
The Pulse Archive
How Science is Changing Sports
Science is constantly propelling athletes to run faster, jump higher, push harder, and break records. Scientific advances have become suc ...
Air Date: February 18, 2022
Listen 48:55Get angry, and use it? When emotion helps us win
When the margin of victory is slim, elite athletes look to harness the power of emotions
4 months ago
Listen 9:30If there’s one thing humans can’t get enough of, it’s love. The spark of a first kiss, the warm glow of a happy couple — even if ...
Air 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.
5 months 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.
5 months ago
Listen 6:38From Amazon to Angie’s List, Google, Facebook, and Yelp, we live in a world driven by feedback. In the best of circumstances, honest cr ...
Air Date: February 4, 2022
Listen 49:09Does the feedback in creative writing workshops make for better writing?
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
5 months ago
Listen 12:06Sleep — we all need it, but most people aren’t getting enough of it. Ideally, we spend about a third of our lives asleep. When we’r ...
Air 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.
5 months ago
Listen 19:20A physiotherapist traveled the world studying sleep, and says most of us do it wrong
Lose the pillow, and while you're at it, maybe the mattress too. Michael Tetley's 20 year old paper argues for nature-informed sleep positions to eliminate pain.
5 months ago
Listen 15:59Americans love their pets — as many as seven out of 10 households are home to cats, dogs, birds… or more unusual animal choices. ...
Air 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.
5 months ago
Listen 11:03When it comes to generosity, there’s a wide spectrum in terms of how far we’ll go for others. There’s buy-your-friends-dinner gener ...
Air Date: January 14, 2022
Listen 45:27How informal adoptions became a mainstay of African American family life
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
6 months ago
Listen 9:47The new year often feels like a good time to make a fresh start, to tackle some issue that’s giving you grief — eating habits, work-l ...
Air Date: January 7, 2022
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