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:

 The Great Barrier Reef sounds sick, so baby fish aren't attracted to it | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:48

Climate change is silencing coral reefs, which is killing them even further

 Ancient Peruvians sacrificed 140 children by tearing their hearts out | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:34

Ancient Peruvians sacrificed 140 children to appease ‘El Nino’ gods

 Could this Pentagon-developed ‘ray gun’ have stopped the Toronto van attack? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:14

New Pentagon developed tech can stop threatening vehicles in their tracks

 The first bird beak came with teeth as well | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:40

Early bird skull still had many dinosaur features

 Will the Earth ever have a ‘dark side’ | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:37

Can the orbit of the Earth ever become locked to the Sun?

 Doctor’s group wants to scrap Canada’s medical cannabis program | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17:20

If marijuana is legal for all, do doctors still need to be prescribing it?

 Right stuff, wrong gender - the true story of the women who almost went to the moon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:06

Meet the women who almost went to the moon in the new Netflix Doc "Mercury 13"

 An ancient giant sloth hunt, frozen in time | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:17

10,000 year old sloth hunt frozen in time in fossil footprints

 Study after study has shown that corporate anti-bias training doesn’t work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:12

Sorry Starbucks - your day of diversity training won’t work

 How do tiny songbirds sing so loud, for so long? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:02:47

How do tiny birds such as the Pacific Wren, produce loud and long songs?

 Kamikaze ants blow themselves up and cover their victims with killer slime | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:04

Explosive ant blows itself up for the good of the colony

 A scientific history of chemical weapons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:14:16

Scientific chemical weapons context for Syria’s latest alleged attack

 Deep-diving ‘sea nomads‘ have evolved an internal scuba tank | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:09:28

Human "Sea Nomads" have evolved to free-dive for long periods of time

 Trans Mountain spill ‘could have significant impacts’ says Canadian government scientist | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:15:13

What science has to say about the risks of a bitumen spill

 One of the most venomous fish in the ocean also has switchblade eyes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:33

The already dangerous stonefish now found to carry switchblades

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