Maritimes: At The Table

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Countdown - Too Many People on the Planet?, plus The IPCC Climate Report, Asian Carp in the Great Lakes, and more - 2013/09/28

You're Getting Warmer, Handful of Asian Carp Could Overwhelm Great Lakes, Cheetah's Savvy Hunting Strategy, Population Countdown.

Download Countdown - Too Many People on the Planet?, plus The IPCC Climate Report, Asian Carp in the Great Lakes, and more - 2013/09/28
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The Soup That Killed The Reef, plus Making Yourself Invisible to Mosquitoes, The Rivers of The Sahara, Babies Indentify With Lemurs, and more - 2013/09/21

Overfishing Sharks Damages Coral Reefs, Human Babies Learn From Lemurs, Mosquito Invisibility Cloak, Neanderthals Used Sophisticated Tools, Cat Parasite Brainwashes Mice, Were Ancient Sahara Rivers Migration Routes?

Download The Soup That Killed The Reef, plus Making Yourself Invisible to Mosquitoes, The Rivers of The Sahara, Babies Indentify With Lemurs, and more - 2013/09/21
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Habitable Planet Hunter is Hobbled, plus Taking The Piss out of Urine Analysis, Train The Brain Game Gain, and more - 2013/09/14

Seniors Gain From Train-The-Brain Game, Mercenary Ants, The Encyclo-Pee-Dia of Urine, Happy Sea Otters Means Healthy Seagrass, Life After Kepler.

Download Habitable Planet Hunter is Hobbled, plus Taking The Piss out of Urine Analysis, Train The Brain Game Gain, and more - 2013/09/14
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Voyager Tribute podcast - 2013/09/13

Archival tribute as Voyager 1 Spacecraft leaves the Solar System.

Download Voyager Tribute podcast - 2013/09/13
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Rack of Lab, the First In-Vitro Burger, plus Greenland's Grand Canyon, The Sun's Magnetic Polarity Flip, and more - 2013/09/07

Cultured Meat - Flesh or Fantasy, Greenland's Grand Canyon, First Use of Fertilizer For Farming, Solar Flip-Flop.

Download Rack of Lab, the First In-Vitro Burger, plus Greenland's Grand Canyon, The Sun's Magnetic Polarity Flip, and more - 2013/09/07
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Krakatoa Anniversary - 2013/08/27

From the Quirks archives, a program about the Krakatoa eruption.

Download Krakatoa Anniversary - 2013/08/27
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Podcast update

The Quirks podcast will return in September. Have a great summer

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Quirks Podcast Extra Episode, Noisy Cuban Tree Frogs, Radiation en Route to Mars, Bob Goes To Sea, and more - 2013/06/29

Ancient Egyptians Made Jewellery From Meteorites, Radiation En Route to Mars, Cuban Tree Frogs Are The Loud New Neighbours, Bob Goes To Sea to See Some Ocean Research.

Download Quirks Podcast Extra Episode, Noisy Cuban Tree Frogs, Radiation en Route to Mars, Bob Goes To Sea, and more - 2013/06/29
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How To Build A Brain, plus The Next Big One is Any Day for the West Coast, Still Life With Cabbage, and more - 2013/06/22

Predicting The Next Big One, Cabbage Circadian Clock Keeps Ticking After Picking, Fish Swimming in Pharmaceutical Soup, Building A Brain.

Download How To Build A Brain, plus The Next Big One is Any Day for the West Coast, Still Life With Cabbage, and more - 2013/06/22
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Quirks & Quarks Question Road Show From Halifax

Ten science questions are answered in the annual Question Road Show before a live audience in Halifax

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Ground Control to Major Bob, plus Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceans, The Oldest Primate Skeleton, and more - 2013/06/08

The Return of Chris Hadfield, Oldest Primate Skeleton, Gill-net Drownings Depress Seabird Populations, Stung! Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean.

Download Ground Control to Major Bob, plus Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceans, The Oldest Primate Skeleton, and more - 2013/06/08
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A Receding Glacier Gathers Some Moss, plus Glitches in a Neutron Star, How Dinosaurs Tore Flesh From Bone, and more - 2013/06/01

Wings and White-Nose Syndrome in Bats, Moss Revived After Centuries Under Ice, Fleshing Out Allosaurus, Glitches in a Neutron Star, How The Turtle Got Its Shell, Malaria's Malign Modification of Mosquitos.

