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As It Happens When Robert Adolph Boehm died on Oct. 6 at age 74, his son decided to honour his memory by writing an obituary as chaotic, irreverent and expletive-laden as his father was in life.  ‘Any time I remember him, he was always joking around,’ Charles Boehm says ofContinue Reading

As It Happens At any moment, journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi could be rounded up and thrown back in jail for their work that helped spark a massive protest movement in Iran. Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi had their sentences reduced, but advocates say it’s not enough Sheena GoodyearContinue Reading

As It Happens Christina Ernst of Chicago designed a functioning version of the rodent from the Pixar classic Ratatouille. Christina Ernst’s 3D-printed rat moves its arms to look like it’s puppeteering her while she cooks Philip Drost · CBC Radio · Posted: Oct 15, 2024 4:20 PM EDT | LastContinue Reading

As It Happens What’s as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist. But fear not, it’s been extinct for more 300 million years.Continue Reading

As It Happens6:30Sammy Basso, longest survivor of rapid aging disease, dies at 28 Sammy Basso lived longer than anyone else with his disease, but his death at the age 28 still came as a shock to those who knew and loved him. “We all knew that Sammy had a terrible circumstanceContinue Reading

As It Happens Two male flamingos at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park recently started acting as if they were incubating an egg together, taking turns sitting on an empty nest. So staff gave them a real egg to hatch. The pair made their desire to start a family knownContinue Reading

As It Happens It’s far from typical for a camel to sport shoes around the yard, but then again, it’s far from typical for a camel to be trotting around the United Kingdom. So when cobbler Stuart Moss got a call from a woman named Lady Chichester about making aContinue Reading

As It Happens Despite their reputation as loners, it turns out octopuses will happily hunt in groups with other species — as long as everyone knows who’s boss.  New study explores social dynamics of group hunting along shallow reefs Sheena Goodyear · CBC Radio · Posted: Sep 25, 2024 6:08Continue Reading

As It Happens Toronto conservation photographer Patricia Homonylo won the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year award for a “beautiful and tragic” image that shows the massive scale of deadly bird-window collisions in the city. ‘I want people to be shocked by this image,’ says 2024 Bird Photographer of theContinue Reading