The Pulse Archive

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

Diabetes runs is Kristen Cabrera’s family. Her dad, plus seven aunts and uncles have the illness. She gathered them at home in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to talk about it.

Thirty-four-year-old Meghan Adorno says being vegan is about keeping herself healthy, protecting animals, and saving the planet.

On the spectrum from tree hugger to climate-change denier, Americans claim to be “green” — or not — in all sorts of ways.

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

A computer scientist is pushing large video game makers to design games that blind people can enjoy.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

On this episode, we explore one of our most important and amazing human tools. What does neuroscience tell us about how language works, a ...

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Seventeen-year-old Sophia Angelica Delgado Feliciano says for a long time she used emotional distance as a survival tool.

For houses vulnerable to flooding, elevation can be a solution. But how do you raise a home that’s connected to others?

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.