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NosyNed
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Message 61 of 86 (305230)
04-19-2006 11:34 AM


stream and download from Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio by 2 pm EST
(the following typo is theirs in the email )
Hell,
This Week on Quirks & Quarks we try:
"Hacking into the Universe."
Ever feel that your computer was lacking the power you'd like? It's just not fast enough, or capable of running your favorite game as smoothly as it could. Well, maybe you should look to Dr. Seth Lloyd for advice. He's a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who's working on harnessing the most powerful computer in the universe.
In fact, the computer is the universe itself. In his new book, "Programming the Universe," Dr. Lloyd explains why he thinks nature operates as a giant quantum computer, and what we can learn about ourselves, and the fundamental operation of the universe, if we can hack our way in.
Plus - extending the life of the sun ...
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One.

  
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Message 62 of 86 (310714)
05-10-2006 10:35 AM


Q&Q 06May13 Maternal behavior
see Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio on saturday to stream or download
Fighting in the Family.
This Sunday - Mother's Day - young children will be getting up early, making breakfast, and bringing it into their mother's bedroom, perhaps with a flower, and a crayon-scrawled home-made card. Lessons from nature suggest that this is all, of course, in the hope that their mother won't abandon them, eat them, or allow their older, stronger
siblings to slowly starve them by stealing all their food. Maternity
in the animal kingdom is much less pleasant, gentle and self-sacrificing than we like to think. And a Canadian biologist thinks that we can learn a little about how human families work, and don't work, from these natural examples.
Plus - deciphering dolphin dialects.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on cbc.ca/quirks.
Bob McDonald
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Message 63 of 86 (314872)
05-24-2006 11:35 AM


Q&Q 06May27
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This Week on Quirks & Quarks we smile all the way through:
"The Scientific Secrets of Happiness".
We all know that money can't buy you happiness. But new research into the science of happiness has revealed some more surprising results. For instance, did you know that we're programmed to seek happiness, but not to find it? Did you know just how tightly linked your health and your
happiness really are? Did you know some people are born to happiness,
but with the right kind of training, maybe we all can attain it? And did you know the worst threat to your future happiness might be a traffic jam?
Plus - why did the blind chicken cross the road?
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One.
Bob McDonald
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Message 64 of 86 (314911)
05-24-2006 2:12 PM
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05-24-2006 11:35 AM


Re: Q&Q 06May27
...new research into the science of happiness...
Somebody actually pays someone to research happiness? Man, am I in the wrong racket.

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Message 65 of 86 (316555)
05-31-2006 11:39 AM


Q&Q 06Jun3 Question show -- where are the bird bodies?
go to Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio for downloading or streaming on Saturday
This Week on Quirks & Quarks we have a special edition:
"The Quirks Question Roadshow" - from Edmonton.
Ever wonder why we don't see dead birds all over the place? After all, there are billions of them in Canada, and they don't live a long time.
So where do they go to die? Why aren't our lawns and gardens littered with bird corpses? Well, that's just one of the many bizarre, offbeat, and everyday questions that you can hear answered this week on the annual Quirks & Quarks Question Roadshow. Find out why we blush, and why our noses run when we go out in the cold; and learn how jackrabbits know when to change colour, and what causes the heat in the core of our planet.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One - or anytime on our web page: cbc.ca/quirks.

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Message 66 of 86 (316608)
05-31-2006 3:10 PM
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05-31-2006 11:39 AM


