CBC Radio: Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show Podcast
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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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My favourite podcast!, April 22, 2006
Reviewer: Joanna
This is a very interesting, well-produced podcast that also airs on Terrestrial radio. Bob Macdonald is a friendly and personable host and the weekly show covers a wide range of science topics of interest to the average person. I love how they get in more than one expert on most topics, in order to present a well-rounded view. You can also download the whole show as one file, or just individual segements. Archives on the website go back several years! This is a show well worth a listen. I am addicted!
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http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/
qq-2009-11-21_01-Countdown to Copenhagen
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
In just 2 weeks time, representatives from 193 countries will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the UN Conference on Climate Change.
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qq-2009-11-21_02-A Crocodile World
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
Dr. Hans Larsson, a paleontologist at McGill University, has just identified five species of crocodilians that lived about 100 million years ago.
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qq-2009-11-21_03-Accent on Crying
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
The cry patterns of 30 French new born babies were compared to those of 30 German babies. The cries indicate country of origin.
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qq-2009-11-21_04-Vampire Spiders
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
Dr. Simon Pollard, at the University of Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, has found a spider in East Africa that lusts after a particular smell - blood!
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qq-2009-11-21_05-Name Your Poison
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
Dr. Hopi Hoekstra, a professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard has discoverd that the Northern Short-tailed shrew, a mammal, and the Mexican Beaded Lizard, a reptile - have essentially evolved the same poison.
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qq-2009-11-14_01-CSI: Mesopotamia
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
Forensic techniques applied to two skulls from tombs in Mesopotamia, suggests death from blunt-forve trauma, not willing human sacrifice as previously thought.
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qq-2009-11-14_02-Dinos Run Hot Not Cold
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
The question of whether dinosaurs were warm blooded (like birds and mammals) or cold blooded (like modern reptiles) has been hotly debated in the paleontology community.
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qq-2009-11-14_03-Nazca Demise
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
Evidence shows that the Nazca people of Peru may have sown the seeds of their own destruction
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qq-2009-11-14_04-Singing Wings
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
The unique song of the Club-winged Manakin, a small South American bird is made by the remarkably fast flapping of wings.
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qq-2009-11-14_05-Natural Nukes
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
The first bloom of photosynthetic life, more than 2 billion years ago, would have created a chemical environment that would have led to the concentration of uranium and the formation of many thousands of natural nuclear reactors that would have lasted hundreds of thousands of years.
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qq-2009-11-14_06-Fact or Fiction
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
"A person can pay off a sleep debt by sleeping in late on weekends." Dr. John Kimoff, Director of the Sleep Lab at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal says it is mostly science fiction.
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qq-2009-11-07_01-Kilimanjaro
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
According to research done by Dr. Lonnie Thompson at the Ohio State University, the famous ice peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro will disappear completely in the next two decades.
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qq-2009-11-07_02-Albatross with a Plastic Wafer
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Dr. Lindsay Young, a Canadian wildlife biologist, has been studying just how much plastic albatrosses end up ingesting on their oceanic foraging journeys.
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qq-2009-11-07_03-Redback Spiders - Cheatin' and Eatin'
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Jeff Stoltz, a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, has been studying redback spider mating rituals.
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qq-2009-11-07_04-New-tron Star
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
A supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A has been hiding a mystery - just what was left after the star went boom.
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qq-2009-11-07_05-A Gift From Space
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Julie Payette spent more than 2 weeks on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour, and the International Space Station. She brought us back a special present: a Quirks & Quarks postcard, featuring Bob McDonald, that she signed in space.
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qq-2009-11-07_06-Fact or Fiction
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? Dr. Kam Shojania says it's science fiction.
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qq-2009-10-31_01-Cancer As a Chronic Disease
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
Researchers have made remarkable progress in allowing people to live with cancer for longer.
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qq-2009-10-31_02-Unicorn Fly
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
Dr. George Poinar, at Oregon State University, has found a tiny unicorn-like fly, perfectly preserved in a piece of prehistoric Burmese amber.
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qq-2009-10-31_03-Two-alarm Squirrels
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
But Dr. Shannon Digweed, from Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, believes that red squirrels use the same two sounds to let all intruders know that their presence has been detected.
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qq-2009-10-31_04-Blast From The Past
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
On April 23rd of this year, NASA's Swift Satellite telescope identified the oldest known gamma ray burst in the universe.
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qq-2009-10-24_01-Laptop of the Greeks
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered a hundred years ago in the wreckage of a 2000-year-old ship. For much of the last century, researchers like Dr. Daryn Lehoux in the Classics Department at Queen's University in Kingston at have been trying to figure out what this complex mechanical device can do.
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qq-2009-10-24_02-Babies & Talk
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
Canadian researcher Dr. Athena Vouloumanos, a professor of Psychology at New York University, was interested in testing the idea that infants have a built-in affinity for human speech.
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qq-2009-10-24_03-Human Footprints in the Mud
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
Dr. John Smol, a professor of biology and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change at Queen's University in Kingston, has analyzed a sedimentary record reaching back much farther than any found before.
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qq-2009-10-24_04-Macaque Moms Go Goo-Goo
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
Dr. Annika Paukner at the National Institutes of Health Animal Center in Maryland has also observed the baby macaque mimicking the mother's various gestures of affection; interaction thought to be unique to humans.
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qq-2009-10-24_05-Ribbon 'Round the Solar System
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft set out to map the region between the edge of the solar system and the heliosphere, the bubble-like structure that protects us from cosmic rays. But according to Dr. David McComas, the IBEX Principal Investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, the spacecraft found something completely unexpected - a mysterious bright ribbon of particles.
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qq-2009-10-24_06-Science Fact or Fiction
Sat, Oct 24, 2009
"You Will Ruin Your Eyesight if You Read in The Dark". Dr. Alan Cruess, Professor and Head of The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Dalhousie University in Halifax says -science fiction.
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