Synopsis
CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
Episodes
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![Plastic tea-bag particles, Venus was habitable, driver memory fail, earliest North American migrants, Plants ‘terraformed’ the Earth]()
Plastic tea-bag particles, Venus was habitable, driver memory fail, earliest North American migrants, Plants ‘terraformed’ the Earth
27/09/2019 Duration: 55min"Please note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed." New plastic tea-bags shed billions of tiny particles into the cup; Venus is a hellscape now, but might once have been blue like Earth; Lethal memory fail: why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists; Ever older remains of early migrants rewrite the story of the first North Americans; Making Eden - how plants 'terraformed' the Earth.
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![Quirks Quarks women in science special — How science has done women wrong]()
Quirks & Quarks women in science special — How science has done women wrong
20/09/2019 Duration: 54minPlease note: We are discontinuing our segmented podcast feed. Please subscribe to the whole show feed. The glass obstacle course: Why so few women hold the top spots in STEM disciplines; Women’s brains ARE built for science. Modern neuroscience explodes an old myth; Women and science suffer when medical research doesn’t study females.