Re: Q&Q 06Jun3 Question show -- where are the bird bodies?
Nosy, your "where are the bird bodies" caught my eye, and I'll definitely be checking it out on Saturday. In the meantime, I want to share one of my favorite poems which prominently features bird bodies...
The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies
by Stephen Dobyns
A great cry went up from the stockyards and
slaughterhouses, and Death, tired of complaint
and constant abuse, withdrew to his underground garage.
He was still young and his work was a torment.
All over, their power cut, people stalled like street cars.
Their gravity taken away, they began to float.
Without buoyancy, they began to sink. Each person
became a single darkened room. The small hand
pressed firmly against the small of their backs
was suddenly gone and people swirled to a halt
like petals fallen from a flower. Why hurry?
Why get out of bed? People got off subways,
on subways, off subways all at the same stop.
Everywhere clocks languished in antique shops
as their hands composed themselves in sleep.
Without time and decay, people grew less beautiful.
They stopped eating and began to study their feet.
They stopped sleeping and spent weeks following stray dogs.
The first to react were remnants of the church.
They falsified miracles: displayed priests posing
as corpses until finally they sneezed or grew lonely.
Then governments called special elections to choose those
to join the ranks of the volunteer dead: unhappy people
forced to sit in straight chairs for weeks at a time.
Interest soon dwindled. Then the army seized power
and soldiers ran through the street dabbling the living
with red paint. You're dead, they said. Maybe
tomorrow, people answered, today we're just breathing:
look at the sky, look at the color of the grass.
For without Death each color had grown brighter,
At last a committee of businessmen met together,
because with Death gone money had no value.
They went to where Death was waiting in a white room,
and he sat on the floor and looked like a small boy
with pale blond hair and eyes the color of clear water.
In his lap was a red ball heavy with the absence of life.
The businessmen flattered him. We will make you king,
they said. I am king already, Death answered. We will
print your likeness on all the money of the world.
It is there already, Death answered. We adore you
and will not live without you, the businessmen said.
Death said, I will consider your offer.
How Death was restored to his people:
At first the smallest creatures began to die--
bacteria and certain insects. No one noticed. Then fish
began to float to the surface; lizards and tree toads
toppled from sun-warmed rocks. Still no one saw them.
Then birds began tumbling out of the air,
and as sunlight flickered on the blue feathers
of the jay, brown of the hawk, white of the dove,
then people lifted their heads and pointed to the sky
and from the thirsty streets cries of welcome rose up
like a net to catch the delicate and plummeting bodies.

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Message 67 of 86 (318678)
06-07-2006 9:45 AM


Q & Q 2006 Jun 10 Lefthandedness - diminutive dinos
This week on Quirks and Quarks:
Left. Right?
This week we search for the scientific truth about those sinister, gauche people who use their "wrong" hand to write and eat and throw a ball. Are Southpaws in their "right mind", and more creative, or just plan weird? We'll expose the myths and uncover the scientific theories about what causes handedness -- genetics, environmental factors or perhaps trauma at birth -- and examine what being left-handed means for the approximately one-in-ten people who count themselves as lefties, including the host of this show.
Plus - big insights into diminutive dinos.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page: cbc.ca/quirks.

  
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Message 68 of 86 (321443)
06-14-2006 12:02 PM


Q&Q 2006 June 17 Summer Science Reading, fowl fossil
This Week on Quirks & Quarks:
Welcome to the Quantum Zoo.
Here's something you might not have considered for your summer cottage
and patio reading. Toss out the spy thrillers, mysteries and romances,
and pick up a book on Relativity and Quantum Theory! It's not as crazy
an idea as you might think. British science writer Marcus Chown has
written a primer on some of science's most intimidating subjects that
actually tries to make quantum physics and relativity not only painless,
but fun. It's called the Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the
Neverending Universe, and you'll get a little sample of it this week.
Plus - a fossil most fowl.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon
news on Radio One.

  
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Message 69 of 86 (347787)
09-09-2006 2:25 PM


Quirks and Quarks new season today Sep 9
This Week on Quirks & Quarks we begin our new season with:
The AIDS Special.
The biggest science event of the summer in Canada was the sixteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Toronto in August. And Quirks was there to get the scoop on the latest medical research and to look at some of the global issues arising from the disease. One of the areas we examine is HIV/AIDS prevention, moving beyond the ABC's of Abstinence, Being faithful and Condom use, to the full alphabet of scientific interventions. We'll also hear about problems facing the fastest growing group of people with HIV/AIDS - women in the developing world.
All this and more, as we kick off the 32nd season of Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web
page: cbc.ca/quirks.

