Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio
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Categories: Science & Medicine
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534 - Quirks & 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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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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