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Your email is killing your multitasking productivity
You’re hunkered down at your computer working on a spreadsheet or a meeting outline or a legal brief or poetry. You hit a thicket i ...
9 years ago
Anti-violence group releases rap video for Murray Bailey
Campaign raps are definitely becoming a thing in Philadelphia. Ori Feibush ...
9 years ago
Love thy neighbors — because you can’t divorce them
We knew the neighbors had become true friends when they came to help us say goodbye to the old refrigerator. Here’s the stor ...
9 years ago
ListenRequiem premier expresses bottomless grief of gun violence
Music can speak to the yearnings that grief leaves inside us in a way that words alone cannot. I recently found another reminder of that ...
9 years ago
ListenMaking work work across the generations
Baby Boomers remember the Spencer Tracy Kathryn Hepburn movie Desk Set – their characters clash over a giant computer and its place in ...
Air Date: October 26, 2015
Listen 00:52:31Philly mayoral candidates spar over luring new jobs and expanding port
Philadelphia’s Democratic mayoral nominee Jim Kenney has been careful not to publicly take his party’s 7-to-1 voter registrat ...
9 years ago
Paying mentorship forward by helping students make the right moves
College students need more than career counseling. As young adults, still shaking off adolescence, and facing huge pressures as they ente ...
9 years ago
Raising a Compassionate Child in an Age of Entitlement
Do schools still give grades for good citizenship? Should they? Are we raising children to have too much self-esteem? In an era of compet ...
Air Date: October 19, 2015
Listen 00:52:16US bishop warns of ‘anxiety’ at pope’s family summit
The American archbishop who welcomed Pope Francis to the final rally of his U.S. tour has warned that Francis’ big family summit of ...
9 years ago
Radio Times asks third-party candidates why they’re really running for mayor
WHYY’s Radio Times continued its weekly series of interviews with the Philadelphia mayoral candidates today with Socialist Worker P ...
9 years ago
Finding Yourself in the Physical and Spiritual
Have you ever had a transcendent experience, a moment so overpowering, it becomes difficult to explain? Or perhaps you’ve felt a strong ...
Air Date: October 12, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Bailey, local activists say politicians ignore gun violence in Philly
Standing on the corner of Eighth and Diamond Streets, Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bailey called a press conference Friday ...
9 years ago
Three cheers for a four-day work week!
With the upcoming Columbus Day holiday, some of us are heading into a three-day weekend — at least for those of us who cleave (if only ...
9 years ago
Wolf formally endorses Kenney for mayor
File this one under: Huh? That didn’t already happen? Gov. Tom Wolf formal ...
9 years ago
Radio Times: Foster running for mayor because other independents ‘wimped out’
All five of Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates may not be invited to every debate this fall, but each of them will have a chance to ...
9 years ago