  
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Message 70 of 86 (348908)
09-13-2006 6:27 PM


Quirks for Sep 16th, biofuels, trap jaw ants
see Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio starting after 1 or so EDT for a download and noon local time to play it live.
This Week on Quirks & Quarks we take a look at:
"Growing Green Energy".
We all know coal, oil and gas are just old plants, buried for millennia by nature. Now an increasing number of people are wondering, why not skip nature as a middleman, and grab the energy from the plants without waiting millions of years? This week, we look at the new technologies for extracting green energy from plants and trees, known as biofuels, and just how much this could help solve our energy and greenhouse gas problems.
Plus - Trap Jaw Ants: the fastest jaw in the south.

  
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Message 71 of 86 (350693)
09-20-2006 1:43 PM


Q&Q Sat 23 --"The Trouble with Physics"
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"The Trouble with Physics"
Einstein may have been the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, but he also caused physics its greatest problems. The two ideas he’s responsible for generating, relativity theory and the groundwork for quantum theory, are incompatible with one another. This has meant lots of work for theoretical physicists over the last one hundred years, as they try to reconcile these two very different concepts. The great hope of the last quarter century has been something called string theory. But, with its extra dimensions and new particles, string theory is almost incomprehensible to most of us and, it turns out, might all be wrong. In fact, according to a new book, "The Trouble with Physics", it’s leading to a crisis in science. We’ll talk to the author on this week’s show.
Plus - how blister beetles become the bee's knees - and everything else.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page at cbc.ca/quirks.

  
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Message 72 of 86 (352610)
09-27-2006 10:57 AM


Q&Q 06 Sep 30
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This Week on Quirks & Quarks we probe:
"Inside the Mind of a Psychopath."
Alfred Hitchcock made movies about them; Truman Capote was obsessed by them; and newspapers just can’t get enough of them. Why are we so obsessed with psychopaths? And why do they do the terrible things they do? Well, scientists have been asking the same questions. And the answers may surprise you.
Researchers have been trying to get inside the head of a psychopath - literally - to find out if their brains are different from yours and mine. We'll find out what they've discovered.
Plus - exclusive recordings of the elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page at cbc.ca/quirks.

  
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Message 73 of 86 (355904)
10-11-2006 1:16 PM


Q&Q 06 Oct 14
Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio
This week on Quirks & Quarks we journey to the far north
with:
"Our Arctic Odyssey".
All aboard, as Quirks sails North to document science at sea. We join a group of Canadian scientists who are pursuing an adventurous and ambitious research program, studying the high Arctic aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen. This Saturday, we have part one of our report on how science is exploring the North in brand new ways, to capture just
how climate change is transforming Arctic ecosystems.
And you can read our Arctic Diaries on the web:
Sorry - we can't find that page
Plus - a flying dino: two wings good, four wings better.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page.

  
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Message 74 of 86 (357258)
10-18-2006 1:19 PM


Q&Q 06 Oct 21 Arctic Climate Change
Home | Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald | CBC Radio for download by around 1 EDT.
This week on Quirks & Quarks:
Our Arctic Odyssey, Part 2:
We continue our look at the science taking place aboard the Coast Guard Ship Amundsen, as it travels through the Northwest Passage, investigating how the North is responding to climate change. We'll look at the effects on the vibrant life of the Arctic Sea, as well as worrisome increases in pollutants, possibly driven by climate change.
And we'll examine how the land itself is being transformed by a warmer climate.
Plus - how to see an invisible cloak.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page.

  
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Message 75 of 86 (358783)
10-25-2006 1:17 PM


Q&Q 2006 Oct 28
If this looks the same as last week's promo, it is. We had to put in a repeat last week at the last moment - so this is the show we were supposed to run.
This week on Quirks & Quarks we return to:
Our Arctic Odyssey, Part 2:
We continue our look at the science being done aboard the Coast Guard Ship Amundsen, as it travels through the Northwest Passage, investigating how the North is responding to climate change. We'll look at the effects on the vibrant life of the Arctic Sea, as well as worrisome increases in pollutants, possibly driven by climate change.
And we'll examine how the land itself is being transformed by a warmer climate.
Plus - how to see an invisible cloak.
All this and more on Quirks & Quarks, Saturday right after the noon news on Radio One, or anytime on our web page.

  
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