Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
CBC Radio
Categories: Science & Medicine
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Researchers spy on turtles to see how they survive winter under the ice; Myco-computing – scientists substitute fungus for circuit boards in electronics; Airplane passengers are getting extra doses of radiation — and now we know its source; Basic black looks good on wolves exposed to disease; A record-setting hailstorm in Alberta was a bonanza for scientific hail chasers; Listener question: With glaciers and ice caps melting, where’s the water going?
Previous episodes
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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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534 - Quirks and Quarks is on hiatus - new programs in SeptemberWed, 29 Jun 2022
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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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