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CBC Radio: Quirks and Quarks Complete Show Podcast by Bob McDonald

CBC Radio: Quirks and Quarks Complete Show Podcast

by Bob McDonald

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One of the best science podcasts available is Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio. Host Bob McDonald speaks with scientists around the globe about the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. They feature two podcast feeds: one of the complete hour-long show and one that breaks the show up into its three or four topical segments. Subscribe to this podcast from CBC Radio.


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CBC Radio's Science Program. Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. Covering the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom...and everything in between.


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Apps For Apes, plus The Oldest Water on Earth, Oldest Evidence of Man's Best Friend, Evidence of The Earliest Human Butchers, and more - 2013/05/18

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Fri, May 17, 2013


Oldest Water May Be Clue To Life on Mars, Oldest Evidence of Human Hunting, Humans And Dogs Evolved Together, Apps For Apes, Beetles Make Antifreeze.

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Dinosaurs Big and Little, plus A 180 Lense Camera Based on Insect Eye, Hairy Bat Tongues, Acid Secreting Bone Worms, and more - 2013/05/11

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Fri, May 10, 2013


Bone Head Dinosaur Diversity, Using Elephants To Study Dinosaur Metabolism, Hairy Bat Tongues Lap Liquid, Compound Eye Camera, Bone Worms Devour Whale Skeletons, Seeing Faster Than The Eye Can Follow.

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My Beloved Brontosaurus, plus Cannibals In The Womb, Slap-Happy Humpbacks, and more - 2013/05/04

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Fri, May 03, 2013


Shark Embryos Cannibalize Their Siblings, Does Antimatter Have Anti-Gravity?, Humpbacks Take Fishing Tips From Friends, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Quirks Question Period - The Moon's Moon.

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Paleofantasy, plus Why Rats Can't Retch, Voles Can't Vomit or Beavers Can't Barf, and more - 2013/04/27

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Fri, Apr 26, 2013


Paleofantasy, Why Vermin Can't Vomit, Squirrel Stress Makes Big Babies, Bacterial Biofuels Made Better, Big Stars Make Long Gamma-ray Bursts.

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Time Reborn, plus Worm Inspires Better Skin Graft, Penis-like Organ Cools Whale, Lake Erie Algae, and more - 2013/04/20

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Fri, Apr 19, 2013


Parasitic Worms Inspire Better Skin Graft, Penis-like Organ Helps Bowheads Keep Cool, Beothuk Beliefs Inspired by Birds, Lake Erie Algae Bloom, Time Reborn.

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Digging For Dinosaur Discoveries, plus Monarchs Use a Compass But Not a Map, Pacific Islands Searched for Missing Species, and more - 2013/04/13

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Fri, Apr 12, 2013


Dinosaurs Great At Growing, Dinosaurs Do The Duck Paddle, Monarch Butterflies Navigate Without A Map, Shark Tooth Weapons Reveal Lost Species, Humans Caused Bird Extinctions in Pacific Islands, Electric Engines For Aircraft.

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Controlling Robots With Your Mind, plus the Firestorm that Killed The Dinosaurs, Why Big Dogs Die Young, and more - 2013/04/06

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Fri, Apr 05, 2013


Big Dogs Die Young, The Firestorm That Killed The Dinosaurs, Giraffes Changed by Distant Feet, Rocky Mountains Imported From Overseas, Brain Machine Interfaces.

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Can Science Explain Religion?, plus The Vatican Astronomer, Fairy Circles mystery Explained, and more - 2013/03/30

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Thu, Mar 28, 2013


West Coast History of Tobacco, Termites Make Fairy Circles in the Sand, The Science of Religion, Brother Guy Consolmagno Jesuit and Astronomer.

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Planck Unveils The Oldest Light, plus Birds Evolve to Dodge Traffic, Dracula Ants Drink Their Young, A Life of Adventure and Research on the Serengeti, and more - 2013/03/23

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Fri, Mar 22, 2013


Planck Takes The Universe's Baby Picture, Driving Cliff Swallow's Evolution, Head Impacts and Brain Decay, The Dracula Ant Drinks Its Young, Adventure Meets Research on the Serengeti.

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The Universe's Baby Picture, plus How Sauropods Held Their Heads Up, Penguins Are Cooler Than You Thought, The Rhino Beetle is a Freaky Flier, and more - 2013-03-16

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Fri, Mar 15, 2013


Cell Phone Conversations Annoying and Distracting, Heat Triggers Dwarf Mistletoe, New Telescope Reveals Early Star Formation, Rhino Beetle is a Freaky Flier, Penguins Can Get Colder Than Cold, How Sauropod Dinosaurs Hold Their Heads.

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The Arctic Camel, plus Bees get a Caffeine Buzz, Prehistoric Spiral-toothed Shark, A Massive Martian Flood, and more - 2013/03/09

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Fri, Mar 08, 2013


Camels in the high Arctic, Bees get a Buzz from Caffeine, Prehistoric Spiral-toothed Shark, A Martian Flood of Biblical Proportions, Rats Sniff-out Social Status, The Ancient Roman Diet.

