting an asteroid, Rainforest politics, wildlife and COVID, megalodon was a monster, Indigenous perspectives on Astronomy.Thu, 29 Sep 2022
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537 - The Milky Way tells its story, raccoon criminal masterminds, back to the water, a medieval hate-crime and a city's summer smells.Fri, 23 Sep 2022
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536 - 10,000 steps really are good for you, Astronomers thrilled by JWST, garbage picking cockatoos, on thin ice with Canadian glaciologists and red skies at night?Fri, 16 Sep 2022
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535 - Quirks & Quarks Science in the Field specialFri, 09 Sep 2022
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