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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:

Not-So-Dirty Rat-qq1-Dec 10, 2011 Rats are empathetic, sensitive and altruistic when it comes to other rats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oldest Bedding Stopped The Biting-qq2-Dec 10, 2011 Seventy-seven thousand year old bedding included leaves with insecticidal properties to keep the mosquitoes away. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yeti Crab-qq3-Dec-10, 2011 A new species of crab grows bacteria to eat on its own hairy arms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scared Chickless-qq4-Dec 10, 2011 Fear of predation has a serious impact on songbirds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soy Source-qq5-Dec 10, 2011 Soy may have originated in three different countries, China, Korea and Japan. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-09-11_03-Muscling Up For Mars Astronaut's muscles can become dangerously weak during their six months aboard the ISS, making a trip to Mars a fitness challenge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-09-11_04-Fading Phytoplankton Forty percent of the world's phytoplankton has disappeared. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quirks & Quarks - Summer Hiatus Message We're on summer hiatus until Sept. 11, 2010, when we'll post new podcasts. If you'd like to receive our summer "Best of Quirks" repeat podcasts, please subscribe to the feed at cbc.ca/podcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_01-Australopithecine "Big Man" New evidence confirms that Australopithecine were capable walkers and runners and also suggests that the common ancestor we had with chimpanzees was more like a human than previously suspected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_02-Pigeons Make A Deal When faced with the Monty Hall Dilemma enough times, pigeons chose right every time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_03-Confused Parasitic Ducks In an experiment with Redhead ducks, which will lay their eggs in other ducks' nests, the 'parasitic' chicks were confused about mates, and courted ducks of their foster-parents' species. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_04-Bringing Up Baby Male Barbary macaques like to take an infant around with them, as a way of bonding with other males, especially males higher in the social order. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_05-Keeping The Bees Dr. Laurence Packer from York University in Toronto talks about his book 'Keeping The Bees - Why All Bees Are At Risk and What We Can Do to Save Them'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-26_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction - Mosquitoes and Dark Clothes It is science fact that mosquitoes are attracted to darker coloured clothing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-19_01-Aquaculture - The Future of Farming the Water A documentary report on Aquaculture - the world's fastest growing food production system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-19_02-Fish For Brains An achaeological site in Kenya provides the earliest definitive evidence of early humans butchering and eating aquatic animals; a diet that led to growth in brain size. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-19_03-Oldest Fig Wasp A fossil found on the Isle of Wight in England more than 100 years ago, has now been correctly identified as a 34-million-year-old fig wasp. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-12_01-Snails on Meth The effects of methamphetamine were tested on a simple memory task in molluscs, and resulted in significantly stronger and more durable memories than normal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-12_02-Oldest Shoe A perfectly preserved, 5,500-year-old shoe has been unearthed in a cave in southern Armenia; the oldest leather shoe ever found. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-12_03-Sharks Smell in Stereo Sharks use the different timing at which odors reach their nostrils, to determine direction of food sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-12_04-Foster Comets Some of the comets in our solar system may be fosterlings from other systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-12_05-Manufacturing Depression Dr. Gary Greenberg is a psychotherapist and the author of a provocative new book called Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-05_01-Dinosaurs With All The Frills Over the years, paleontologists have found many different species of Ceratopsians, each with a new and exotic form of bony frill and an assortment of intimidating horns; the latest find is called Medusaceratops lokii. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-05_02-A Mammoth Amount of Methane The extinction of large mammals, such as mammoths and mastodons, more than 13 thousand years ago, led to a decrease in methane emissions, which, in turn, influenced climate change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-05_03-Squirrel Adoption In a rare display of altruism, red squirrels adopt pups that have lost their mother - but only if they are related. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-05_04-Herzberg Medal - Dr. Gilles Brassard Canada's highest science honour, the Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, was awarded this week to Dr. Gilles Brassard, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing at the Université de Montréal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-06-05_05-The Upside of Irrationality Dr. Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, talks about his new book "The Upside of Irrationality". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-29_03-What's Shakin' Kermit? The red-eyes tree frog shakes the plants it perches on in order to send intimidating vibratory messages to competing males. