The Pulse Archive
Sometimes you’re faced with a decision in which both of your options have drawbacks. You’re stuck between a rock and a hard p ...
Air Date: January 27, 2017
ListenMexico and U.S. make big plan to save tiny porpoise from extinction
The population of an adorable porpoise called the vaquita has fallen below 60. Scientists, the governments of two countries, and military ...
10 years ago
ListenGenetic tests help parents avoid passing on serious diseases
In 2009, Emily Brooks was newly married and eager to start a family. Then her dad, after years of symptoms, was diagnosed with Hunti ...
10 years ago
ListenAmericans love designer dogs but health problems are common
Buyer beware: consider medical testing before getting a Cockapo ...
10 years ago
ListenA Jehovah’s Witness balances surgery with beliefs
When Audrey Butler dedicated herself to becoming a Jehovah’s Witness seven years ago, she knew she would never accept a blood trans ...
10 years ago
ListenE-cigarettes’ tricky path as harm-reduction tool
Brian Collins tried everything, from patches to gum to going cold turkey. But nothing worked to help him kick his 20-year smoking habit.< ...
10 years ago
ListenWeighing the option of taking an antidepressant during pregnancy
Managing depression with medicine during pregnancy puts women in a bind, but experts say some risks are better than others. On and ...
10 years ago
ListenObama is out. Trump is in. What does it all mean? Some people can’t wait for the Affordable Care Act to go away, while others are s ...
Air Date: January 20, 2017
ListenUnder Trump, tech giants fear a shortage of highly skilled foreign workers
H-1B reform proposals would give priority to guest workers educated in the U.S. You might not know the te ...
10 years ago
ListenHow sex education changed under the Obama administration
Even though teen pregnancy rates are at an all-time low in the United States, the country has still ...
10 years ago
ListenOne coal miner hangs his hard hat on Trump’s promises
Marty Cottingham spent 34 years mining the Blue Creek Coal Seam in Alabama. He retired last October, after the company he worked for, Wal ...
10 years ago
ListenWe have so much information stored in our brains that helps us sort everything and every person we encounter. It’s amazingly helpfu ...
Air Date: January 13, 2017
ListenVera Rubin’s son reflects on how she paved the way for women
His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:47Thinking without a centralized brain: the intelligence of the octopus
An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...
10 years ago
ListenDo high-deductible plans lead to better health care?
Congressman Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, faced his first ...
10 years ago
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