Quirks and Quarks from CBC Radio Podcast
1) Body language could be the secret behind the sweetest music
The science of sway measures how well musicians play
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) The good, the bad and the ugly of geoengineering, and more...
On this week's episode: studying a rare visitor to our solar system, eating saturated fats can mess with our internal clocks, holding hands with our 2 million year old ancestors, woodpeckers drill int...Show More
3) Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more...
On this week's episode: selling sunlight on demand, rhinos roamed Canada’s Arctic 23 million years ago, making a more precise parachute using kirigami, the winner of this year's prestigious Gerhard He...Show More
4) Rise of the zombie bugs, and more…
On this week's spooktacular episode: Wolves are afraid of the big bad human, methane spewing from Montreal’s largest snow dump, screaming babies make us hot to get our attention, baby pterosaurs died ...Show More
5) Moose are hot and bothered, and more...
Nobel in Medicine for a leash on our immune systemOur immune system has enormous power to defend us against the wide range of pathogens and invaders that nature sends at us. But it’s a double-edged sw...Show More
6) Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!
On October 9, 1975, CBC listeners across the country heard David Suzuki introduce the very first episode of Quirks & Quarks. 50 years and thousands of interviews later, Quirks is still going strong, b...Show More
7) Life at the limits, and more…
Remembering Jane: a conversation with Jane Goodall on her storied careerScience lost a unique pioneering figure this week. Jane Goodall — primatologist, conservationist and activist — died at the age ...Show More
8) Tracking Grizzlies in B.C with AI and more...
Let’s go, Grue Jays!New kinds of birds are not usually discovered while browsing Facebook, but an ornithologist spotted something he’d never seen before in a photo, and tracked down the strange bird. ...Show More
9) Understanding our inner light, and more...
Dust from car tires can be bad for fish — what might it do to us?As car tires wear, they shed billions of ultrafine particles of rubber that contain a complex mix of chemicals, including one called 6P...Show More
10) Science in Prison and more...
10 years ago we first saw gravitational waves — what we’ve seen sinceIn September 2015, LIGO—or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory—captured the ripples in spacetime produced by the ca...Show More