
The Pulse Archive
Reading a person’s mind is ‘skill, not magic’
Max Major looks more like a European soccer star than a magician, with his lean, athletic physique and stylish hairdo – somewhere b ...
10 years ago
ListenStill life: Art in the service of science
In the early part of the American nation, science and art were brothers born to the mother of necessity. Charles Wilson Peale was ...
10 years ago
ListenIn a women’s bathroom, doctor learns lesson in creativity
About five years ago, Dr. Travis Baggett was working as a primary care physician at a homeless shelter for people with mental illness. ...
10 years ago
ListenEnergy efficient innovations on display in Paris
Visitors to the climate change talks in Paris learned about cutting-edge, low-carbon tech solutions at a side exhibition called the ̶ ...
10 years ago
ListenNavigating the do’s and don’ts of pregnancy
Some ‘rules’ for expecting women come with wiggle room. There are countless do’s and don’ts to think about ...
10 years ago
ListenGender bias in science, and the bias on that bias
A recent study conducted by a psychologist from Montana State University found that there is a gendered bias towards studies about gender ...
10 years ago
ListenCan you learn to be more creative?
A Wharton professor encourages us to think ‘inside’ the box. First, a definition. “So my definition ...
10 years ago
ListenJersey scientists probe mystery of army ant ‘living’ bridges
In the rainforests of South and Central America, roving colonies of predatory army ants form trails hundreds of meters long, with soldier ...
10 years ago
ListenAnother mass shooting. More violence. This time in San Bernardino, California, where 14 people were killed. You’ve foll ...
Air Date: December 4, 2015
ListenThe ever-growing normalcy of school lockdowns
While law enforcement personnel scoured San Bernardino, California, searching for shooters, young people across that city sheltered in pl ...
10 years ago
ListenHow to have difficult conversations about mass shootings
This week, another mass shooting devastated the country. When the nation engages in another discussion about the gun laws a ...
10 years ago
Listen‘Violence is contagious’: Treating shootings like disease
Could we reduce gun violence using the same methods used in halting epidemics such as AIDS or Ebola? Gary Slutkin is a Chicago epi ...
10 years ago
ListenA unique approach to dementia therapy: bird songs
Scientists are investigating what happens when you bring nature into nursing homes. The Northglenn Heights long-term care fa ...
10 years ago
Listen‘Smart drugs’: from campus culture to the real world
It’s not all that hard to find a college student who is, or who knows someone, taking Ritalin or Adderall. “Yeah, I kn ...
10 years ago
ListenContinuing to smile, despite a failing heart
Linda Jara went to the doctor in December of last year for a simple sinus infection. By Christmas, she was in heart failure. Walki ...
10 years ago
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