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-29_04-Termites Rule African termites are not pests after all; in fact they help build ecosystems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-29_05-The Eerie Silence Dr. Paul Davies talks about his new book, The Eerie Silence: Renewing our Search for Alien Intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-29_01-Octopi Started as Duo-pi One of the harder to identify fossils of the Burgess Shale is a small soft-bodied creature, called Nectocaris pteryx, the earliest known cephalopod - the family of animals that includes squid and octopi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-29_02-What's The Matter With the Universe? Physicists have a new clue in trying to solve the mystery of why some matter survived but antimatter did not, after the Big Bang. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-22_01-Synthetic Cell This week scientists announced they'd created the world's first synthetic cell; an important step in understanding how to take synthesized DNA and turn it into a living organism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-22_02-Greenland Rising As Greenland's ice cap melts, the land is actually rising at a rate of 1 millimetre per year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-22_03-Adapted for Altitude The people of the Tibetan plateau have a genetic resistance to altitude sickness, and a different physiological response to the thin air of their homeland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-22_04-Monkeys Munch on a Locust Lunch A group of normally vegetarian monkeys in Ethiopia began eating locusts when swarmed by them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-22_05-Do Fish Feel Pain? In a new "Do Fish Feel Pain?" scientific evidence is revealed to help answer the question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-15_01-Losing Lizards Warming temperatures are responsible for the declining lizard population and could result in a worldwide loss of 20% by 2080. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-15_02-Archaeopteryx X-Ray Using the bright x-ray beam of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, the 150 million year old Archaeopteryx dino-bird fossil gave up its never- before-seen chemical history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-15_03-Chronic Wasting Disease A team of researchers have identified two prevalent strains of the deadly Chronic Wasting Disease; the neurological disease that affects deer, elk and moose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-15_04-There's No There, There By examining early images from the Herschel Space Telescope, astronomers saw something strange - a hole in space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-15_05-Adventures Among Ants In his new book, Adventures Among Ants - A Global Safari With a Cast of Trillions, Dr. Mark Moffett recounts many of his adventures and tells the stories of the ants he's known. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-08_01-Neanderthals in the Family The first draft of the genetic code of the Neanderthal was released this week, and scientists are surprised at how similar and how different it is from the human genome. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-08_02-Elephants Learn to Bee-have Elephants are afraid of bees; and new research in Kenya has found that even have their own word for 'bees'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-08_03-Copying For Success Canadian post graduate students won a computer simulation tournament that tests the theory 'copying can be more beneficial than innovating'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-08_04-Aphids Stolen Finery Aphids use special chemicals called carotenes to produce the colours they use to camouflage themselves on plant leaves and stems, an ability they borrowed from a fungus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-08_05-The Pill Turns 50 This weekend marks the 50th Anniversary of the world's first oral contraceptive - The Pill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-01_01-Chimps in Mourning After the death of a chimpanzee in captivity in Scotland, other chimps were observed demonstrating emotions similar to humans in mourning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-01_02-Icy Asteroids Much of the water on Earth could have been delivered by wet asteroids, early in the history of the solar system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-01_03-Mirror Movement The gene that causes the rare Mirror Movement Disorder has been identified. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-01_04-Floods Follow Ice At the end of the last ice-age, the planet warmed, but not without periods of re-cooling due to huge lakes of glacial melt water in the interior of North America, bursting their banks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-05-01_05-The Bird Detective Dr. Bridget Stutchbury is a biology professor at York University in Toronto, and the author of the new book "The Bird Detective, Investigating The Secret Lives of Birds." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-24_01-Pitch Lake Pitch Lake in Trinidad And Tobago is a bubbling, stinking, sticky deposit of degraded petroleum that's mined for road-asphalt, but it turns out to be alive with a surprising range of microbes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-24_02-Cutting a Guy Some Slack When the Japanese medaka fish is too tired to mate any more, the female goes easy on him by making fewer eggs available for him to fertilize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-24_03-Dinosaur Disappointment Diversity A new study has determined that North American dinosaurs were as regionally diverse as once thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-24_04-Winging in the Rain The White-ruffed Manakin bird of Costa Rica migrates up and down the mountains in which it lives, not to find better food, but to avoid the nine metres of rainfall at the higher elevations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-24_05-Hungry for Life A small group of human enthusiasts has been experimenting with calorie restriction - reducing their food intake by up to 30%, and they seem to be experiencing considerable benefit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_01-Silent Means Deadly Crickets, who were either naturally silent or had their noisemakers removed, fought more violently than those full of sound and fury; proving that they use bluster not to provoke, but to avoid violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_02-Caterpillars Walk the Talk Caterpillars drum their jaws and scrape their butts to ward off rivals; both motions evolved from more agressive and potentially deadly actions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_03-Mysterious Eclipse Using new technology developed at the University of Michigan, new images show a dark, dense, but partially translucent cloud passing in front of the star Epsilon Aurigae, solving a 175 year old mystery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_04-Devon Ice Cap Loses its Cool The Arctic's Devon Ice Cap has been losing mass since 1985. There is hope that understanding this might provide insights into the more important dynamics of the much bigger Greenland Ice Cap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_05-The Anthropocene - the Epoch of Humans A committee of geologists are proposing the idea of our time as part of the official geological time line to be called the Anthropocene. