The 2 Best Quirks and Quarks Complete Show from CBC Radio Podcast Episodes
1) Canada's newest Nobel laureate, reading surgeons' minds, sniffing out shark water, a moon in an alien solar system and women and autism underdiagnosis
Canada's latest Nobel winner is a 'laser jock' who loves the lab; Researchers are reading doctors' brains to see how good they are at surgery; 'Smelling' for shark DNA to see if it's safe to go back i...Show More
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I work in the field of professional credentialing. The second item about non invasive scanning to determine what part of the brain is being...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) July 21, 2018 - Bread came before agriculture, driving drowsiness, the science of 'Ant-Man,' geese race north, dolphins avoid the bends, Jupiter's new moons and a question of symmetry
A bread recipe from 14,000 years ago: wild oats, barley, wheat and roots. Your car might be trying to kill you by lulling you with sleep-inducing vibrations. The science behind 'Ant-man' - Did they ...Show More
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Conventional wisdom has it that the human dependence on grains for most of our calories came after agriculture started, perhaps 12k years ag...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Eradicating plagues forever, and more...
<p><strong>Energy with a grain of salt</strong></p><p>Researchers have developed a new sodium metal powered fuel cell with up to triple the output for its weight of a lithium-ion battery. The team fro...Show More
4) The recipe for finding life on other planets, and more...
Big birds with bitty brains are still kind of brightWe’ve learned a lot about the remarkable intelligence of birds like crows and parrots, but not much work has been done on large flightless birds. A ...Show More
5) A brain ‘car wash’ could prevent neurological diseases and more…
Octopus camouflage is incredibly hard workOctopuses have the remarkable ability to change their appearance in the blink of an eye – assuming new skin coloration and patterns for camouflage or communic...Show More
6) New fishing technology could save endangered Right whales and more…
Blood drinking bats can suck energy out of their protein-rich mealsVampire bats are famous for exclusively drinking blood, but they’re also surprisingly good runners. And part of why that’s surprising...Show More
7) A Nobel for microRNA and more
A Nobel prize for understanding how genes are turned on and offThe early-morning call from Sweden came on Monday to American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun for his work in discovering microRNAs, whic...Show More
8) Super-size penguins, planning a mission to Uranus, an Egyptian embalming workshop, a sandwich inspired water filter and 19 ways of looking at consciousness.
Gorilla-sized penguins once roamed New Zealand; The first dedicated mission to Uranus will investigate why it’s tipped-over; Archaeologists decipher mummification secrets in embalming workshop; Engine...Show More
9) Flying salamanders, headbutting animals and brain damage, undersea cable sensors, secrets of plant survival, why sharks matter and marine mammals and storms
This salamander is an unlikely but agile, aerial amphibian; Headbutting animals can accumulate brain damage; We can use the cables that carry the internet as environmental sensors; Plants that can sur...Show More
10) Losing sleep over climate change, growing plants in lunar soil, trilobite sex, the sound of biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and medical care and a question of blowing air.
Study says climate change could cause us to lose sleep – in more ways than one; Scientists successfully grow plants in moon dust; Fossil preserves critical evidence for how trilobites had sex half a b...Show More