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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-2009-11-14_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-2009-11-14_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_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_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_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_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-2009-11-07_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