Quirks and Quarks

Quirks and Quarks

71 episodes

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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Quirks & Quarks goes to the dogs -- a dog science special

Published: May 4, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 19 seconds

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Tiny black holes that could smash through our planet, and more...

Published: April 26, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Bonus: What On Earth's Earth Day special

Published: April 22, 2024, 4:43 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 2 seconds

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Why this Indigenous researcher thinks we can do science differently, and more...

Published: April 20, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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COVID-19s long tail includes a range of impacts on the brain and more...

Published: April 12, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The dark side of LED lighting and more...

Published: April 5, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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An Australian Atlantis and other lost landscapes, and more...

Published: March 28, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The future of freshwater will we have a drop to drink, and more.

Published: March 22, 2024, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds

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How animals eating, excreting and expiring is like the world's bloodstream, and more

Published: March 15, 2024, 6:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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How disabled primates thrive in the wild and more...

Published: March 8, 2024, 9:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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The boreal forest is on the move, and we need to understand how, and more...

Published: March 1, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Icelanders reap the costs and benefits of living on a volcanic island and more...

Published: Feb. 23, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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A post valentines look at humpback mating songs and a marsupial thats sleepless for sex

Published: Feb. 16, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Scientists explore which came first, the chicken or the egg, and more...

Published: Feb. 9, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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An ancient trees crowning glory and more...

Published: Feb. 2, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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The aftermath of a record-smashing volcano: Hunga TongaHunga Haapai two years later, and more...

Published: Jan. 26, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Can diet and exercise be replaced by pills and more...

Published: Jan. 19, 2024, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Could buried hydrogen help save the world, and more...

Published: Jan. 12, 2024, 5:10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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A Cave of bones could rewrite the history of human evolution, and more...

Published: Jan. 5, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Our annual holiday question show

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Seasonal science with reindeer, special stars and miracle babies...

Published: Dec. 22, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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The Quirks & Quarks holiday book show!

Published: Dec. 15, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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A young carnivorous dinosaurs last meal and more

Published: Dec. 8, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Cat facts the latest science on our feline companions

Published: Dec. 1, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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How biodiversity contributes to human health and more...

Published: Nov. 24, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Alien blobs in the Earths mantle, and much more

Published: Nov. 17, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quantum dot Nobel, super-hot supercontinent, lunar laser paving, neanderthal lion hunt, and evolving Eve

Published: Oct. 13, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Quirks & Quarks presents White Coat Black Art

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 44 seconds

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Quirks is on Summer Hiatus

Published: June 30, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 28 seconds

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June 24, 2023 Listener Question Show

Published: June 23, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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Black in science: The legacy of racism in science and how Black scientists are moving the dial

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 9 seconds

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Introducing: Tai Asks Why Season 3

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 42 seconds

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Fast radio bursts, monkeys with a puberty switch, black hole at our galaxy’s centre, and forever chemicals

Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Coronavirus and pain, sampling an asteroid, intersex moles, wildfires and CO2, Angry Weather and oxygen from trees.

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Sep 19: Woodpecker wars, hibernating squid, Viking DNA and COVID Vaccines

Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 16 seconds

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Sep 12: Summer Science Special — Fishing with the boys, COVID garbage, recognizing Black birders and Cougar kills

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 2 seconds

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Jul 3: Quirks & Quarks podcast on hiatus until September

Published: July 3, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 32 seconds

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June 27: The Quirks & Quarks Question show

Published: June 26, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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May 16: COVID unknowns, a giant sloth graveyard, drying northern peatlands, and this is your brain on fear

Published: May 15, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Introducing Unlocking Bryson's Brain

Published: April 14, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 5 seconds

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COVID vulnerability, COVID and climate, iring a cannonball at an asteroid and a fossil ‘wonderchicken’

Published: March 20, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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Introducing The Dose with Dr. Brian Goldman

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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Canada’s latest Nobel laureate and our election science policy debate

Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds

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