Elle Adam🇨🇦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!
Elle 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!
Dianora (Diane Bruce)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.
Likely Jan LukasHey, 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
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!
Diane Bruce VA3DBBumblebees taught a simple form of Morse code have a rudimentary sense of time
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/nov-22-mystery-of-drunken-trees-and-more-9.6987917
#QuirksAndQuarks #MorseCode #Morse #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #CBC
Nov 22: The mystery of the drunken trees, and more... | CBC Radio
On this week's episode: bees trained to keep track of time, eating small amounts of plastic can kill ocean animals, scientists spot winds blowing from our black hole and a "one-two punch" earthquake may be coming for the Pacific coast.
Bob hearing the zoologist talking about venom dripping from the snakes fangs ... "Wow" ...
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞Today's Quirks and Quarks has an interview with Jane Goodall from the archives.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/oct-4-life-at-the-limits-and-more-1.7650274
#Canada #Science #Biology #CBC #QuirksAndQuarks #JaneGoodall
From today's Quirks and Quarks
"Our experience of social media sites is that they often descend into extremism, divisiveness and conflict, but this may be a feature, not a bug. In a pre-print study on arXiv, scientists simulated social media interactions between AI-generated participants to test various interventions to see how they'd impact problems that emerge, such as the rise of echo chambers, the concentration of influence and the amplification of polarized voices. Petter Törnberg, a University of Amsterdam computational social scientist, said he was disappointed to learn that none of the interventions worked."
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-27-tracking-grizzlies-in-b-c-and-more-1.7644377
Even though we don't have algorithms we still end up in echo chambers. No surprise. We self-select.
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