
The Pulse Archive
The science of forecasting wintry weather
Everybody loves talking about the weather. But how do we know what numbers to fret about in the first place? Remember ...
12 years ago
ListenWhy are no two snowflakes the same?
An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appr ...
12 years ago
ListenHow Walgreens is predicting your cold and flu spending patterns
Using algorithms to predict when each cold and flu season will hit and what medicines customers will buy. It’s a ...
12 years ago
ListenCreating a new use for old weather logs
How ships’ weather records, dating back 250 years, are helping to predict future weather patterns. You’ve probab ...
12 years ago
ListenHow did the Farmers’ Almanac ‘nail’ this winter’s forecast? That’s a secret
With secret formulas, a weather “prognosticator” and nearly 200 years of history, the Farmers’ Almanac has its own take ...
12 years ago
ListenMalacologist Amanda Lawless talks marauding African land snails and other mollusks
In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’ segment, public health student Teagan Keating asks Amanda Lawless about her career ...
12 years ago
ListenPhase I study finds ‘gene editing’ aimed at making patients’ cells resistant to HIV to be safe
For decades, HIV has outpaced the scientists trying to eradicate it, often morphing and hiding deep in patients’ bodies. Researcher ...
12 years ago
ListenMaking percussion instruments out of pill bottles, and other stories of living with cystic fibrosis
Philadelphia musician and recording store owner Brian McTear talks about ‘chasing life expectancy’ with cystic fibrosis. ...
12 years ago
ListenPredicting weather: mostly true with a chance of error
Tom Thunstrom of Phillyweather.net tells us what we can – and can’t – predict when it comes to weather. No ...
12 years ago
ListenWe often think of trauma as the result of a singular negative experience, but many, who spend their entire lives in environments plagued ...
Air Date: February 28, 2014
ListenChilean ‘chicken butt’ researchers make birds walk like dinosaurs
Guess what? Chicken butt!! Research involving chicken butts recently got the attention of regular Pulse contributor ...
12 years ago
ListenLife after losing, and regaining, a sense of smell
Mount Airy resident Anndee Hochman is smelling the Friday-night challah again after living for years without her sense of smell. B ...
12 years ago
ListenEmbracing and challenging the true storytellers in adults with autism
We visit a writing workshop in Norristown, Pa., that guides adults with autism through the playwriting process. The lobby of ...
12 years ago
ListenAsking a key question to understand puzzling behaviors
‘Trauma-informed care’ encourages mental health providers to look at behaviors as clues – as connecting dots to a bigge ...
12 years ago
ListenCan researchers re-ignite someone’s sense of smell through nasal stem cells?
Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center are searching for new ways to treat smell-loss. Researchers at the Monell C ...
12 years ago
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