Quirks and Quarks

By CBC

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Subscribers: 2315
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Episodes: 27

Keith
 Oct 18, 2022

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 Oct 3, 2019
by far my favorite podcast


 Aug 5, 2019

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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.


Episode Date
Tiny black holes that could smash through our planet, and more…
Apr 26, 2024
Bonus: What On Earth's Earth Day special
Apr 22, 2024
Why this Indigenous researcher thinks we can do science differently, and more…
Apr 20, 2024
COVID-19’s “long tail” includes a range of impacts on the brain and more…
Apr 12, 2024
The dark side of LED lighting and more...
Apr 05, 2024
An Australian Atlantis and other lost landscapes, and more...
Mar 28, 2024
The future of freshwater — will we have a drop to drink, and more.
Mar 22, 2024
How animals eating, excreting and expiring is like the world's bloodstream, and more
Mar 15, 2024
How disabled primates thrive in the wild and more…
Mar 08, 2024
The boreal forest is on the move, and we need to understand how, and more...
Mar 01, 2024
Icelanders reap the costs and benefits of living on a volcanic island and more…
Feb 23, 2024
A post valentine’s look at humpback mating songs and a marsupial that’s sleepless for sex
Feb 16, 2024
Scientists explore which came first, the chicken or the egg, and more…
Feb 09, 2024
An ancient tree’s crowning glory and more…
Feb 02, 2024
The aftermath of a record-smashing volcano: Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai two years later, and more...
Jan 26, 2024
Can diet and exercise be replaced by pills and more…
Jan 19, 2024
Could buried hydrogen help save the world, and more…
Jan 12, 2024
A Cave of bones could rewrite the history of human evolution, and more…
Jan 05, 2024
Our annual holiday question show
Dec 29, 2023
Seasonal science with reindeer, special stars and miracle babies…
Dec 22, 2023
The Quirks & Quarks holiday book show!
Dec 15, 2023
A young carnivorous dinosaur’s last meal and more
Dec 08, 2023
Cat facts — the latest science on our feline companions
Dec 01, 2023
How biodiversity contributes to human health and more…
Nov 24, 2023
Alien blobs in the Earth’s mantle, and much more
Nov 17, 2023
Eating fossil fuels, sea stars get a head, Right whale diet, music soothes pain and does biology suggest we lack free will?
Nov 10, 2023
AI research prize and risks, football and lifespan, smart glasses see with sound, most powerful solar storm and killer whale contamination
Nov 03, 2023