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-17_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction - Grey Hair and Stress The belief that grey hair is caused by stress is mostly science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-10_01-Make Pee, Not War A chemical in female crayfish urine tells the male she pees on that she's ready to mate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-10_02-Wat was Up With Angkor Tha ancient city of Angkor in Southeast Asia declined in the 14th and 15th centuries because of an unusual cycle of drought and monsoon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-10_03-Venusian Vulcanism Volcanoes on Venus have been found to be in the age range of hundreds of thousands of years, to a few million years, fairly new in geological terms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-10_04-Bright Ideas - 50 Years of Lasers Next month marks the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Ted Maiman's invention of the laser. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-03_01-Question Roadshow PT 1-#1-5 The annual Quirks & Quarks Question Roadshow, part one, questions 1 to 5. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-04-03_02-Question Roadshow PT 2-#6-10 The annual Quirks & Quarks Question Roadshow, part two, questions 6-10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-27_01-Homo Who-izzit? Genetic analysis of a finger bone found in a cave in Siberia, dating back 30 to 40 thousand years ago, suggests that this individual may not represent any hominim species yet described. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-27_02-Picky Pipefish Papas The male pipefish apparently invests more care and devotes more resources to eggs from the large females he prefers than he does to eggs from the small females he's sometimes forced to settle for. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-27_03-Dung Beetles Test of Strength Dung beetles can pull with force that, in a human, would be the equivalent of lifting 80 tonnes; but how do the weak ones survive? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-27_04-Who'll Fly Humans To Space? A discussion about the future directions of human space exploration with two avid observers - space and science correspondent Miles O'Brien, and author Michael Belfiore. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-20_01-Second Opinion in Second Life Journalist Alison Motluk looks at real medical and health advice available through this internet virtual reality game. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-20_02-Clockless Caribou Caribou seem to be missing the circadian clock that is essential to other animals Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-20_03-Train the Brain Brain workouts of imaginary movements could be used to operate prosthetics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-20_04-Dining on Dwarves Some Globular clusters of stars are the remnants of dwarf galaxies the Milky Way has eaten. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-13_01-Dinosaur's Oldest Ancestor The oldest known relative of the dinosaur, Asilisaurus Kongwe, has been found in Tanzania. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-13_02-Motivation by Anticipation Just knowing when you will receive the results of a test can influence your performance because we are motivated to avoid disappointment when we think it could be close by. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-13_03-Grasping The Gribble's Gobble The gribble is a small marine invertebrate and can break down wood into sugars for food; this could be helpful in understanding novel ways to produce biofuels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-13_04-Cold War Invations During the Cold War, dozens of invasive bird species arrived in Western Europe, largely brought in by the pet trade, while Eastern Europe actually saw a decrease in alien invaders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-13_05-A Brilliant Darkness In a new book, A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Dr. João Magueijo explores the mysterious disappearance of Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_01-Dinosaur Snake Snacks A 67 million year old fossil indicates a 3.5 meter-long snake curled up around a broken egg, as it hunts a freshly hatched titanosaur infant about the size of a large housecat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_02-Slime Mould Dining Decisions Physarum polycephalum, also known as the single celled slime mould has been found to be capable of risk management when it comes to chosing meals in dangerous environments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_03-How The Polar Bear Got Its Coat An ancient polar bear fossil shows that polar bears are relatively young in terms of evolution, and split off from brown bears only 150-thousand years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_04-Run, Jumbo, Run Filmed analysis of elephants moving at different speeds provides insight into the remarkable efficiency and effectiveness of their locomotion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_05-Typhoid Tricks Scientists have figured out how people can carry and spread typhoid disease, while showing no signs of it themselves, for many years or decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-03-06_06-Dust In The Wind Dust in the earth's atmosphere can have a warming or cooling effect; the cooling effect has contributed to the onset of an ice-age, and the warming effect has also been a factor in bringing an ice age to an end. