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Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Oct 25: Rise of the zombie bugs, and more... | CBC Radio On today's extra spooky episode: Wolves are afraid of the big bad human, tracking the invisible monster methane in Montreal, screaming babies make us hot to get our attention and baby pterosaurs died ...

Big thanks to the folks at the CBC's Quirks and Quarks for having me on as a guest to talk about Rise of the Zombie Bugs! It was great fun chatting with host Bob McDonald about my favorite zombifiers and what we can learn from them about parasitism, neuroscience and evolution 🧪

Hi Sam! I'm a producer at Quirks. Not sure why we've never responded to your pitches but DM me, let's set up a time to chat.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

Covid-19 vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence “Over and over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine,” writes former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

Covid vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c... via @statnews.com

"Over & over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine."

#VaccinesWork

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Here’s a video of @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social grad students Abby & Flynn removing an adult rhinoceros auklet for a body mass measurement after a respirometry trial. All birds were handled with proper training and permits. Listen to their amazing experience here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Sep 6: Summer Science Spectacular | CBC Radio Scientists spent their summer in some interesting ways, from eavesdropping on turtles, peering inside ancient mummies, dodging bird poop, scanning for WWII explosives, and even spying on wild dogs in ...

This is one of my favourite themed episodes that we do, where we get to really lean into the stories of scientists as explorers and adventurers. Season 50 of Quirks & Quarks kicks off today! www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Some suggest Tylenol is linked to autism. Here’s what to know. Conservative media and influencers are amplifying research suggesting a link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism.

NEW: in recent weeks, right wing media and influencers have seized on new research suggesting a connection between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism

Ariana Cha, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and I broke down the science and what MAHA influencers are claiming

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You can hitch a ride on it for a cool $4300 (or just go see it for like 20 bucks at the Canadian Warplane Heritage museum in Hamilton)

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

A line chart titled “Annual CO₂ emissions” shows the global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry from 1950 to 2023. The y-axis represents emissions in billions of tonnes (t), ranging from 0 to 40 billion t. The x-axis covers the years from 1950 to 2023. The chart presents a steady increase in emissions from approximately 5 billion tonnes in 1950 to over 36 billion tonnes in 2023. Key features include: A consistent upward trend from 1950 through the early 1970s. A brief plateau and dip around 1980–1983. A strong growth trend resuming in the late 1980s. A sharp increase during the 2000s. A slight drop around 2008–2009, likely due to the global financial crisis. A major dip in 2020, attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. A rapid rebound in emissions after 2020, continuing the upward trend to a new high in 2023. A blue line labeled “World” traces these changes over time. Below the chart, the data source is listed as the Global Carbon Budget (2024), and the graphic is credited to OurWorldInData.org with a Creative Commons license (CC BY). A footnote explains that the data includes emissions from coal, oil, gas, flaring, cement, and steel, but excludes land-use changes such as deforestation.

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them

The internet is full of misinformation. That's by design, experts say | CBC Radio We are surrounded by information, and yet, 43 per cent of Canadians feel it's harder to decipher the truth from fiction. Several recent studies look at why the information age is so confusing.

Good review of evidence.👇

The internet is full of misinformation. That's by design, experts say www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Me: "Our information environment is completely manipulated, and often people don't realize the degree to which that is the case."

We're living through a knowledge crisis!

Woo hoo! I'm super chuffed to be nominated for our Overheated special, especially in a category stacked with some really heavy hitters. Congrats to everyone!

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A quote from jury chair and CJF Board Member Bob Ezrin on top of a multi-coloured background

CJF announces Climate Solutions Reporting Award finalists

Read: www.newswire.ca/news-release...

#CJFAwards #JournalismMatters #ClimateSolutions

A+++ work!!

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Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility! Watch our Heritage Minute about legendary trans soul singer Jackie Shane.

Mar 15: The silent, long-term effects of COVID, and more... | CBC Radio On this week's episode: polar bear dens, modern sleep woes, climate change is bad for satellites, and an ancient Australian crater

CBC science show Quirks and Quarks just had another great episode talking about the long term damage caused by each COVID infection.

If you're starting to wonder why so many hard-core scientists are so contemptuous of our public health institutions, listen to this.

www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.

The South African fishers fighting fossil fuels On the west coast, local people have gone to court to try and force a rethink of the impacts of oil and gas exploration

“I love what I do. That is what I want to pass on to my children. We must protect the ocean so that they can have the same healthy lives as us.”

The South African fishers fighting fossil fuels - by @barrychristianson.com on @dialogueearth.bsky.social

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Stop dismissing Trump and his team’s *repeatedly stated plan to annex Canada* by, at the very least, bringing us to our financial knees, as a “negotiating tactic.” Sending people their relative’s fingers in the mail is also a “negotiating tactic. One practiced by criminals, not good neighbours.

A photo of a whiteboard with Mar 14 at the top and listing different segments, including one on Coronavirus.

Fun fact: five years later, we still have our show lineup on the whiteboard of our last show before COVID lockdowns hit. It never felt right to erase it, so we just left it.

If you want to know how concerned to be about climate change, talk to a climate scientist. Very.

If you want to know how concerned to be about the rise of fascism, talk to a historian. The ones I’ve spoken to are as concerned about our time as any other time in the last 100 years.

To Be Happier, Take a Vacation … From Your Smartphone - McCombs News and Magazine Blocking mobile internet for two weeks can improve mental health, feelings of well-being, and attention spans

In the obvious-but-it-needs-to-be-said category of science: blocking internet on your cellphone can drastically improve your mental health and attention span.

news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/to-...

I've just been carrying my daughter the few blocks to daycare because the sidewalks are impassable and she hates the sled. As if my shoulders weren't sore enough from all the shoveling!

#Medieval records reveal that transgender people existed long before modern medicine or assumptions about gender. An English literature scholar has been diving into 14th-century archives: By Sarah Barringer, University of Iowa 🩺 🗃️ #histsci https://buff.ly/3EGttMl

Hi! We don't usually have transcripts but for this segment I can get one made up for you. Email us at quirks@cbc.ca we can get it done early next week, if that's ok.