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Canada's Small Satellite With a Big Punch, plus Monkeys Make Nut-crackers, Dolphins Call Each Other by Name, Corn Fuels Ancient Civilzation, Melting Permafrost, and more - 2013/03/02

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Fri, Mar 01, 2013


Tiny Canadian Satellites Study Brightest Stars, Ancient Peruvian Civilization Fueled by Corn, Skillful Monkeys Crack Nuts, Dolphins Imitate Calls, Permafrost Melting in the Sunlight, How Seals Sleep With Half a Brain.

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Raising The Lid on Eyesight, plus Fruit Flies and Alcohol, Magnetic Maps for Salmon, and Red Dwarfs Host Habitable Plants, and more - 2013/02/23

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Fri, Feb 22, 2013


Human Echolocation: Blind Like A Bat, Lifting The Lid On Lazy Eye, Red Dwarf Stars Host Hospitable Planets, Mother Flies Dose Offspring With Alcohol, Arctic Ice Turns Green With Algae, Salmon Follow Magnetic Map.

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Oceans of Plastic, plus Music Boosts the Brain, Moles Smell in Stereo, Invasive Ants Wage Battle, and more - 2013/02/16

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Fri, Feb 15, 2013


Oceans of Plastic, Early Music Lessons Boost The Brain, Moles Smell in Stereo, Battle of The Invasive Ants, Carbon Nanotubes Make Hybrid Heart Tissue.

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Your Inner Universe, plus Our Earliest Mammal Ancestor, Jays Give Mates Gifts, Carribean Coral Crisis, and more - 2013/02/09

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Fri, Feb 08, 2013


Oldest Placental Mammal, Jays Anticipate Mates' Desires, Encroaching Grasslands and Bipedalism, Caribbean Coral Crisis, The Universe Within.

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Neither Nature Nor Nurture, plus Toddlers Tell Tales, Dinosaur Teeth, Canadian Telescope Explores Dark Energy and more - 2013/02/02

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Fri, Feb 01, 2013


Canadian Telescope Explores Dark Energy, Toddlers Tell Lies, Teeth Reveal Dinosaur Species, Tapeworm Eggs in Fossilized Shark Poop, Identically Different: The Science of Epigenetics.

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DNA For Storage Banks, plus Flying Frogs and Freezing Frogs, White Coyotes, and more - 2013/01/26

podcasting@cbc.ca
Fri, Jan 25, 2013


DNA For Data Banks, Webbed Hands and Feet Help Frog Fly, White Coyotes Unique to Newfoundland, Frozen Frogs Pay a Price For Ice, Fish Hide From The Invasive Nile Perch, Fossils Could Preserve Oldest Land Life.

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Fists Of Fury, plus Hobbit Wrist Theory, Gut Bacteria, Barnacles Capture Sperm, Dwarf Galaxy Puzzle and more - 2013/01/19

podcasting@cbc.ca
Fri, Jan 18, 2013


Fists Of Fury, Hobbit Wrists Support Species Theory, Gut Bacteria and Autoimmune Disease, Barnacles Sow Their Seed in the Sea, Dwarf Galaxy Orbital Puzzle, Counting the Bugs in a Rainforest.

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The Crude Effects of Alberta's Oil Sands, plus A Shooting Star, A Climbing Fish. The Ancient Equator - 2013/01/12

podcasting@cbc.ca
Fri, Jan 11, 2013


Athabasca Oil Sands Pollute Nearby Lakes, Finding A Shooting Star, A Fish Climbs Using Its Mouth, Reconstructing The Olduvai Environment, Manitoba on The Ancient Equator, Question of the Week: Measuring Time.

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YOU Predict The Future, including Self-Driving Cars, 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Fire in the Boreal Forest - 2013/01/05

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Fri, Jan 04, 2013


Listeners predict the future for our planet, our technology and our lives,and Canadian scientists weigh-in on the possibilities of those predictions.

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Quirks & Quarks Holiday Question Show - 2012/12/29

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Fri, Dec 28, 2012


Ten scientists answer one question in their area of expertise in this annual Question show.

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Quirks & Quarks Holiday Book Show - 2012/12/22

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Sun, Dec 23, 2012


The Particle at the End of the Universe explains the hunt for the elusive Higgs Boson, The Forever Fix chronicles the history of gene therapy, and Hubble's Universe is a fantastic visual voyage through images taken by the world's greatest telescope.

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Extra Old Cheese, plus Porcupine Quills, Birds Butt Out, Planet Without Apes - 2012/12/15

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Fri, Dec 14, 2012


Earliest Evidence of Cheese Making, Penetrating Porcupine Quills, Electricity From The Ear, Birds Use Cigarette Butts to Repel Parasites, Planet Without Apes.

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Oldest Dinosaur, plus Blue Whales, Steam Without Boiling, Jumping on Water - 2012/12/08

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Fri, Dec 07, 2012


Nyasasaurus The Oldest Dinosaur, Blue Whales Perform Underwater Acrobatics, Nanotech Steam Generator, Insect Jumps on Water, Katydid's Human-like Ears, Forsaking Sex and Stealing DNA.

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Quirks & Quarks 2012-12-01

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Fri, Nov 30, 2012


Dead Trees, Warm Forests, Hermit Crab's Shell Game, Peruvian Peak Water, The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy, Near Earth Objects.

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Quirks & Quarks 2012-11-24

podcasting@cbc.ca
Fri, Nov 23, 2012


In A Flap About Flight, Fish Swims With The Current, Wax-work Micro-muscles, Using DNA to Save The World, Question of the Week: Herbivores.

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