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_01-Seeing Red Visual processing research has found that people's eyes move more quickly toward the colour red than other colours, so it may be an advantage to wear red in judged sports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_02-Here Comes The Spiderman The Palmetto tortoise beetle, which lives in Florida, has inspired scientists to create a device that may enable humans to scale walls like Spiderman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_03-Filter Feeding Fossils Examples of several fossil fish - which would have been the ocean's vacuum cleaners during the entire age of the dinosaurs, seem to have shared a similar fate and became extinct about 65 million years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_04-Right Whale - Wrong Conclusion Although whaling was a contributing factor in the demise of the North Atlantic Right whale, new research has found that it was not as genetically diverse as previously thought, and that may mean that the population was always much smaller than earlier estimates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_05-Murderer Turned Midwife A cell-killing protein has been found that can differentiate between the creation of new cells and the culling of old or damaged ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-27_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction: Cats Falling "A cat can survive a fall of 7 stories" is Science Fact - sometimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_01-The Toilet Training of A Shrew The nectar of the pitcher plant in Borneo is especially attractive to shrews; who in return defecate into the plant giving it much need nitrogen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_02-The Smell of Virtue Experiements show that people are much more likely to cheat on a simple mathematical test, if the lights in the testing room are dimmed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_03-Light My Fire Burning wood in coal-fired power plants for electricity resulted in considerable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, but was somewhat expensive, compared to coal and would required huge amounts of wood to replace coal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_04-Pollution in Solution Scientists have found that even while pollution levels were dropping generally in Canada's North, they were rising in a freshwater fish called the burbot, which lives in the Mackenzie River system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_05-Binary Quasar Astrophysics have discovered a double quasar system, which they think is a result of two galaxies in collision and the black holes at their respective cores essentially eating each other's lunch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-20_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction: Arctic vs. Antarctic "It is colder in the Antarctic than in the Arctic" is science fact says a sea ice geophysicist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_02-Staring Into The Sun NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory will be staring at the Sun with several cameras, observing the light it emits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_03-Ancient Human Genome For the first time, an ancient genome of an extinct human being - a male who lived in Greenland 4 thousand years ago - has been decoded. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_04-Teasing Babies A new study shows that babies as young as six moths old can decipher the teasing or manipulative intentions of adults. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_05-A Snake's Sixth Sense A small aquatic snake from Southeast Asia has two tiny tentacles projecting from its upper lip that defy evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction: Arthritis & Rain The age-old belief that "Damp or wet weather makes arthritis pain worse" is partly fact and partly fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-13_01-Dr. Thirsk's Weightless Workout To counter the effects of weightlessness, Canadian astronaut Dr. Bob Thirsk had a vigorous daily exercise regime during his sixth months onboard the International Space Station. The effects are still be monitored today - three months after his return to Earth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_01-The Neuroscience of a Gunfight An experimental psychologist has determined that a person who initiated an action actually performed the task more slowly than they would if they'd been the person reacting - so in a western gunfight, its better to be first than fast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_02-Raising The Speed Limit Using Usain Bolt's top speed of nearly 28 mph in the 100 metre race as an example, scientists believe that by maximizing ground force, that speed could be improved to 40 mph. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_03-Taming Turkeys Evidence has been found that the Pueblo People of the Southwestern US domesticated the turkey more than two thousand years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_04-Freeze Dried Beetle The larvae of a beetle in Alaska can survive temperatures of -100C by vitrifying - transforming into viscous glass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_05-Quantum Pond Scum A physical chemist at the University of Toronto has found that a common marine algae uses the properties of quantum mechanics to help it suck sunlight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-02-06_06-Science Fact or Science Fiction: Swallowing Gum If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for seven years. This is science fiction according to a gastroenterologist at McMaster University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_01-Colouring In The Dinosaurs Researchers have found structures preserved within dinosaur fossil feathers that they think are melanosomes - clues to the colours in their plumage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_02-Dinosaur Death Pits Pits containing stacked skeletons of numerous theropods were actually 150 million-year-old footprints of the 20-ton Sauropod. The much smaller theropods simply fell in and were not able to get out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_03-Twin Moons Separated at Birth Callisto and Ganymede, the two outermost great moons of Jupiter, should be twins, but one was smashed by comets and asteroids, the other escaped. