The Pulse Archive
Safety or socialization?: School leaders ‘agonize’ over COVID-era back-to-school plans
It takes years for science to migrate into real-life practice. Today, educators are trying to make real-time sense of a disease scientists are learning about on the fly.
4 years ago
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Student showcase: What teenagers are thinking about this upcoming school year
How are kids being impacted by the pandemic? Our high school reporters produced short personal essays on ways that the pandemic has impacted each of their lives.
4 years ago
Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m
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Air Date: August 14, 2020
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How a brain injury turned a teenager from shy to sociable
A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon.
4 years ago
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Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.
4 years ago
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Nurses have been a part of every aspect of care with the coronavirus pandemic — taking care of patients, communicating with families, w
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Air Date: August 7, 2020
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Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to
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Air Date: July 31, 2020
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How Tech is Changing the Way We Talk
Technology isn’t just changing our world — it’s changing the words we use to describe it. Language is evolving at breakneck speed,
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Air Date: July 24, 2020
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Can you actually learn a new language through an app?
Definitely maybe, research suggests. What doesn’t help: conjugation, and odd bits of practice conversation no one ever uses.
4 years ago
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Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th
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Air Date: July 17, 2020
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FOSTA-SESTA was supposed to thwart sex trafficking. Instead, it’s sparked a movement
Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.
4 years ago
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In sharp contrast to abstinence-only education or “Just Say No,” America has been moving toward a public health approach that doesn
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Air Date: July 10, 2020
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One woman’s mission to make sure everyone carries Narcan — including drug dealers
In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.
4 years ago
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Movies may not be real — but in a lot of ways, they’re real to us. Great films help us understand the world, history, and one another
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Air Date: July 3, 2020
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What’s Here to Stay or Gone Forever?
COVID-19 hasn’t just changed the world — it’s transformed the way we live. On a national scale, it has upended politics and flatten
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Air Date: June 26, 2020
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