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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

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Get 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

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The Mysteries of Love

If 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

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How 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.

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How 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.

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Thank You for Your Feedback

From 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

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Does the feedback in creative writing workshops make for better writing?

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Health

Chasing Sleep

Sleep — 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

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‘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

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Health

A 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

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Unusual Pets

Americans 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

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Health

How 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

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Health

The Generosity Spectrum

When 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

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How informal adoptions became a mainstay of African American family life

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6 months ago

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Talking Therapy

The 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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