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_04-Homing In On Echolocation In bats, a bone that connects the larynx to the bones that support the eardrum has been identified. It is called the stylohal bone and it is key to a bats' ability to echolocate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_05-Plant Punishes A Presumptuous Pollinator Scientists have found a plant this if taken advantage of by too many caterpillars, can switch the timing of its flowering to the daytime, when hummingbirds can pollinate it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-30_06-Sharing - for the Children A scientist has found out that a dominant male baboon will allow subordinate males to mate occasionally, so they have infants in the troop that in turn need protecting as well. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_01-Solar Powered Sea Slugs A sea slug has been discovered that has somehow developed the ability to photosynthesize - and live out its life as a solar-powered animal. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_02-Mad Cows & Cannibals A disease called Kuru exploded through a population of people in Papua New Guinea in the 1950's. It was eventually linked to their practice of cannibalistic funeral rituals. Many died, but now researchers have discovere that those that survived had a genetic immunity to the disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_03-Vanishing Tall-grass The tall-grass prairie used to be a major feature of Manitoba. The remaining patches have been in decline because it needed two things to maintain its health - bison and fire. The bison are gone, and fire has been suppressed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_04-Taking Directions From Slime Mould In an experiment matching the growth of Physarum polycephalum (slime mould) against an existing man-made network,the slime mould was able to mimic the Tokyo railway system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_05-Too Sexy Fruit Flies New research from the University of Southern California, Santa Barbara has found that female fruit flies are just too attractive to the males for their own good. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-23_06-Fact or Fiction - Alcohol & Warmth Drinking alcohol to keep warm is science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_01-Shaving A Fly With A Laser When the claw-like spines covering the genitalia of the male fruit fly were shaved off, they were far less successful at mating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_02-Echoes Of An Extinction Scientists believe that the huge spike in lung cancer rates among women in a remote region of China is somehow related to the coal that was being burned in unventilated stoves to heat and cook. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_03-Alligator Lungs The unidirectional lung function of the alligator may help explain why it thrived during periods of low oxygen content. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_04-Venomous Dino The first know venomous dinosaur, Sinornithosaurus, had grooves in its fangs used to channel the poison into its prey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_05-Permission For Planets Astrophysicists believe that fluctuations in density and temperature of the gas in planetary disks, pushes the planets around and allows them to find orbital safe havens in which to exist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-16_06-Sleep Learning New research has found that humans have the ability to strengthen memories as they sleep. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-09_01-The Humans Who Went Extinct Dr. Clive Finlayson, an evolutionary ecologist, at the University of Toronto has a new book, The Humans Who Went Extinct - Why Neanderthals died out and we survived, suggesting luck played a big role. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-09_02-Caught in a Fish Web The pressure we've put on fish stocks doesn't just affect the fish we catch. It also has a big effect on the ones we aren't even fishing for according to Dr. Nancy Shackell, with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans' Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-09_03-The 10% Solar System Solution Dr. Scott Gaudi from Ohio State University, has calculated that solar systems like ours might, in fact, be 10-15% of the solar systems in the galaxy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-09_04-Old Coots and Young Chicks Dr. Bruce Lyon at the University of California in Santa Cruz has found that coots use the first hatched as a template for what the remaining unhatched chicks should look like, but it can lead to mistaken imprinting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-09_05-Science Fact or Fiction - Appendix The human appendix serves no purpose: Dr. John Bienenstock, a professor of Pathology and Medicine at McMaster University says it is science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-02_01-Physicist Panel pt 1 Quirks & Quarks asked 10 physicists what they think is the biggest question that science has, so far, been unable to answer. Part One, from How did the universe begin? to Does Time exist? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2010-01-02_02-Physicist Panel pt 2 Quirks & Quarks asked 10 physicists what they think is the biggest question that science has, so far, been unable to answer. Part two from Is there a physical theory yet to be discovered? to What is empty space made of? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-26_01-question show pt 1 The Quirks & Quarks Holiday Question Show pt 1 - questions 1 to 5. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-26_02-question show pt 2 The Quirks & Quarks Holiday Question Show pt 2 - questions 6 to 10. