Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
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Categories: Science & Medicine
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For a century dolphins and fishers have been cooperating, and the benefits are now clear Arctic foxes are tremendous travellers Elephant graveyard shows Neanderthals were more cooperative than we thought Asteroid sample shows just what we need to deflect a surprise killer impactor A new book looks at the experiments that gave us the modern picture of matter
Previous episodes
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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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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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