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Quirks and Quarks

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Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment.


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Quirks Summer Podcast Message
We're starting repeats this Saturday. We'' be back with new programming Sept. 6. Have a great summer...

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[ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-21_01 - The Geography of Hope
Looking at existing communities that are trying to become carbon neutral: Samso, Denmark; EcoVillage at Ithaca, NY; Freiburg, Germany...

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[ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-21_02 - The Future of Hope
Looking at carbon neutral communities in development: Sherford, UK; Greensburg, KS; Dongtan, China...

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[ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-14_01 - The Question Show, Pt I
cats and low light, ancient craters, chasing itches, what is odour? brown banana peels....

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[ Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-14_01 - The Question Show, Pt II
The sound of water, bi-coloured eyes, bread in space, seeing double, sparrows in winter, ancient Manitobans...

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[ Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-07_01-New Light on Vitamin D
New research is showing hints of a range of benefits for Vitamin D....

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[ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-07_02-Wolverine Frogs
Several species of frogs are extruding bony claws through their skin....

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[ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-07_03-The First Mom
A fossil fish from nearly 400 million years ago has preserved embryos within it....

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[ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-06-07_04-Clothes Make the Bird
Painting birds reveals that a better looking bird seems to be a healthier and fitter one....

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[ Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-31_01-Pterosaurs Walk the Walk
A new view of flying reptiles walking and stalking....

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-31_02-Two-Mom Albatross Families
Albatrosses females who can't find males, find female partners instead....

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-31_03-Robomonkey
A Monkey feeds itself with a mind controlled robot arm....

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-31_04-Biochar-Black is the New Green
Biochar could prove to be a boon for climate change and agriculture....

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-31_05-Fact or Fiction - Catching a Cold
Fact or Fiction - does a cold quit being infectious before the symptoms go away?...

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[ Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_01-Birth of a Supernova
Astronomers accidentally catch a supernova birth for the first time....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_02-Frogamander - A Missing Link
Paleontologists discover a 290 million year old amphibian....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_03-Digging Deep for Life
Microbial life is discovered 1500M below the sea floor....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_04-Crafty Chameleon Camouflage
Chameleons customize their camouflage for specific predator's eyes....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_05-Crustacean Kids, Parasite Parents
A 100 year old mystery of what happens to a species of crustacean larvae is solved....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-24_06-Monkey Junk Food
Stressed and low status monkeys overindulge in junk food....

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[ Sat, 24 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-17_01- Landing of the Phoenix
The Phoenix mission to Mars lands next week carry Canadian instruments....

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-17_02-Dieting Fish
Fish diet to stay out of trouble....

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-17_03-Cold Dry Bugs
Antarctic flied dehydrate to avoid freezing....

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-17_04-Mantis Shrimp Super Sight
A savage shrimp sees in ways other animals don't....

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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-17_05-The Big Rip
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[ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-10_01-The Love Flower
An orchid seduces wasps....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-10_02-Food for Thought
The benefits of breast feeding for the brain....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-10_03-Rats in the Clouds
A species missing for a century has been rediscovered....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-10_04-Eating Monte Verde Greens
Seaweed discovered in one of the earliest American human settlements....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-10_05-The Ferocious Summer
Tracing a terrible season for Antarctic Penguins....

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[ Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-03_01 - T. rex: nothing to sniff at
Re-examining the skull of Tyrranosaurus rex to determine just how well it could smell....

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-03_02 - Babbling Baby Birds
Finding out that baby birds babble, just like humans....

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-03_03 - Spin Science
A Canadian researcher uncovers a 100 year old mystery about the science of vortices....

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-05-03_04 - Intelligence
Trying to understand what intelligence is and how we measure it....

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_01-Pulling the Plug on a Carbon Sink
Pine-beetle killed forests in BC are releasing huge amounts of carbon....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_02-Diet and Baby Sex
Womens diet before conception may influence the sex of their offspring....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_03-Plight of the Bumblebee
Wild bumblebees in Ontario seem to be disappearing....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_04-The Hot Topic
A new book on the problems of and solutions to future climate change....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_05-Argus_Satellite
A new kind of spy satellite will be tracking carbon emissions from space....

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[ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_01-Kluge
A new book looks at just how jury-rigged our brain actually is....

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_02-Neanderthals Speak!
Computers model the Neanderthal vocal tract, and possibly what their voices sounded like....

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_03-Barbary Lions
Tracking lions from the tower of London....

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_04-Greenland Floods
Watching lakes on the Greenland Ice Cap drain away....

