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Quirks and Quarks

Quirks and Quarks

117 Episodes • By CBC • www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks
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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Apr 12 2024 54m
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The dark side of LED lighting and more,,,
Seeing a black hole’s magnetic personalityScientists... more
Apr 5 2024 54m
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An Australian Atlantis and other lost landscapes, and more...
Archaeologists identify a medieval war-horse graveya... more
Mar 28 2024 54m
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The future of freshwater — will we have a drop to drink, and more.
How animals dealt with the ‘Anthropause’ during COVI... more
Mar 22 2024 54m
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How animals eating, excreting and expiring is like the world's bloodstream, and more
Why a detective is studying blood spatters in zero-g... more
Mar 15 2024 54m
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How disabled primates thrive in the wild and more…
Nature’s nurturing side — disabled primates thrive i... more
Mar 8 2024 54m
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The boreal forest is on the move, and we need to understand how,
Speedy ocean predators change their skin colour to s... more
Mar 1 2024 54m
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Icelanders reap the costs and benefits of living on a volcanic island and more…
We now know what happened to a supernova discovered ... more
Feb 23 2024 54m
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A post valentine’s look at humpback mating songs and a marsupial that’s sleepless for sex
Atlantic ocean circulation edging closer to potentia... more
Feb 16 2024 54m
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Scientists explore which came first, the chicken or the egg, and more…
Blue whales are genetically healthy but are breeding... more
Feb 9 2024 54m
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An ancient tree’s crowning glory and more…
Shark declines: finning regulations might have bitte... more
Feb 2 2024 54m
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The aftermath of a record-smashing volcano: Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai two years later, and more...
Oil sands produce more air pollution than industry’s... more
Jan 26 2024 54m
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Can diet and exercise be replaced by pills and more…
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Jan 19 2024 54m
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Could buried hydrogen help save the world, and more…
*** How history’s largest ape met its end *** For ne... more
Jan 12 2024 54m
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A Cave of bones could rewrite the history of human evolution, and more…
Hurricanes carry microplastic pollution in the ocean... more
Jan 5 2024 54m
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Our annual holiday question show
Questions ranging from moths to mustard, moonlight t... more
Dec 29 2023 54m
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Seasonal science with reindeer, special stars and miracle babies…
Reindeer and arctic seals have complex nasal passage... more
Dec 22 2023 54m
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The Quirks & Quarks holiday book show!
How studying long-lived animals might give us the ke... more
Dec 15 2023 54m
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A young carnivorous dinosaur’s last meal and more
A young carnivorous dinosaur’s last meal; A robot st... more
Dec 8 2023 54m
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Cat facts — the latest science on our feline companions
Cat faces are more expressive than you think; Cats c... more
Dec 1 2023 54m
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How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…
These bats copulate for hours with enormous penises ... more
Nov 24 2023 54m
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Alien blobs in the Earth’s mantle, and much more
Hummingbirds sidle sideways to slip through tiny gap... more
Nov 17 2023 54m
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Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, Right whale diet, music soothes pain and does biology suggest we lack fr...
Edible fats and oils could be synthesized from fossi... more
Nov 10 2023 54m
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AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan, smart glasses see with sound, most powerful solar storm and kil...
Canadian AI researcher wins Herzberg medal, cautions... more
Nov 3 2023 54m
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Antarctic ice will melt for a century, the necrobiome recycles your corpse,how apes hang around, brain waves charac...
We’ll see a century of major melting of Antarctic ic... more
Oct 27 2023 54m
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