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Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald
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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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Saturdays at 12:05 p.m., Thursdays at 1:05 p.m.
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Jan. 28, 2023: Humans understand ape gestures, wolves eat sea otters, ‘Golden Boy’ mummy, polar pre-primate, Black in science update and domestication and taming.
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Jan. 21, 2023: Fork-headed trilobite, echidnas blow snot bubbles, Perseverance delivery drop-off, farming fish lose their fertilizer and inoculation against misinformation.
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Jan. 14, 2023: Exxon’s excellent climate science, dolphins drowned out by ocean noise, supersonic but boomless, climate change and insects, and designing Canada’s lunar rover.
54:01
Jan. 7, 2023: A real viral video, is scientific innovation stagnating, rocks from the Oort cloud, constipated scorpions, nature and nurture and why we try to cool fevers.
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Dec. 31, 2022: December 31 Question show
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Your brain may need sleep to repair your brain's DNA 'potholes'
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Just what are your chromosomes doing while you're sleeping?
Aired: March 9, 2019
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