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 A Starbucks customer multitasks. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

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 ...

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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 ...

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Parker Kitterman rehearses with the choir at Christ Church. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Requiem 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 ...

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Making 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

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 Philadelphia mayoral candidates Melissa Murray Bailey and Jim Kenney debate Monday night at Temple University. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philly 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 ...

10 years ago

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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 ...

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Voices in the Family

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

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US 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 ...

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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 ...

10 years ago

Voices in the Family

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

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 Republican mayoral candidate Melissa Murray Bailey, second from left, says politicians are ignoring gun violence in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/NewsWorks)

Bailey, 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 ...

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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 ...

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Wolf formally endorses Kenney for mayor

File this one under: Huh? That didn’t already happen?  Gov. Tom Wolf formal ...

10 years ago

 Jim Foster is running for Philadelphia mayor as an independent. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

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 ...

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