Health
Any parent with a teenager can tell you that their child’s adolescent years can be confusing, anxiety-ridden, tumultuous. Even the ...
Air Date: January 27, 2014
ListenAstronomer John Bochanski talks asteroids, UFO abductions and Phillies baseball
In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’, college administrator Kevin Brown asks astronomer John Bochanski about life on ot ...
12 years ago
ListenWe’re tethered to our smartphones, tablets and computers. We leave our phones in plain sight during bedtime stories, holiday gatherings ...
Air Date: January 13, 2014
ListenThe changing nature of what we remember
Did you ever notice that your memory of an event changes depending on whom you’re with? Do you find yourself negotiating the detai ...
Air Date: January 6, 2014
ListenGiving of ourselves to help others is a win-win activity. It’s deemed generous, kind, and cooperative. It also increases intimacy, co ...
Air Date: December 30, 2013
ListenWhy men won’t go to the doctor, and how women coax them
It’s a perpetual battleground in the war between the sexes. Elisabeth Perez-Luna brings back dispatches from the frontlines. ...
12 years ago
Listen 10:13Two decades ago, Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ prompted changing attitudes toward HIV-AIDS
An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...
12 years ago
Listen 23:35For 40 million Americans, it’s chronic. For 20 to 30 million others it’s seasonal or temporary. Let’s face it, many of us don’t ...
Air Date: December 16, 2013
ListenWe know that children of alcoholics are four times as likely to develop substance abuse problems than other children, and they’re at ri ...
Air Date: December 9, 2013
ListenIn this So, What Do You Do?, a writer talks to an evolutionary geneticist about allele frequencies, technological evolution and ...
12 years ago
ListenPeace psychology: Conversations
The journal American Psychologist has published a special issue on peace ...
Air Date: December 2, 2013
ListenStepfamilies: What works, what doesn’t
Blended families with children have a lot on their plates. There are roles to define, needs to pay attention to, and loyalties to underst ...
Air Date: November 25, 2013
ListenThe crisis of postpartum depression
No woman expects to suffer the physical and emotional devastation of postpartum depression or PPD. Expectant mothers are more inclined t ...
Air Date: November 15, 2013
ListenRomancing the stone: A tale of unbearable pain, a stern wife and Coca Cola
In this week’s edition of Patient Files, we take a look at pain, recovery, remorse and a heavy dose of “I told you so.” ...
12 years ago
ListenUnderstanding concussion, the invisible injury
We’re learning more and more about concussions, their immediate and long-term physical and mental health implications, with an eye on w ...
Air Date: November 11, 2013
Listen