Download A Receding Glacier Gathers Some Moss, plus Glitches in a Neutron Star, How Dinosaurs Tore Flesh From Bone, and more - 2013/06/01
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The Origin Of Feces, plus Bacteria Survives Freezing Arctic, Earliest Cooking Pots, An Entangled Whale Suffers a Painful Death, and more - 2013/05/25

Arctic Bacteria Survives Below Freezing, Earliest Evidence of Cooking Pots, Entangled Whales Suffer Slow Deaths, Gila Monster Food Dehydration, The Origin of Feces.

Download The Origin Of Feces, plus Bacteria Survives Freezing Arctic, Earliest Cooking Pots, An Entangled Whale Suffers a Painful Death, and more - 2013/05/25
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Apps For Apes, plus The Oldest Water on Earth, Oldest Evidence of Man's Best Friend, Evidence of The Earliest Human Butchers, and more - 2013/05/18

Oldest Water May Be Clue To Life on Mars, Oldest Evidence of Human Hunting, Humans And Dogs Evolved Together, Apps For Apes, Beetles Make Antifreeze.

Download Apps For Apes, plus The Oldest Water on Earth, Oldest Evidence of Man's Best Friend, Evidence of The Earliest Human Butchers, and more - 2013/05/18
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Dinosaurs Big and Little, plus A 180 Lense Camera Based on Insect Eye, Hairy Bat Tongues, Acid Secreting Bone Worms, and more - 2013/05/11

Bone Head Dinosaur Diversity, Using Elephants To Study Dinosaur Metabolism, Hairy Bat Tongues Lap Liquid, Compound Eye Camera, Bone Worms Devour Whale Skeletons, Seeing Faster Than The Eye Can Follow.

Download Dinosaurs Big and Little, plus A 180 Lense Camera Based on Insect Eye, Hairy Bat Tongues, Acid Secreting Bone Worms, and more - 2013/05/11
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My Beloved Brontosaurus, plus Cannibals In The Womb, Slap-Happy Humpbacks, and more - 2013/05/04

Shark Embryos Cannibalize Their Siblings, Does Antimatter Have Anti-Gravity?, Humpbacks Take Fishing Tips From Friends, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Quirks Question Period - The Moon's Moon.

Download My Beloved Brontosaurus, plus Cannibals In The Womb, Slap-Happy Humpbacks, and more - 2013/05/04
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Paleofantasy, plus Why Rats Can't Retch, Voles Can't Vomit or Beavers Can't Barf, and more - 2013/04/27

Paleofantasy, Why Vermin Can't Vomit, Squirrel Stress Makes Big Babies, Bacterial Biofuels Made Better, Big Stars Make Long Gamma-ray Bursts.

Download Paleofantasy, plus Why Rats Can't Retch, Voles Can't Vomit or Beavers Can't Barf, and more - 2013/04/27
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Time Reborn, plus Worm Inspires Better Skin Graft, Penis-like Organ Cools Whale, Lake Erie Algae, and more - 2013/04/20

Parasitic Worms Inspire Better Skin Graft, Penis-like Organ Helps Bowheads Keep Cool, Beothuk Beliefs Inspired by Birds, Lake Erie Algae Bloom, Time Reborn.

Download Time Reborn, plus Worm Inspires Better Skin Graft, Penis-like Organ Cools Whale, Lake Erie Algae, and more - 2013/04/20
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Digging For Dinosaur Discoveries, plus Monarchs Use a Compass But Not a Map, Pacific Islands Searched for Missing Species, and more - 2013/04/13

Dinosaurs Great At Growing, Dinosaurs Do The Duck Paddle, Monarch Butterflies Navigate Without A Map, Shark Tooth Weapons Reveal Lost Species, Humans Caused Bird Extinctions in Pacific Islands, Electric Engines For Aircraft.

Download Digging For Dinosaur Discoveries, plus Monarchs Use a Compass But Not a Map, Pacific Islands Searched for Missing Species, and more - 2013/04/13
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Controlling Robots With Your Mind, plus the Firestorm that Killed The Dinosaurs, Why Big Dogs Die Young, and more - 2013/04/06

Big Dogs Die Young, The Firestorm That Killed The Dinosaurs, Giraffes Changed by Distant Feet, Rocky Mountains Imported From Overseas, Brain Machine Interfaces.

Download Controlling Robots With Your Mind, plus the Firestorm that Killed The Dinosaurs, Why Big Dogs Die Young, and more - 2013/04/06
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