Summer Science Spectacular
Quirks and Quarks

Summer Science Spectacular

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 3, 202654 min
  • Science

From camping out on 'bird poop island,' chasing down wild dogs in Madagascar, or even looking for bombs in a bog in Ottawa –– no one quite does summer like scientists. This week, we revisit some of the hijinks that Canadian researchers got up to last year as they left their labs to get their hands dirty in the field. FEATURING: Camping out on a remote island with thousands of screaming, pooping, barfing birdsDodging lions and mongooses to monitor what wild dogs are eating in MozambiqueSaving ancient silk road graffiti from...

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Welcome to the Best of Quirks and Quarks. This program was originally broadcast last September. Hi, I'm Bob McDonald. Welcome to Quirks and Quarks.

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Every summer, Canadian scientists leave their labs in classrooms and fan out across the planet to do research in the field, and we've asked them to bring that science back to us. So today you'll hear from a team searching for lost explosives in a local bog.

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It's funny when we started doing magnetometry subsurface exploration for mining, we didn't think that we'd be looking for bombs here in Ottawa. And researchers studying the reintroduction of wild dogs in Africa and what they leave on the landscape.

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