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-19_01-Polar Obession A new book by Canadian Wildlife photographer Paul Nicklen, called Polar Obsession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-19_02-Poseidon's Steed Dr. Helen Scales is a marine biologist and author of Poseidon's Steed, The Story of Seahorses From Myth To Reality. She believes this fascinating creature is a barometer for the health of our oceans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-19_03-Dark Side of the Moon In his new book, Dark Side of the Moon, Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich and the Space Race, Wayne Biddle, explores the little understood early life and career of this icon of the Space Age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-12_01-Scientists See A Sea Cow Forty million year old fossil evidence of a new species of sea cow has been found in Madagascar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-12_02-Asleep At The Seal On their long migratory treks, elephant seals have the ability to sleep as they drift dive below the surface of the water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-12_03-Orangutans - Who's Your Daddy Femal orangutans choose prime males when fertile, but intentionally mate with lots of different males when not fertile, so as to sew confusion about fatherhood, and curb the rate of infanticide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-12_04-Perfect Rigor In her new book, Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century, Russian journalist Masha Gessen explores the life of enigmatic mathematician Grigori Perelman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-12_05-Science Fact or Fiction - Parsley & Bad Breath Dr. Kenneth Hamin, a dentist in Winnipeg, and an expert in Halitosis says parsley solving bad breath is science fiction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-05_01-The Rising Seas Quirks looks at one of the most visible impacts of climate change: rising sea levels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-05_02-Hammerhead Sight Some hammerheads have remarkable binocular vision; their widely-spaced eyes give them excellent depth perception and they also have an extremely wide field of view - up to 360 degrees. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-05_03-Birdfeeder Speciation Two groups of blackcap birds have become genetically different as a result of migrating to either Britain or Spain since the 1960's. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-12-05_04-Science Fact or Fiction Dr. Stephanie Baxter, from the Department of Ophthalmology at Queen's University in Kingston says it's science fact that squinting can improve your eyesight.. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-28_01-Arctic Slush Broken, slushy, decayed Arctic ice suggests that the permanent ice cover is in even more trouble than had been previously thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-28_02-The Poop on Mammoths Spores left over from the fungi that grow in mammoth and mastodon dung, suggest that some of the events previously thought to have caused the megafauna to disappear, such as changes to the environment, were actually the result of the extinction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-28_03-Pipefish Dads In the broad-nosed pipefish world, the male appears to be the perfect dad - until he cannibalizes some of his own embryos to give himself a boost of nutrition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-28_04-Taking Leave of the MAPLE Reactors MAPLE 1 and MAPLE 2 are two completely new reactors and can supply all the isotopes the world currently needs. But the MAPLEs have never been given the official go-ahead. And chances are, they never will. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-21_01-Countdown to Copenhagen In just 2 weeks time, representatives from 193 countries will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the UN Conference on Climate Change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-21_02-A Crocodile World Dr. Hans Larsson, a paleontologist at McGill University, has just identified five species of crocodilians that lived about 100 million years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-21_03-Accent on Crying The cry patterns of 30 French new born babies were compared to those of 30 German babies. The cries indicate country of origin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-21_04-Vampire Spiders 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-21_05-Name Your Poison 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_01-CSI: Mesopotamia Forensic techniques applied to two skulls from tombs in Mesopotamia, suggests death from blunt-forve trauma, not willing human sacrifice as previously thought. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_02-Dinos Run Hot Not Cold 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_03-Nazca Demise Evidence shows that the Nazca people of Peru may have sown the seeds of their own destruction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_04-Singing Wings The unique song of the Club-winged Manakin, a small South American bird is made by the remarkably fast flapping of wings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_05-Natural Nukes 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-11-14_06-Fact or Fiction "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. 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-2009-11-07_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_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_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_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_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-2009-10-31_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-2009-10-31_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_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_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-2009-10-24_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-2009-10-24_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_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_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_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_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-2009-10-17_01-Holey Jawbone A parasite may have found a creature that could have made T.Rex miserable. 