Tag: CBC Quirks & Quarks
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CBC Quirks & Quarks: Black Death origins, chicken domestication, the life of a mastodon…
CBC’s Quirks & Quarks podcast has some interesting stories this week. Origins of the Black Death… it didn’t come from where everyone expected A team of historians, archeologists and geneticists, including Philip Slavin from Stirling University in Scotland, has identified what they believe to be ground zero in the medieval bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black…
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CBC Quirks and Quarks: Darkness doomed the dinosaurs
The CBC Radio show/Podcast Quirks and Quarks has a segment entitled “Darkness doomed the dinosaurs — the extinction asteroid turned out the lights on Earth”. They speak with Peter Roopnarine from the California Academy of Sciences about the after effects of the meteor strike that took out the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.…
