
The Pulse Archive
Keeping your cool in political arguments means reaching common ground
Here’s how political conversations seem to unfold online these days; either we agree, and all is well, or, if we disagree, things q ...
9 years ago
ListenCommunity and mentorship encourage female dominance in forensics
Unlike most STEM fields, forensic science is dominated by women, not men. And Antoinette Thwaites, a forensic scientist for the City of P ...
9 years ago
ListenA kinder, gentler voting system offers relief from campaign hostility
As more and more Americans seem to be disgusted with the two major political parties, there’s a growing call for a viable third par ...
9 years ago
ListenOne in four physicians didn’t vote in all of the last three presidential elections. So, what’s their excuse? People in ...
9 years ago
ListenA century after the first birth control clinic opened, controversy remains
Margaret Sanger opened a storefront clinic in 1916, sparking the battleground over women’s reproductive rights. Brownsville, ...
9 years ago
ListenThis rebroadcast show is all about the human body – more specifically, what happens to us after weR ...
Air Date: October 27, 2016
Listen 50:33The anthropocene: Geologists take up the question of a new epoch
Hermann Pfefferkorn’s office, at the University of Pennsylvania, spills across a large, well-lit room that seems to have closed in on i ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat can a whale’s baleen tell us about climate change?
Whale baleen is one of the most remarkable anatomical traits Northern Arizona University Endocrinologist Kathleen Hunt has ever worked wi ...
9 years ago
ListenHow climate change is affecting space race
Part of NASA’s mission is to find new real estate, so to speak, in space – places for humans to eventually colonize and sprea ...
9 years ago
ListenSinging tunnels? Jam session between man and architecture
With the help of some microphones, speakers, and computers, five pedestrian tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden can harmonize with humans in the ...
9 years ago
ListenWe interact with our world every single day, but it’s not often that we take a step back and think about how those tiny interaction ...
Air Date: October 21, 2016
ListenGerrick Reidenbach can’t smell his cat
A skateboarding slam left Gerrick without a sense of smell, and his memories of the scents he loved are fading. At one time or ano ...
9 years ago
ListenHow one symbol has led to truckloads of trash and confusion
It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design co ...
9 years ago
ListenNow for our feature presentation: we’re going to explore the science of movie magic as seen on the big screen and behind the scenes ...
Air Date: October 14, 2016
Listen 51:39Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
9 years ago
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