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社会／文化

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地球科学

地球科学

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ビジネス

ビジネス

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社会／文化

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歴史

歴史

2025/10/08
ニュース

ニュース

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ニュース

ニュース

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1月9日

New dino species in another dino's vomit, and more

An unassuming fossilized slab in the basement of a museum in Brazil turned out to be 110-million-year-old dinosaur vomit, and inside that vomit were the bones of two strange, seagull-sized pterosaurs. PLUS: Loss of fresh groundwater is now the leading driver of sea level riseHow doubting your self-doubt makes you doubt lessA huge black hole in a peculiar galaxy may date from the universe’s earliest moments Shining a light on where viruses hide out in our bodies, and how they make us sick

1月9日

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54分
6日前

NATO's future, L.A. wildfire legacy, Nobel-winning economist, That's Puzzling!

Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Canada's former NATO ambassador Kerry Buck and international politics professor Mark Webber about the future of NATO Reporter Jacob Soboroff explores what last year's L.A. fires reveal about the politics of disaster Canadian Nobel Prize laureate Peter Howitt unpacks the economic theory of "creative destruction" Our monthly challenge That’s Puzzling! returns with special guest Andi Petrillo

6日前

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1時間35分
1月2日

Dust? Tongues? Uranus? It’s our Holiday Question Show!

On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks, it's our ever-popular and always satisfying Holiday Listener Question Show that includes: Why did a Canadian astronaut's eyesight change when she went to space? How is the dust inside our homes changing? Why do some professional athletes stick out their tongues when they play? Why are most fruits round, but bananas and pineapple are not? What would have happened if the dino-killing asteroid never struck Earth? We'll satisfy all these scientific curiosities and many more!

1月2日

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54分
1月9日

We're not machines. Why should our online world define life?

We gorge ourselves on the internet, smartphones, social media, information overload — all of it constantly sap us of our emotional and intellectual vitality. Authors Pico Iyer and Jonathan Haidt argue it's vital we disconnect from our addictive online world to pursue a fulfilling, and richer life. By curtailing the noise of technology, media and other worldly distractions there's space to reconnect with the things that matter. "Humans were never designed to live at a pace determined by machines. The only way we could begin to do that is by becoming machines ourselves," says Iyer. Pico Iyer and Jonathan Haidt were two of the marquee speakers at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival. The theme this year was 'What Makes Life Good.'

1月9日

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54分
3日前

How horses shaped humankind, from inspiring pants to vaccines

Prior to riding horses, no one wore pants. There's a lot to thank horses for in our daily lives. From the Hollywood motion picture to life-saving vaccines for diphtheria and tetanus. Historian Timothy Winegard argues horses are intertwined in our own history to the point that we overlook their importance. His research explains how they shaped societies, economies and cultures. Without us, horses would be nowhere, and vice versa. It was a partnership — our brains and their braun — that truly changed the world. *This episode originally aired on Sept. 10, 2024.

3日前

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54分
4日前

Why copyright laws do more harm than good

It's getting pretty difficult to read any article online without a paywall in the way. What happened to the internet's great promise to democratize knowledge? On an individual basis, artists, writers and scientists can create without fear of theft thanks to copyright laws. But in practice copyright laws set up barriers, stifle production and prevent equal access to art and research. In this podcast, producer Naheed Mustafa explores the fate of “open access” — all in the ever-expanding universe of copyright laws, paywalls and old-fashioned bureaucratic sludge. Guests in this podcast: John Willinsky is emeritus professor of education at Stanford University with an appointment at Simon Fraser University. Lokesh Vyas is pursuing a PhD at Sciences Po in Paris working on the history of international copyright law. Thea Lim is a Toronto-based novelist, creative writing teacher, and cultural writer focussing on the intersection of power, art and personhood, and technology.

4日前

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54分
5日前

Ontario's back. Alberta's next. Is hybrid work dying in Canada?

Since the first Monday of January 2026, Ontario’s public service workers have returned to the office five days a week, with Alberta set to follow on February 1. A new report from Statistics Canada shows hybrid workers are spending more time in the office and less time working from home. It’s a shift that has left many people frustrated. Our question: Should workers be forced back into the office? Has returning to the office changed your work for better or worse?

5日前

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51分
1月9日

How Scholastic became so tight with Canadian schools

Scholastic has been selling books, pens and posters to students for decades. Along the way, it's become one of the world's largest publishers of children's books, with titles like The Hungers Game and Harry Potter. So how did the relationship between a for-profit U.S. company and Canadian schools become so unshakeable? Also, we ask: Does happiness breed success, or is it the other way around?

1月9日

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28分
2日前

That's Puzzling! for January 2026

In our monthly challenge That's Puzzling!, Piya Chattopadhyay competes against one familiar voice and one clever listener in a battle of brain games devised by puzzle master Peter Brown. Playing this week are Andi Petrillo, host of CBC's daytime coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics, and Annapolis Royal, N.S. listener Jennifer Goddard.

2日前

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26分
1月5日

Ditch democracy. This movement wants tech-elites to govern

What do you get when you take some of the classic Enlightenment values like reason, fairness, and justice, and substitute them with opinion, privilege and power: The Dark Enlightenment — a movement that is a deliberate oxymoron with a vision to dump democracy and replace it with start-up cities run by CEOs. American blogger Curtis Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is the founder of this movement that advocates for the return of traditional hierarchical societies and monarchy-like governance.

1月5日

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54分

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