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CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom… and everything in between.

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    What Animals Think And Feel, plus The Oilsands And the Athabasca River, Mosquitoes May Benefit in a Warmer Arctic, and more - 2015/09/26

    Climate Change Good For Mosquitoes, Bad For Caribou, The Oilsands ...

    Climate Change Good For Mosquitoes, Bad For Caribou, The Oilsands and the Athabasca River's Fickle Flows, Water Worlds May Be Too Wet For Life, Mantis Shrimp Pull Their Punches, What Animals Think And Feel.

    Sep 25, 2015 Read more
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    Saving Endangered Species, plus The First Mass Extinction, Hunting for Mysterious Neutrinos, and more - 2015/09/19

    Endangered Fish Species Missing The Safety Net, The Extinction of ...

    Endangered Fish Species Missing The Safety Net, The Extinction of the Ediacarans, Saving The Endangered Black-footed Ferret, Nuetrino Hunting - From SNO to Ice Cube.

    Sep 18, 2015 Read more
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    Quirks & Quarks' 40th Anniversary Season - Silent Spring in the Oceans, Math Anxiety, Pluto Unplugged, and more - 2015/09/12

    Homo naledi - New Species of Human Relative, Children Catch ...

    Homo naledi - New Species of Human Relative, Children Catch Math Anxiety From Parents, Plastics - A New "Silent Spring", Ankylosaur's Tail Had A Wicked End, New Horizons To Pluto And Beyond.

    Sep 11, 2015 Read more
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    The First Footsteps, plus Pluto Fly-by; The New Horizon Spacecraft Gets A Close Look at the Dwarf Planet, Putting Faces to the Franklin Expedition, and more - 2015-06-27

    First Footprints in Canada, The Destructive Pine Beetle Poses a ...

    First Footprints in Canada, The Destructive Pine Beetle Poses a New Threat, How The Turtle Got Its Shell, New Horizon Reaches Pluto, Reconstructing The Faces of the Franklin Expedition, Hallucigenia A-Head of The Game, Planet With a Comet's Tail.

    Jun 26, 2015 Read more
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    The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, plus, Urine For A Good Story About Bats, and more - 2015/06/20

    How The Camel Got Its Hump, Why Chimps Are Handymen ...

    How The Camel Got Its Hump, Why Chimps Are Handymen and Bonobos Aren't, Solving The Mystery Of Ross's Gulls, Male Bats Pee In A Pad, Elephant Don - The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse.

    Jun 19, 2015 Read more
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    Chimps Take Cooking Lessons, plus, Blood Cells Found in a Dinosaur Fossil In Alberta, and more - 2015/06/13

    Master Chef - Chimpanzee Edition, Dinosaur Fossils Preserve Blood Cells, ...

    Master Chef - Chimpanzee Edition, Dinosaur Fossils Preserve Blood Cells, Spectacular New Horned Dinosaur, Male Spider Purrs For Sex, Sport Fishing Makes Fish Harder To Catch, Question Period - Are Big Brains Smarter?

    Jun 12, 2015 Read more
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    The Annual Quirks & Quarks Question Road Show - 2015/06/06

    The Annual Question Road Show from The Perimeter Institute in ...

    The Annual Question Road Show from The Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.

    Jun 5, 2015 Read more
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    Robots That Just Won't Quit, plus Evidence of The World's Oldest Murder, and more - 2015/05/30

    CSI Paleo: Murder Most Ancient, Robots That Can't Be Stopped, ...

    CSI Paleo: Murder Most Ancient, Robots That Can't Be Stopped, Rare Rattlesnake Needs Forest Fires To Survive, 425 Million Year Old Parasite Found With Its Host, Antarctic Ice Is Slipping Away, Question: The View From The Sun.

    May 29, 2015 Read more
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    Cloning A Mammoth, plus The First Warm-blooded Fish, Diamonds Are a Plant's Best Friend, The World's Oldest Stone Tools, and more - 2015/05/23

    Oldest Stone Tools Pre-date Humanity, Babies Prefer The Sound Of ...

    Oldest Stone Tools Pre-date Humanity, Babies Prefer The Sound Of Other Babies, First Warm-blooded Fish, African Plant Signals Location of Diamonds, How To Clone A Mammoth.

    May 22, 2015 Read more
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    Dinosaur Cannibals, plus, Killing Them With Kindness: Are Bird Feeders Responsible For The Decline of Native Species?, and more - 2015/05/16

    Tyrannosaur Cannibals, Backyard Bird Feeders Harm the Natives, Caribou Face ...

    Tyrannosaur Cannibals, Backyard Bird Feeders Harm the Natives, Caribou Face Extinction Due To Development, Ant Uses Spring-loaded Jaw To Jump From Danger, Measles is More Dangerous.

    May 15, 2015 Read more
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