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-19_05-Arctic Ice Shelves
Ellesmere Island's ice shelves are disintegrating....

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-12_01 - Male Monkeys prefer Boys Toys
Experiments establishing male rhesus monkeys prefer playing with toys considered stereotypically male, such as cars and trucks....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-12_02 - The Earliest Sex
Evidence that multicellular creatures were reproducing sexually as far back as 560 million years ago, which is further back than anyone had expected....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-12_03 - Listening in on Mouse Orgasms
Listening to the vocalizations made by mice during sex can tell us how to measure their pleasure....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-12_04 - Fresh Fish
Discovery of a brand new species of fish, with unusual traits, including binocular vision and a flat face....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-12_05 - What Bugged the Dinosaurs
A new hypothesis that suggests part of the reason dinosaurs went extinct was thanks to diseases carried by insects....

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[ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_01 - Old Poop
Archaeologist describes finding a coprolite (fossilized feces) left by one of the earliest inhabitant of the Americas....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_02 - Head-butting Dinos
Figuring out whether or not certain dinosaurs could butt heads without giving themselves concussions....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_03 - Screaming Cowbirds
How sharing a nest with a cowbird chick makes other birds scream louder....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_04 - Old Gold
Discovering the oldest gold artifact in the Americas....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_05 - Aztec Arithmetic
Decoding the script of Aztec documents to figure out the units of measurement applied to land maps....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-04-05_06 - Dolphin Toys
How Chinese River Dolphins make themselves more attractive by picking up adornments....

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[ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-29_01-Geoengineering
Engineering the earth to avoid climate disaster....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-29_02-Chimps Risky Business
Apes' gambling habits might explain part of human economics....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-29_03-Improv and your Brain
Improve jazz players lower their inhibitions....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-29_04-Gamma Ray Burst
The largest Gamma-Ray Burst ever observed hit Earth last week....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-29_05-Ancient Corn
The oldest evidence of domesticated corn ever discovered....

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[ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-22_01-Physics of the Impossible
Dr. Michio Kaku's new book on what just might be in our future....

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-22_02-Anna's Hummingbird
A hummingbird that chirps in an unusual way....

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-22_03-Alligator Lungs
Alligators use their lungs to manoeuver in the water...

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-22_04-Six String Science
A guitar made to illustrate stories in science....

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-22_05-Fact or Fiction
Fact or Fiction - Can cats jump many seven times their body length?...

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-15_01-Is There Anybody Out There?
Searching for life across the universe....

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-15_02-Pharaoh's Asses
Discovery of donkeys in a pharaoh's tomb....

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-15_03-Monkey Talk
Putty-nosed monkeys make complex communications with simple calls....

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-15_04-Fact or Fiction - Morning Sickness
Does morning sickness signal a healthy pregnancy?...

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-15_05-Feedback - ECT
Listener comments on last week's piece on Electro Convulsive Therapy....

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[ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-08_01-Shock Therapy
A new book looks at the history of this controversial psychiatric tool....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-08_02-Shark Cafe
Where great white sharks go to meet and greet....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-08_03-Battling Loons
Loons battle to the death to protect their territories....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-08_04-Wolves & Coyotes
How Coyotes deal with no longer being top dog when wolves return....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-08_05-DIY Event Horizon
Creating the edge of a Black Hole in the lab....

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[ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_01-Dextre - Giving Canadarm a Hand
Dextre, a robotic maintenance technician, will fly on the International Space Station....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_02-Birth of a Magnetar?
Canadian Astronomers see a young pulsar possibly morphing into something even stranger....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_03-Earth is Doomed - Again!
A last hope reprieve for the Earth has been struck down, and the Sun will swallow it - in billions of years....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_04-Follicular Forensics
Traces of isotopes in water are preserved in hair....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_05-The Great Warming
A look at what the Medieval warm period has to teach us about human history and climate change....

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-03-01_06-The Q&Q Guide to Space
The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space is in bookstores now...

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[ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-02-23_01-Your Inner Fish
Evolutionary Biologist Neil Shubin takes us on a historical tour of our anatomy...

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[ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-02-23_02-Salt and Vinegar Mars
Evidence from the Mars Landers indicates Mars was wet - but salty and acidic too....

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[ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-02-23_03-Gecko band-aids
New medical devices take a tip from the gecko's feet....

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[ Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT ]


qq-2008-02-23_04-Butterfly Mimics
What happens when butterflies have to remove their costumes...

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