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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:

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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website QQ-030307- 04-Transgenic Salmon Genetically modifying salmon doesn't necessarily mean the fish have an advantage in the wild Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website QQ-030307- 05-Question, Blood Types Question of the week, do animals, other than primates, have blood types? 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-18_04-Erasing Fear Experiments with mice show how to remove conditioned fears. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2009-04-18_05-Limerick Contest Ten winners of our astronomical limerick contest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-11_01-Crab Pain Dr. Bob Elwood explains why he thinks crustaceans might feel pain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-11_02-Taming the Wild Rice Dr. Dorian Fuller talks about the 7000-year old legacy of domesticated rice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-11_03-Homeless Fish Dr. Isabelle Côté explains what the dilapidated state of Caribbean coral reefs means for fish populations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-11_04-Science of Religion Drs. Justin Barrett and David Sloan Wilson talk about why we've evolved religion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-04_01-Embracing the Wide Sky Autistic savant, Daniel Tammet discusses his new book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-04-04_02-Seltzer Sequestration Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar discusses how to make club soda by sequestering CO2. 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Part 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_01-Bats Land Head-Under-Heals Dr. Daniel Riskin talks about bat-crobatics Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_02-Left-Handed Acid from Space Dr. Daniel Glavin explains why left-handed life on earth may come from outer space Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_03-Matriarchy Mystery Dr. Heather Watts explains why hyenas have evolved a matriarchal society Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_04-GOCE - Feeling Gravity's Pull Dr. Mark Drinkwater talks about the European Space Agency's GOCE satellite Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-21_05-Wait a Second - What's an Attosecond? 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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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_01-Horsey-aeology Dr. Alan Outram discusses evidence of the first domesticated modern horse Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_02-Binary Black Hole Dr. Todd Boroson discusses his discovery of a twin set of black holes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_03-Tracking Red Tides Dr. Raphael Kundela talks about solving a maritime mystery Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_04-Fish Re-evolution Dr. David Conover discusses the evolution of small fry Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_05-Walk Like a Man Professor Matthew Bennett has discovered 1.5 million year old human-like foot prints Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-03-07_06-Fact or Fiction..."so" Dr. Maite Taboada discusses why often use the word "so" to begin a sentence Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-28_01-Secrets in Scavenger Scat Dr. Lucinda Backwell gives us the poop on the oldest sample of human hair Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-28_02-Leaping Lizards Dr. Gary Gillis discusses how losing their tail makes it hard for anole lizards to leap Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-28_03-The Evolution of Moral Disgust Hanah Chapman discusses the link between our reaction to rotten food and rotten behaviour Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-28_04-Alien Life on Earth Dr. Paul Davies discusses the possibility of alien forms of life on Earth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-28_05-Kepler Mission Dr. David Koch discusses NASA's Kepler Mission and its mission to look for habitable planets Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-21_01-Animals Make us Human Dr. Temple Grandin discusses her new book, Animals Make us Human Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-21_02-Spitting Cobras Dr. Bruce Young discusses how to wrangle sharp-shooting serpents Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2009-02-21_03-Losers with Winners' Brains Dr. Luke Clark discusses why our brains sometimes interpret losing like winning. 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David Keith and Frank Zeman discuss ways of sequestering CO2 directly from the atmosphere Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quirks & Quarks - 2008-12-27_01 - Segmented Episode orphan ants, urinary tract infections, new elements, sea mammal thirst, tiny black holes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quirks & Quarks - 2008-12-27_02 - Segmented Episode why cry?, surfacing worms, flat-topped solar system, what's a floater, efficient stair climbing Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2008-12-20_01-Imagining Head-Smashed-In How aboriginal americans convinced bison to kill themselves Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website qq-2008-12-20_02-Becoming Batman A scientist's instructions for becoming a super-hero. 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