The Pulse Archive
A city in mourning: Grief in the wake of the Paris attacks
In light of the recent tragic events in the Middle East and Paris, global citizens have been uniting in their shared grief. Many have exp ...
11 years ago
ListenDoes our fear of death govern our reaction to tragedy?
‘It makes us realize we’re going to die, that we could die at any time, and really, that we are not much more enduring than l ...
11 years ago
ListenOutrunning cancer and beating the odds with a positive attitude
In September of 2014, sports medicine physician Michael Ross received a shocking diagnosis: Stage 4 colon cancer. Ross is an avid athlete ...
11 years ago
ListenA healthier drive-thru that serves flu shots, not burgers
It’s that time of year when doctors and nurses start pushing the flu shot, and some patients start pushing back. “I’ll get i ...
11 years ago
ListenAgriculture jobs may be plentiful, but new grads are scarce
Close to 60,000 jobs are set to open up in agriculture, food and natural resource sectors each year for the next five years, according to ...
11 years ago
ListenA modern twist to that old fashioned chemistry set
Any chemist worth her lab coat has a good story of singed eyebrows. “So my brother was two years younger, he was also ...
11 years ago
ListenThink twice before bathing that Thanksgiving bird
Heat at the proper temperature is what kills pathogens and makes meat safe to eat. A couple of years ago, food safety experts laun ...
11 years ago
ListenAttention students, principal Maiken Scott here. This week, we’re hopping on the bus and heading to school. We start off early, may ...
Air Date: November 13, 2015
ListenHow much homework should your kids be doing?
Ten minutes per grade, per night, says one expert. “Kindergartners should not be having homework,” exclaims Step ...
11 years ago
ListenHow to encourage kids to find a healthy identity online
Last year, Will Haskell’s high school classmates shut down their school with the power of words. This wasn’t an act of free i ...
11 years ago
ListenYik Yak and cyberbullying brought this high school to a halt
Bullying is as old as the one-room schoolhouse, but technology has changed the frequency and intensity of teasing. The posterchild for th ...
11 years ago
ListenPublic debate muddies the waters in climate change education
The public debate over climate change has worked its way into science classrooms, where scientists say it has no place. The ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Super lice’ are outliving normal treatments, but don’t panic
Head lice have upped their game — recent research confirms that many of them have become resistant to most of the potions we use to kil ...
11 years ago
ListenA new, digital spin on your old school shop class
Goodbye lathes, hello 3D printers. Across the country, a handful of schools are giving their old shop classrooms a major makeover, ...
11 years ago
ListenLet them sleep: Doctors say to start the school day at a ‘healthy’ time
Teens need about eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep every night, but at lots of schools the morning bell rings around 7:2 ...
11 years ago
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![1892_shop_class_at_the_dwight_school_byahfolsom_bostonpubliclibrary This was what shop classes looked like back in 1892 at the Dwight School in Boston. Teaching young people to use tools readied them for a modernizing economy. Today some school administrators are rethinking the shop class and opting to convert them into digital labs to train kids on the tools of the next economy.
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