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Dianora (Diane Bruce)Jun 13

From the archives: Isaac Asimov on human creativity and robots

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/squirrel-poop-ice-age-mystery-9.7233499

"Robots will free humans for creative purposes!"

Nowadays "Lets use an AI to write our story and do our pictures!"

#QuirksAndQuarks #CBC #Canada #NoAi

Fossilized squirrel poo full of ancient animals | CBC Radio

Ice-making fungus with 'phenomenal' ice-making capabilities may trigger rain or snow, how scientists are leveraging the mutations we accumulate over our lifetime for our health, animals regrow body parts and maybe we can too, and Isaac Asimov from the archives

CBC

Diane Bruce VA3DB Jun 6

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/multitasking-animal-sounds-9.7225102

According to this story we can multitask whilst driving but not texting because our eyes have to move from the road which is a great reason to learn morse code.

*whistles innocently*

#Science #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Morsecode #QuirksAndQuarks #ae8cbc60580

June 6: Humans and animals love the same sounds… | CBC Radio

The brain rewires itself to multitask, fast animals experience time in slow motion, an archival excerpt about a Russian space mirror and what physicists might build next to shed light on the unknown universe.

CBC

Dianora (Diane Bruce)May 9

A story about Hanta Virus is here as well.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-9-mega-tsunami-9.7192400

#Canada #QuirksAndQuarks #CBC #Hanta

May 9: A CN Tower-sized mega tsunami, and more… | CBC Radio

What we know about the Andres species of hantavirus, a mega tsunami that ripped through an Alaskan fiord, racoons solving puzzles for fun, lessons in caregiving from animal parents, an interview with Pluto killer Mike Brown and the secret behind 'wha wha' car window noises.

CBC

Dianora (Diane Bruce)May 2

Cocaine fish
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/may-2-cocaine-salmon-ai-scientist-9.7184174

#Science #CBC #Canada #QuirksAndQuarks

May 2: Cocaine in waterways makes salmon roam further, and more… | CBC Radio

AI 'scientists' as the future of science, how music can affect plant growth, scientists expose fish to cocaine, a short self-replicating RNA molecule identified and horses can smell fear

CBC

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Apr 18

Listening to Quirks and Quarks. Carl Sagan last interview with Quirks and Quarks.

We don't talk enough. We all want to order online and stopped talking to each other losing words.

The section at the end was very interesting about suburban wild animals. Author of "Outsider animals"

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/apr-18-outsider-animals-9.7168099

#Ottawa #Ontario #Science #Biology #Astronomy #CBC #QuirksAndQuarks

Apr 18: Why this biologist loves unpopular animals, and more… | CBC Radio

The world's 'oldest' octopus fossil is not an octopus, people are speaking fewer words per day, humans evolved to heal quickly from smaller burns at the expense of major burns and how undesirable animals like rats are more than just pests

CBC

Elle Adam🇨🇦Jan 25

#Dogs #CBC #QuirksAndQuarks

Yesterday, Quirks and Quarks (CBC's weekly radio science programme) featured research on gifted dogs that know the names of hundreds of their toys. The researchers also showed that the dogs can learn the names of new toys just by eavesdropping!

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jan-24-dogs-learn-9.7058251

Jan 24: 'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more... | CBC Radio

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.

CBC

Elle [email protected] has moved.Jan 25

#Dogs #CBC #QuirksAndQuarks

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jan-24-dogs-learn-9.7058251

Jan 24: 'Gifted' dogs learn from eavesdropping, and more... | CBC Radio

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.

CBC

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Jan 24

WOW! Bob again on QuirksandQuarks CBC science show. As I said, one sip of an alcoholic drink per Wow! and two for Boy! would make one very drunk by the end of the show.

#Ottawa #Science #Ontario #CBC #QuirksAndQuarks

Show thread

Likely Jan Lukas Jan 11

@Elizafox

Hey, I caught an interview with one of these researchers yesterday on #CBC's #QuirksAndQuarks.

This could be excellent news for eventually preventing future humans from having to live with #Lupus! ❤️

(Alas, it sounds like there is no anticipated way to make this learning applicable to people already infected with EBV and/or dx'd with Lupus 😢).

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/lupus-epstein-barr.html

#SLE
#EBV
#autoimmune
#ImmuneDisorders
#research
#ClincialTrials

Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry

The Epstein-Barr virus can convert B cells it’s infected into diabolical overlords that reprogram myriad other immune cells to attack our tissues, Stanford Medicine scientists have found.

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Dianora (Diane Bruce)Nov 22, 2025

Next drinking game. Every time Bob says 'boy' take a shot of brandy, every time he says 'wow' take a shot of run. One would be very very drunk by the end of the show!

#QuirksAndQuarks #Canada #CBC #Science