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The Pulse Archive
How one man savored the silence pandemic lockdown brought
Noises can be painfully loud for people with hyperacusis, a rare hearing condition. When the March 2020 shutdown quieted the environment, less sound meant less suffering.
2 years ago
Listen 6:47Air Date: March 4, 2022
Listen 49:14Air Date: February 25, 2022
Listen 47:43How Science is Changing Sports
Air Date: February 18, 2022
Listen 48:55Air Date: February 11, 2022
Listen 48:50How TikTok’s pupil test works, and what it tells us about love and attraction
A TikTok trend that claims to test if you’re really in love may have some real science behind it.
3 years ago
Listen 6:21How a glitch on a dating app brought one couple together
Tinder told this couple they were less than a mile away and sparked an intercontinental romance.
3 years ago
Listen 6:38Air Date: February 4, 2022
Listen 49:09Does the feedback in creative writing workshops make for better writing?
3 years ago
Listen 12:06Air Date: January 28, 2022
Listen 49:36‘Too sick to rest’: How long COVID helped one doctor learn to slow down
For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic. But she learned an important lesson about the need to slow down.
3 years ago
Listen 19:20Air Date: January 21, 2022
Listen 49:15How backyard chickens blur the lines between farm animal and pet
In some cities, like Philadelphia, people run afoul of the law by keeping chickens. But back in the old days, it was the natural order of things.
3 years ago
Listen 11:03Air Date: January 14, 2022
Listen 45:27How informal adoptions became a mainstay of African American family life
3 years ago
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