Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!

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Quirks and Quarks

CBC

18 episodes

2 days ago

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

Earth Sciences

Science

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CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

Earth Sciences

Science

Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!

Quirks and Quarks

54 minutes 9 seconds

2 days ago

Whales, sex, and rocks — it's our holiday book show!

We talk to authors of some of this year’s most fascinating science books in our annual Holiday Book Show.

INCLUDING:

Questioning the purpose of whale song — for love or echolocation?
Journeying through deep geological time to better tackle problems of the future
Biological sex is complicated but that's what helps animals like humans thrive
Mini reviews of: The Martians by David Baron, Dinner With King Tut by Sam Kean and The Mind Electric by Pria Anand.