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Quirks & Quarks for April 19, 2014

This week, we discover the most Earthlike planet; how male black widow spiders choose females least likely to eat them; how vertebrates went green and became herbivores; how a NASA probe sniffed air on the Moon; how ancient farmers became couch potatoes; and how a GMO tree might produce greener fuel.
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Quirks and Quarks52:32The Goldilocks Planet, plus Why Male Black Widow Spiders Like Their Females Chaste and Well Fed; How the First Herbivores Learned to Love Their Vegetables, and more - 2014/04/19

This week, we discover the most Earthlike planet; how male black widow spiders choose females least likely to eat them; how vertebrates went green and became herbivores; how a NASA probe sniffed air on the Moon; how ancient farmers became couch potatoes; and how a GMO tree might produce greener fuel.

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

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