[NatureNS] re Quirks and Quarks, Nov. 4/06,

Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:48:53 -0400
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Pete, This past Saturday's Quirks and Quarks at noon on CBC Radio One had an
item called something like "performance-enhancing shrimp" and was about the
omega-3 fatty acids being high in mud shrimps and how these oils help the
metabolism on the semipalmated sandpipers on their non-stop flight from
Fundy to South America by enhancing permeability of cell membranes, other
pharmalogical effects, etc. (John Michel Weber (sp.?), Univ. of Ottawa).

You can check it out by going to the Quirks Web-site and then choosing the
most recent program -- just type "quirks" and Google it, then choose Quirks
and Quarks Web-site, then Most Recent Program, then choose whatever item you
wish to listen to.  Also there will be links to abstracts of published work,
other Web-sites, etc.

However, at the moment CBC.Ca is experiencing problems with their Web-sites,
and you may have to be a bit patient about accessing the Quirks site.

Even if it takes a week or so to get at the site, they have an extensive
archive of all their past shows going back many years, so that you will be
able to find the Nov. 4th show without any trouble by clicking on Past
Shows, where they are arranged chronologically by year and date.

Other items on the Nov. 4 show concerned the seafood scare for 2048 (Boris
Worm of Dal. Univ. et al., in Science), Archaeopteryx having flight feathers
along its hind limbs as well as wings, toadfishes using urea rather than
ammonia for waste removal (urea makes it more difficult for predators to
detect toadfish by scent), performance-enhancing shrimp, Canada's math whiz
Dr. Coxiter? (sp.?), and question about orbits of Neptune and Pluto and
possible collision some day?

Finally they have an upcoming Question Show, for which they are soliciting
questions -- Q&Q t-shirt goes to each questioner selected.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

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