
The Pulse Archive
An intimate look at the modern female alcoholic
Ann Dowsett Johnston shares her personal experience with alcoholism in her book “Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alc ...
11 years ago
ListenWhy alcohol marketing targeting women has public health researchers concerned
The liquor cabinet in David Jernigan’s office is fully stocked—mostly with flavored, fruity, carbonated and pink-labeled–ad ...
11 years ago
ListenBedside manner 101 for Drexel med students
Med students learn biology, chemistry, and physiology, but what about bedside manner? In a modern medical education, there are exams for ...
11 years ago
ListenFrom near extinction to internet sensation: the remarkable comeback of Pennsylvania’s bald eagles
A look at the budding bald eagle obsession in Pennsylvania. For decades, Pennsylvania’s bald eagles and those around the co ...
11 years ago
ListenDealing with mom’s baggage after decades of hoarding
One woman shares her story of cleaning up years’ worth of newspaper clippings, cassette tapes and other memories from her mother ...
11 years ago
ListenTemple scientists hit Gulf of Mexico to explore human-generated deep-sea acidification
Temple University scientists are embarking on a three-week cruise to search for clues on ocean acidification and its impact on deepwater ...
11 years ago
ListenGerms in space! NASA launches WHYY microbe to observe in microgravity
A microbe collected at WHYY was one of 48 samples recently sent to the International Space Station to test how microbes grow in space.&nb ...
11 years ago
ListenHow much sleep is enough? Researchers will evaluate national guidelines
What’s the right amount of sleep, where we feel rested, good, and our brains function at their best? A group of researchers is goin ...
11 years ago
A happy marriage, children, a good life…then illness changes everything. Sixty-five million Americans care for an ill or elderly lo ...
Air Date: April 18, 2014
ListenA UD green chemist turns chicken feathers, soybeans into renewable building material
In this edition of So, What Do You Do?, Shoshana Martyniak asks UD’s Richard Wool how he makes vegan leather out of chicken feather ...
11 years ago
ListenResearchers replace guidelines with fables, to test doctors’ memories
Can person-to-person storytelling help doctors remember key information? Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recentl ...
11 years ago
ListenDispatch from a Philly pharma conference
A pharma conference, eyeforpharma 2014, was in Philly this week, ...
11 years ago
ListenCaring for caregivers when their lives feel ‘a bit like war’
A look at the challenges of caregiving and the ways in which we can help those providing care for a loved one. Every year, 6 ...
11 years ago
ListenMedical questions linger as marijuana legalization proposal hits New Jersey
What do we know about marijuana’s impact on our brains? At the start of the New Year, as a new law went into effect le ...
11 years ago
ListenFrom magic mushrooms to skateboarding physics: A Philadelphia Science Festival preview
Here are the seven events you need to see at this year’s Philadephia Science Festival. ...
11 years ago
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