Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!
Quirks and Quarks

Celebrating 50 years of Quirks & Quarks!

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 21, 202654 min
  • Interview
  • Science

For our 50th anniversary celebration last October, we spoke with some of Canada's top scientists about their predictions for the future. We revisit our conversations with: Evan Fraser, director of Arrell Food Institute and professor of geography at the University of GuelphKatie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical PhysicsLuke Stark, assistant professor in the faculty of information and media studies at Western UniversityLaura Tozer, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of TorontoAna Luisa Trejos, professor in the department electrical and computer engineering and the school of biomedical engineering...

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Quirks and Quarks is celebrating a half-century of science programming on CBC Radio.

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Hi, I'm Bob McDonald. Quirks and Quarks is celebrating a half-century of science programming on CBC Radio. Here's an encore presentation of our 50th anniversary show recorded last fall. Enjoy! Let me take you back to 1975.

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