Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio show

Quirks and Quarks Segmented Show from CBC Radio

Summary: CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

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Podcasts:

 Why do Cheerios stick together when they are floating in milk? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:44

Cheerios stick together due to surface enery

 Rising carbon dioxide levels are turning rice and fish into junk food | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:23

Climate change is making food like rice and fish less nutritious

 Hurricanes are slowing down and settling in to do more damage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:03

With today's hurricanes you can't just wait for the storm to pass

 Scientists say restrictions on neonic pesticides aren't enough - we need a ban | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:11:47

Bees may be pushed to the brink of extinction if we don't ban neonic pesticides

 AI researchers develop a way to trick facial recognition systems | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:05

A new photo filter to keep computer face recognition from knowing who you are

 Crocodile Bach - what classical music does to a reptile's brain | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:56

Looking inside the brains of crocodiles as they listen to Bach

 Where was the Higgs boson particle 'hiding' before it was discovered? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:31

The Higgs boson wasn't really hiding, it just needed the right tool to come along to find it

 Kids and concussions - the latest science on risks and long term effects | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:37

What the latest science says about the risk of multiple head injuries in youth

 A gene for our big brains was rescued from the DNA garbage bin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:06

Discovering a gene that give us big brains

 The first Americans ‘island hopped’ down the west coast past the glaciers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:12:33

Tracking the first people in North America - how they got here, and what the did

 Animals vocalize 100 times louder than humans - it’s a matter of survival | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:35

Why are animals so loud - and why are we so quiet?

 Scientists discover secret polluters may be eroding the ozone layer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:46

Scientists discover someone may cheating on the ozone hole treaty

 Dino killing asteroid also took out the trees - and the birds that lived in them | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:08

The dinosaur killing space rock almost took out the birds as well

 Cancer researcher uses medical nanotech to deliver nutrients to hungry crops | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:08:19

Nano-nutrients might be a solution to increasing crop yields

 Great athletes have high performance brains, as well as bodies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:16:28

How neuroscience can help identify the million dollar sports brain

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