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 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_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_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-2009-10-10_01-Nobels 2009 For the first time ever, 2 scientists with strong Canadian connections were awarded Nobel prizes in the same year: Dr. Jack Szostak for Medicine, and Dr. Willard Boyle for Physics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-10_02-Saturn's New Ring The largest ring in the Solar System has been discovered around Saturn by Dr. Michael Skrutskie from the University of Virginia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-10_03-Termite Termination When Dr. Barbara Thorne, a professor of Entomology in the College of Chemical and Life Sciences at the University of Maryland, pit two colonies of the termites she was studying against each other, she thought she might see a war. Instead, she saw the kings and queens of the rival colonies attack each other. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-10_04-Sheep - Shy and Showy Dr. David Coltman, a biologist at the University of Alberta, studied variations in sheep personalities, and thinks it might help with conservation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-10_05-Between XX and XY Dr. Gererald Callahan from Colorado State University has written a book about the myth of having just two sexes called Between XX and XY. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-03_01-Ardi Dr. Tim White, a paleontologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, has unveiled the discovery as a new species of hominid. It's the oldest complete skeleton of any member of the human family tree and dates back 4.4 milliion years. It's called Ardipithecus ramidus, or Ardi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-03_02-LCross Moon Mission Dr. Anthony Colaprete is the head of a NASA mission to crash a rocket in to the moon, on purpose. The LCROSS mission will make a crater 20m wide, and create a plume of ejected material six kilometres high. The point of all this is to scan the ejected material for water and ice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-03_03-There's No Pain in Team Dr. Emma Cohen, is a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has discovered that it is less painful to exercise in groups than by oneself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-03_04-Killer Whales Go Hungry Resident killer whales off the coast of BC choose to eat chinook salmon, or go hungry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-10-03_05-Coyote in Wolf's Clothing Dr. Roland Kays, the Curator of Mammals at New York State Museum, has discovered that coyotes were able to successfully adapt to the foreests of eastern North America by breeding with a remnant wolf population. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-09-26_01-Yawn Tennis Contagious yawning seems to involve the brain's mirror neurons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-09-26_02-Midnight Snacking Mignight Snacking may cure that late night hunger, but in mice at least, it may contribute to weight gain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-09-26_03-Gobbling Galaxies Galaxies become large galaxies by eating smaller ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-09-26_04-Light For Flight A deep sea worm lights up to distract predators. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-09-26_05-Synesthesia Senses overlap in strange ways called synesthesia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-19_01 Dr. Paul Sereno talks about a tiny dino Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-19_02 Dr. Jay Neitz talks about colour blindness in squirrel monkeys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-19_03 Dr. Tracy Kivell at Duke University points to human bipedalism evolving from the trees down. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-19_04 In this episode, a discussion about the potential and problems of space-based solar power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-12_01 - Oceans of Trouble Part I Alanna Mitchell and Bob McDonald discuss the state of the global oceans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-09-12_02 Oceans of Trouble Part II Alanna Mitchell and Bob McDonald discuss the state of the global ocean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website QQ-030307- 01-Walking on The Moon Again NASA scientists discuss what we should do once we go back to The Moon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website QQ-030307- 02-Caterpillars Clicking Caterpillars click their jaws to warn off predators, and follow it up by regurgitation Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website QQ-030307- 03-Antarctic Survey Collapse of the Larsen ice shelf provides a unique look at sea life. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-27_01-Watching Giants Dr. Elin Kelsey discusses her book, Watching Giants, The Secret Lives of Whales Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-27_02-The Big Thaw Ed Struzik talks about his book, The Big Thaw: Travels in the Melting North Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-27_03-How to Build a Dinosaur The perfect summer do-it-yourself project: Dr. Jack Horner discuss his book, How to Build a Dinosaur Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-20_01-This is Your Brain on Dough Quirks' producer Jim Lebans talks about the science of neuroeconomics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-20_02-Movin' on Up Dr. Brendan Quine discusses his design for a novel kind of space elevator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-20_03-Cambrian Killer Allison Daley describes the ferocious Hurdia victoria Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-20_04-Rose-Coloured Glasses Dr. Adam Anderson discusses how our brain activity changes depending on the mood we're in Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-06-13_01-Question Show part 1 Part 1 of the Quirks & Quarks Question Show recorded live in Toronto Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-06-13_02-Question Show part 2 Part 2 of the Quirks & Quarks Question show recorded live in Toronto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_01-Komodo Dragons Komodo Dragons kill with venom as well as violence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_02-Bobtail Squid A nocturnal squid that gets a glow on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_03-Poop on Penguins Scientists track Antarctic Penguins by spotting their poop from space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_04-Julie Payette Canadian Astronaut Julie Payette will be taking her second flight this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_05-Raining Meteorites The Earth's atmosphere might have come from wet meteorites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-06-06_06-Fact or Fiction - Age and Sleep Fact or Fiction - do we need less sleep as we age? