Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
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Radio: CBLA-FM CBC Radio One Toronto
Categories: Science & Medicine
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572 - Inducing hibernation with ultrasound, how your diet and your soap attracts mosquitoes, small predators take the wrong refuge and a Ugandan vet walks with mountain gorillasFri, 26 May 2023
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571 - Antarctic dinosaur migration, permafrost and pollution, tracking shark births, Moana’s tools, the Pangenome, and Zoonomia mammalian genome projectsFri, 19 May 2023
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570 - Sharks that hold their breath, 2000 year old condor nest, why deer don’t get Lyme disease, redrawing the motor homunculus and new vaccine technologies for the next pandemicFri, 12 May 2023
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569 - Who wore a prehistoric pendant, AI mind reader, the evolution of blinking, Eastern wolves, seeing air pollution from space, air pollution and cancer and where does moon dust come fromFri, 05 May 2023
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568 - Apples for a warmer world, Rosalind Franklin and DNA, birds’ belly canteen, moustranaut microbiome and Brian Cox on black holesFri, 28 Apr 2023
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567 - Life on the garbage patch, lumpy dark matter formed the visible universe, underwater volcanoes, tadpole’s flexible forms, climate change and Antarctic life, and life with more oxygen.Fri, 21 Apr 2023
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566 - AI scientist develops theories, bear hibernation and immobility risks, Canadian astronaut to the moon, Medieval monks moon science, a new view on the womb and the Earth with no moonFri, 14 Apr 2023
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565 - Artificial auroras, home runs and climate change, baby’s first bacteria, math does crowd control, science and storylistening and old books with hidden stories.Thu, 06 Apr 2023
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564 - Tyrannosaur lips, bald eagles dine on beef, saving the orbital environment, how your fingerprints are built and how humans run on electricityFri, 31 Mar 2023
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563 - Oumuamua probably not an alien spaceship, dizzy great apes, infant delivery glove, prolifically peeing insects, atmospheric rivers and the gravity of climate changeFri, 24 Mar 2023
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562 - Earliest horsepeople, whales use ‘vocal fry’, plankton might migrate poleward, mapping a fruit fly brain and understanding the cuddly, cute and really strange koalaFri, 17 Mar 2023
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561 - Owls' hunt under snow, elephant gardeners, bats' sensory moustaches, songbirds swarm their predators, cockatoos' tool use and seals appreciate a good rhythmFri, 03 Mar 2023
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560 - Giraffe romance, CO2 record interruption, stone-age farmer violence, recycled water purity and fears of a fungal futureFri, 24 Feb 2023
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559 - Super-size penguins, planning a mission to Uranus, an Egyptian embalming workshop, a sandwich inspired water filter and 19 ways of looking at consciousness.Fri, 17 Feb 2023
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558 - Trouble for the ‘love hormone,’ shading Earth with moon dust, making memories with an app, orca sons inhibit mom’s future offspring and more detail on how the first people got to the AmericasFri, 10 Feb 2023
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557 - Dolphins help human fishers, Arctic foxes are tremendous travelers, Neanderthals hunted super-elephants, rubble pile asteroid threat and how particle physics helped us understand what was the matterFri, 03 Feb 2023
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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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