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Quirks & Quarks for Nov. 1, 2014

This week, we find out how Giant Tortoises came back from near extinction; how early South Americans got high; why the Earth's magnetic field is about to flip out; how a virus invades from the past; and we mourn the passing of the Passenger Pigeon....
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Quirks and Quarks55:29Passenger Pigeons Gone, But Giant Tortoises Come Back, plus How The Earth's Magnetic Field Flips, and more - 2014/11/01

This week, we find out how Giant Tortoises came back from near extinction; how early South Americans got high; why the Earth's magnetic field is about to flip out; how a virus invades from the past; and we mourn the passing of the Passenger Pigeon.

Theme music bed copyright Raphaël Gluckstein, Creative Commons License by-nc-nd-2.0

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