Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
CBC Radio
Radio: CBLA-FM CBC Radio One Toronto
Categories: Science & Medicine
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We end our season with our ever-popular, always fascinating listener question show. In this show we'll answer listener questions like: Why humans don't have a tail - even though we have a tailbone? What would happen to your body if you were to die in space? Why the immune system doesn't permanently get rid of herpes viruses? Why the Earth hasn't cooled through 4 billion years of floating in frigid space? Why we can't remember our early years of life? Why mammal poop is brown while bird poop is white? And much, much more.
Previous episodes
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533 - The Quirks & Quarks listener question showFri, 24 Jun 2022
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532 - Black Death origins, chicken domestication, the life of a mastodon, elephant seal whiskers and ‘The Secret Perfume of Birds’Fri, 17 Jun 2022
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531 - Music from the cosmos, thunderbird extinction, Hubble gets the big picture, invasive species and climate change and the natural history of sound.Fri, 10 Jun 2022
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530 - Baby parrot babbling, a supernova stone, buzzing bats mimic hornets, scallops attracted by disco lights and why mushrooms are ‘world makers’Fri, 03 Jun 2022
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529 - Flying salamanders, headbutting animals and brain damage, undersea cable sensors, secrets of plant survival, why sharks matter and marine mammals and stormsFri, 27 May 2022
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528 - Losing sleep over climate change, growing plants in lunar soil, trilobite sex, the sound of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and medical care and a question of blowing air.Fri, 20 May 2022
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527 - Ancient oyster mounds, seagrass’ sweet secret, saving the Mekong delta, reading minds to produce sound and next-gen COVID-19 vaccinesFri, 13 May 2022
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526 - Endangered tiny porpoise, Mars-quakes, thermal batteries, bloodworms metal fangs, finding alternatives to animal experimentation and why does coal release mercury?Fri, 06 May 2022
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525 - Avian flu outbreak, prehistoric art and firelight, the dingo genome, joggers save calories, Canada’s space tourist and what tsunamis do to marine life.Fri, 29 Apr 2022
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524 - Shallow water on Europa, tourists making iguanas diabetic, dolphin social networking, working out how dinosaurs walked and what to do to save the world’s coral reefs.Fri, 22 Apr 2022
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523 - Quirks and Quarks Introduces: Tai Asks Why - Season 4Wed, 20 Apr 2022
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522 - Legless fossils, smells of the past, research with Russia, sleeping sharks and the new story of the first peoples in the Americas.Thu, 14 Apr 2022
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521 - Arctic plastic pollution, the ‘drunken monkey’ hypothesis, the songs of the manatee, Indigenous led caribou conservation, the Norse in brown-land and tropical tree leaves.Fri, 08 Apr 2022
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520 - New human genome, lion cuddle chemical, Pluto’s ice volcanoes, deconstructing de-extinction, giant crocodiles in BCFri, 01 Apr 2022
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519 - Boa breathing, green fire retardant vampire bat evolution, building urban biodiversity and fungal leatherFri, 25 Mar 2022
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518 - A sabretooth hypercarnivore, pack hunting spiders, urban trees and invasive insects, testing a baleen whale’s hearing, tire rubber pollution, clothes that listen to you and lithium mining in Ontario.Fri, 18 Mar 2022
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517 - Mar 12: Russia and space cooperation, the UN plastic treaty, ancient 10-legged octopus, medical alarm sounds and the price of fear for prey animals.Fri, 11 Mar 2022
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516 - Climate change and health, the biggest bacteria, rare earth metal recycling, tracking a giant Antarctic iceberg and are we living in a simulation?Fri, 04 Mar 2022
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515 - Feb 26 - A Quirks & Quarks special: Feeding The Future - How we can feed 10 billion people without killing the planetFri, 25 Feb 2022
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514 - Roman porta-potty, rogue waves, why dogs can be tiny and titanic, half billion year old fossil nerves, a history of timekeeping and sleep and light.Fri, 18 Feb 2022
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513 - The doomsday glacier, why we love, neanderthals and humans cave-swapping and more, mosquitos see red and astronomers vs. satellite constellationsFri, 11 Feb 2022
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512 - Long COVID and the brain, gravitational waves from supermassive black holes, swapping spit, climate change and fish wars and hibernators recycle nutrientsFri, 04 Feb 2022
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511 - 130,000 new viruses discovered, chimpanzee social learning, what’s moving the tectonic plates, deer return to wildfire landscape and why aliens might look like us.Fri, 28 Jan 2022
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510 - Tongan Volcano, why whales don’t choke on their food, darkness doomed the dinosaurs, plastic into marine fuel, electrically stimulating cartilage growth and scientific colonialism.Fri, 21 Jan 2022
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509 - Seed dispersal and climate change, the Local Bubble, pint-sized war-horses, seeing memories form in an animal and a vaccine mixing study that didn’t quite happen.Fri, 14 Jan 2022
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508 - Protecting cattle from wolves without killing, Shark antibodies to fight coronaviruses, wildlife DNA in the air, Tiny fish do the wave and why smoke is different from clouds.Fri, 07 Jan 2022
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507 - Our annual holiday listener question show; Where does the rubber from tires go? Can a laser cut through a mirror? Why don’t some animals vomit?Fri, 31 Dec 2021
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