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Q | Jun 19, 2013
Film writer Joe Queenan on why he thinks we've reached our cultural limits with superhero films. Mexican-American director Guillermo del Toro on his new movie, "Pacific Rim." Author and former hotelier Jacob Tomsky on whether room service is dying.
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As It Happens | Jun 19, 2013
When a publicly-paid employee of the Prime Minister's Office offers a story to a Barrie, Ontario weekly newspaper, The Advance -- but asks that it be attributed only to a "source", editor Laurie Martin makes it front-page news.
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WireTap | Jun 15, 2013
"L'enfer, c'est les autres!" said Sartre, and Sheila Heti thinks he may have been right, as she ponders whether it's possible to quit people. And a solipsist questions whether other people even exist, and Josh realizes he's going to hell.
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Radio Noon Montreal | Jun 19, 2013
Martin has mixed feelings about Rae resigning as an MP, says he brought decency to Ottawa, but happy he will be fighting for First Nations.
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The Current | Jun 18, 2013
News that Montreal's Mayor Michael Applebaum is facing corruption-related charges has many wondering how the city will govern moving forward. Should Montreal be placed under trusteeship by the province amidst Applebaum’s arrest and charges?
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Writers and Company | Jun 16, 2013
Eleanor Wachtel speaks with British-American novelist, poet and memoirist, James Lasdun. His latest book is a complex account of being stalked, called "Give Me Everything You Have". This file contains audio not heard on the broadcast version.
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Nov 7, 2009 | 10:53Quirks and Quarks Disappearing Snows of Kilimanjaro AudioQuirks and Quarks Disappearing Snows of Kilimanjaro Nov 7, 2009 | 10:53When Hemmingway wrote "The Snows Of Kilimanjaro", he could not have imagined that the "snows" would become a thing of fiction themselves. According to research done by Dr. Lonnie Thompson the famous ice peaks of the Kilimanjaro will disappear completely in the next two decades.
Nov 7, 2009 | 8:26Quirks and Quarks Albatross With A Plastic Wafer AudioQuirks and Quarks Albatross With A Plastic Wafer Nov 7, 2009 | 8:26Albatrosses are well known for foraging over huge swaths of open ocean. However, when those swaths cover the North Pacific "garbage patch", where floating plastic has been accumulating, it's not good for the seabirds.
Nov 7, 2009 | 9:34Quirks and Quarks Redback Spiders: Cheatin' and Eatin' AudioQuirks and Quarks Redback Spiders: Cheatin' and Eatin' Nov 7, 2009 | 9:34The female Australian Redback spider has a venomous bite and forces her potential mates to dance for hours before deigning to mate with them. If the male stops dancing too soon, she eats them before they've completed mating.
Nov 7, 2009 | 4:10Quirks and Quarks Knuckles and Arthritis: Fact or Fiction AudioQuirks and Quarks Knuckles and Arthritis: Fact or Fiction Nov 7, 2009 | 4:10From time to time, we present a commonly held idea or popular saying and ask a scientist to set us straight on whether we should believe it or not. Today’s adage is: cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis.
Nov 7, 2009 | 8:21Quirks and Quarks New-Tron Star AudioQuirks and Quarks New-Tron Star Nov 7, 2009 | 8:21A supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A has been hiding a mystery: just what was left after the star went boom. When the remains of a star collapse on themselves, they're thought to form either a black hole or a neutron star. However, observations showed something that didn't really look like either.
Nov 7, 2009 | 10:53Quirks and Quarks A Gift From Space AudioQuirks and Quarks A Gift From Space Nov 7, 2009 | 10:53Only 8 Canadians have had the privilege and honour to travel to space. The most recent one is Julie Payette, who returned from her second space mission after spending more than 2 weeks on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Oct 31, 2009 | 23:48Quirks and Quarks Cancer as a Chronic Disease AudioQuirks and Quarks Cancer as a Chronic Disease Oct 31, 2009 | 23:48We think of cancer as a frightening killer, but the face of the disease is changing. We're better at curing many cancers than ever before, but researchers have also made remarkable progress in allowing people to live with cancer for longer.
Oct 31, 2009 | 9:04Quirks and Quarks Unicorn Fly AudioQuirks and Quarks Unicorn Fly Oct 31, 2009 | 9:04Dr. George Poinar has found a tiny unicorn, preserved in a piece of prehistoric amber. Of course it doesn’t exactly look like the unicorns you’ve seen in books and movies.
Oct 31, 2009 | 7:26Quirks and Quarks Two-Alarm Squirrels AudioQuirks and Quarks Two-Alarm Squirrels Oct 31, 2009 | 7:26It was thought that red squirrels made sounds to warn other squirrels that predators were near. The sounds were thought to be predator specific; a tonal sound for aerial predators, another sound for ground danger. But Dr. Shannon Digweed believes that red squirrels use the same sounds in all conditions.
Oct 31, 2009 | 12:18Quirks and Quarks Blast From The Past AudioQuirks and Quarks Blast From The Past Oct 31, 2009 | 12:18NASA's Swift Satellite telescope identified the oldest known gamma ray burst in the universe. It established a new record for the most distant astronomical object ever observed. The telescope detected light from a star that exploded 13.1 billion light years away.
Oct 24, 2009 | 14:29Quirks and Quarks Laptop of the Greeks AudioQuirks and Quarks Laptop of the Greeks Oct 24, 2009 | 14:29The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered a hundred years ago in the wreckage of a 2000-year-old ship. It was corroded, crushed and initially unrecognized as the marvel of ancient engineering it was.
Oct 24, 2009 | 8:43Quirks and Quarks Babies & Talk AudioQuirks and Quarks Babies & Talk Oct 24, 2009 | 8:43Dr. Athena Vouloumanos was interested in testing the idea that infants have a built-in affinity for human speech. So she performed an experiment on five-month-old babies to see if they understood that speech was something that only humans produced.
Oct 24, 2009 | 9:20Quirks and Quarks Human Footprints in the Mud AudioQuirks and Quarks Human Footprints in the Mud Oct 24, 2009 | 9:20Reconstructing the climate of the past is a vital part of understanding what's going on today, as greenhouse gases transform the world. Dr. John Smol, and his colleagues have analyzed a sedimentary record reaching back much farther than any found before.
Oct 24, 2009 | 8:08Quirks and Quarks Macaque Moms Go Goo-Goo AudioQuirks and Quarks Macaque Moms Go Goo-Goo Oct 24, 2009 | 8:08Rhesus macaque monkey mothers interact with their babies in a very similar manner to that of humans. Mother macaques kiss their babies, make lip smack sounds and hold their babies just like human mothers do with their newborns.
Oct 24, 2009 | 7:39Quirks and Quarks Ribbon 'Round The Solar System AudioQuirks and Quarks Ribbon 'Round The Solar System Oct 24, 2009 | 7:39NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft set out to map the region between the edge of the solar system and the heliosphere. But IBEX found something completely unexpected.