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Join host Bob McDonald each week to find out the latest in science, technology, medicine and the environment. Primary Format : News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Montreal State/Province : Unknown Country : Canada Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Quirks and Quarks Podcasts Methings.com listings of Quirks and Quarks Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Quirks and Quarks qq-2009-11-07_06-Fact or Fiction Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? Dr. Kam Shojania says it's science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-07_05-A Gift From Space 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-07_04-New-tron Star A supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A has been hiding a mystery - just what was left after the star went boom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-07_03-Redback Spiders - Cheatin' and Eatin' 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-07_02-Albatross with a Plastic Wafer Dr. Lindsay Young, a Canadian wildlife biologist, has been studying just how much plastic albatrosses end up ingesting on their oceanic foraging journeys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-07_01-Kilimanjaro 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-31_04-Blast From The Past On April 23rd of this year, NASA's Swift Satellite telescope identified the oldest known gamma ray burst in the universe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-31_03-Two-alarm Squirrels 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-31_02-Unicorn Fly Dr. George Poinar, at Oregon State University, has found a tiny unicorn-like fly, perfectly preserved in a piece of prehistoric Burmese amber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-31_01-Cancer As a Chronic Disease Researchers have made remarkable progress in allowing people to live with cancer for longer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_06-Science Fact or Fiction "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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_05-Ribbon 'Round the Solar System 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_04-Macaque Moms Go Goo-Goo 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_03-Human Footprints in the Mud 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_02-Babies & Talk 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-24_01-Laptop of the Greeks 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-17_05-Science Fact or Fiction Do your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-17_04-Connected The ties that bind us to our friends and our communities, affect our health, our wealth and our welfare. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-17_03-Vegetarian Spider Dr. Robert Curry, and his team of have found what they believe is the first primarily vegetarian spider. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-17_02-Toads Dress for Mating Success A toad changes colour for the purpose of mating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website