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Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio Loaded
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Jan 24: 'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more...
Tracking space debris using seismometers, using nitrogen to boost trees, how Mars shapes our climate, extracting ice age mammoth RNA and using lichens to find dino bones.
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January 23
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Keeping an eye on the far side of the moon
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January 23
Jan 17: Pumas preying on penguins in Patagonia, and more...
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January 16
Jan 10: A discovery in dino vomit, and more…
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January 9
Jan 3: Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!
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January 2
Analysis
Bob McDonald’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2025
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January 2
Quirks & Quarks Cont
Dec 27th: A 25-year-old Quirks & Quarks time capsule with science predictions for 2025
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December 26, 2025
Analysis
25 years ago, we imagined what science would be like in 2025. What we got right — and wrong
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December 26, 2025
Q&A
Scientist says we’ve got whale song all wrong
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December 22, 2025
Dec 20: Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!
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December 19, 2025
Analysis
One 'light day' for Voyager 1, a half a lifetime for this science journalist
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December 19, 2025
Dec 13: How Jeremy Hansen is prepping for the moon, and more…
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December 15, 2025
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Next stop, the moon! Artemis II starting to feel 'very real' for astronaut Jeremy Hansen
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December 12, 2025
Dec 6: Cleveland’s ancient car-sized sea monster had bony fangs, and more...
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December 7, 2025
Analysis
The 'Internet of Animals' has new eyes in space to soon track wildlife from above
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December 5, 2025
Nov 29: The environmental costs of nation-building, and more...
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November 28, 2025
Analysis
After 10 years of delay, the controversial Thirty Meter Telescope may finally get built — in Spain
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November 28, 2025
Nov 22: The mystery of the drunken trees, and more...
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November 21, 2025
Analysis
ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less
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November 25, 2025
Nov 15: Making snake bites less deadly, and more…
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November 17, 2025
Analysis
Spacecraft designed to study the effect of solar storms delayed by a solar storm
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November 14, 2025
Nov 8: The pros and cons of geoengineering, and more...
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November 13, 2025
Analysis
How NASA’s proposed budget cuts could threaten the future of space exploration
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November 7, 2025
Nov 1: Sleuthing out scientific fraud, and more...
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October 31, 2025
Oct 25: Rise of the zombie bugs, and more...
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October 24, 2025
Oct 18: Moose are hot and bothered, and more...
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October 17, 2025
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