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_01-The Skinny on Skin Dr. Julie Segre discusses the cloak of microbes we all wear Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_02-Spoiled Songbirds' Slacker Sons Dr. Liana Zanette explains that being the offspring of a privileged songbird isn't always advantageous Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_03-Solar Snacking Dr. Rory Barnes discusses greedy cannibal stars Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_04-Seeing the Centre of the Substorm Dr. Ian Mann gives a glowing review of the Northern Lights Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_05-The Lowdown on the Lithosphere Dr. Ron Clowes discusses his book, Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans - North America from Birth to Middle Age Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-30_06-Fact or Fiction Skin cancer and tattoos Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_01-To Bug a Mockingbird Mockingbirds can remember the faces of those who irritate them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_02-Acid Volcanoes Flex Mussels Subsea Volcanoes produce acid that mussels somehow survive Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_03-Basking Shark's Disappearing Act The world's second largest fish disappears for half the year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_04-Ancient Mercury Mines Archeologists find 3400 year old mercury mine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_05-How the Bees Knees get a Grip Petals have evolved so bees can hold on to them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-05-23_06-This is Your Brain on Fat Fat is a powerful motivator of memory. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_01-The Right Stuff, Eh? Our interview with one of Canada's new astronauts, Jeremy Hansen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_02-Herschel's Night Vision Goggles Dr. Michael Fich talks about the recently launched Herschel telescope Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_03-This is Your Brain in Neutral Dr. Kalina Christoff talks about what's going on in our brains when we daydream Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_04-Duck-Billed Protein Dr. Mary Schweitzer discusses some very, very old protein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_05-Heatstroke Dr. Anthony Barnosky discusses his new book: Heatstroke, Nature in an Age of Global Warming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-16_06-Fact or Fiction Dr. William Burrows reveals the shocking truth about bathing during lightning storms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-09_01-Hubble and Trouble A history of the venerable Hubble Telescope Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-09_02-Shrimp in Hot Water Peter Koeller explains why North Atlantic shrimp might be in big trouble. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-09_03-Mothers and Others Dr. Sarah Hrdy discusses her new book, Mothers and Others: the Evolutionary History of Mutual Understanding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_01-Polly Wants to Polka Adena Schancher talks about birds that can bust a move Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_02-Short Toes for the Long Run Dr. Campbell Rolian discusses how short toes help us run Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_03-Radio-Tagged Ants Dr. Elva Robinson talks about tracking ants as they search for a new home Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_04-Galactic Train Wreck Dr. Harald Ebeling discusses a galactic smash up Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_05-Fever and Autism Dr. Dominick Purpura discusses the link between autism and fever Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-05-02_06-Fact or Fiction Dr. Angela Mailis discusses whether or not women have a higher pain tolerance than men Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-25_01-A History of Violence Is violence part of human nature, really? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-25_02-Perambulating Pinniped A fossil of a "walking seal." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-25_03-Gasping Gators Giving alligators the oxygen the dinosaurs had. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-25_04-Blood Falls A red waterfall in Antarctica hides secret life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-18_01-Getting Serious About Play Why do humans play? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-18_02-Amazon Ants Ants that have done away with the need for males. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-18_03-Manipulating Malaria Marking elderly mosquitoes for death may be the secret to malaria control. 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Dr. Paul Corkum, this year's Herzberg Gold Medal winner talks about attosecond physics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_06-Fact or Fiction: Alcohol and Altitude Dr. Jose Lanca gives us the low-down on the effects of alcohol at altitude Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-14_01-Einstein's Telescope Dr. Evalyn Gates discusses her new book, Einstein's Telescope Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-14_02-Planning a Pitch Dr. Mathias Osvath discusses Santino, a chimp with foresight and a mean underhand pitch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-14_03-Clovis Camel Dr. Doug Bamforth talks about a 13,000 year old stash of tools and what they were used for. 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