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Dr. Michael Ross
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Outrunning cancer and beating the odds with a positive attitude

In September of 2014, sports medicine physician Michael Ross received a shocking diagnosis: Stage 4 colon cancer. Ross is an avid athlete ...

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During two Saturdays in October
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A healthier drive-thru that serves flu shots, not burgers

It’s that time of year when doctors and nurses start pushing the flu shot, and some patients start pushing back. “I’ll get i ...

10 years ago

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Students at Colorado State University care for plants in a greenhouse on campus in Fort Collins
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Agriculture jobs may be plentiful, but new grads are scarce

Close to 60,000 jobs are set to open up in agriculture, food and natural resource sectors each year for the next five years, according to ...

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 Vassili Philippov is trying to revolutionize the chemistry set. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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A modern twist to that old fashioned chemistry set

Any chemist worth her lab coat has a good story of singed eyebrows.  “So my brother was two years younger, he was also ...

10 years ago

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Think twice before bathing that Thanksgiving bird

Heat at the proper temperature is what kills pathogens and makes meat safe to eat. A couple of years ago, food safety experts laun ...

10 years ago

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 Let's head to school! (Illustration by Tanine Daryoush)
The Pulse

The Pulse Goes To School

Attention students, principal Maiken Scott here. This week, we’re hopping on the bus and heading to school. We start off early, may ...

Air Date: November 13, 2015

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If teachers are assigning homework to teach kids new concepts
The Pulse

How much homework should your kids be doing?

Ten minutes per grade, per night, says one expert.  “Kindergartners should not be having homework,” exclaims Step ...

10 years ago

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How to encourage kids to find a healthy identity online

Last year, Will Haskell’s high school classmates shut down their school with the power of words. This wasn’t an act of free i ...

10 years ago

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The Pulse

Yik Yak and cyberbullying brought this high school to a halt

Bullying is as old as the one-room schoolhouse, but technology has changed the frequency and intensity of teasing. The posterchild for th ...

10 years ago

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When trying to teach students about climate change
The Pulse

Public debate muddies the waters in climate change education

The public debate over climate change has worked its way into science classrooms, where scientists say it has no place.  The ...

10 years ago

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Ilene and Ed Steinberg treat lice cases throughout the Philadelphia region. (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
The Pulse

‘Super lice’ are outliving normal treatments, but don’t panic

Head lice have upped their game — recent research confirms that many of them have become resistant to most of the potions we use to kil ...

10 years ago

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This was what shop classes looked like back in 1892 at the Dwight School in Boston. Teaching young people to use tools readied them for a modernizing economy. Today some school administrators are rethinking the shop class and opting to convert them into digital labs to train kids on the tools of the next economy. 
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The Pulse

A new, digital spin on your old school shop class

Goodbye lathes, hello 3D printers. Across the country, a handful of schools are giving their old shop classrooms a major makeover, ...

10 years ago

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The Pulse

Let them sleep: Doctors say to start the school day at a ‘healthy’ time

Teens need about eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep every night, but at lots of schools the morning bell rings around 7:2 ...

10 years ago

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 Renee Baker after facial feminization surgery. (Photo courtesy of Renee Baker)
The Pulse

Work with what you’ve got

A paramedic making house calls, a surgeon making faces more feminine, and women in Nashville writing songs of their assaults — on this ...

Air Date: November 6, 2015

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Penn neurosurgeon marks 1,000th deep brain surgery

After 1,000 deep brain stimulation surgeries, a surgeon says he’s at his best when extreme focus is necessary. Those who suf ...

10 years ago

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