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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Lifestyle

A Boy Scout wears an Eagle Scout neckerchief
NPR
Kids
National

The Boy Scouts of America will increase their membership fees by more than 80%

Starting Jan. 1, it will cost more money to be a Boy Scout.

6 years ago

Organizers, active in the suburban cycling community, discuss their grassroots projects during a panel at the Philly Bike Expo on Saturday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Pennsylvania
Sports
Transportation

At Philly Bike Expo, a look at how women led the biking movement in the suburbs

When the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia was organizing a suburban bike advocacy panel, it was made clear that most of the efforts were made by women.

6 years ago

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Sports
Sustainability
Transportation
Billy Penn

Bike from NYC to Philly and help create a ‘greenway’ along the East Coast

Registration for the two-day trip is now open.

6 years ago

FILE - In this July 25, 1996 file photo, Jim 'Mattress Mack' McIngvale listens during a press conference at the the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce building in Atlanta. Jim McIngvale, a mattress store owner from Houston who calls himself 'Mattress Mack,' plans to bet at least $1.5 million on the Astros in New Jersey on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. (Richard Carson/Houston Chronicle via AP)
New Jersey
Sports

Texas mattress mogul bets $5M in N.J. to cover World Series promotion

Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is offering customers a full rebate on mattresses over $3,000 if the Astros win. He doesn’t have insurance.

6 years ago

Gail Collins (cred. Nina Subin)
Radio Times
Aging
Gender

Gail Collins on women and aging

New York Times columnist Gail Collins joins Marty to talk about her new book, "No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History."

Air Date: October 30, 2019 10:00 am

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Evil Genius is going retro with its new seltzer line. (Instagram/@Evilgeniusseltzer)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

This Philly-made hard soda tastes like ’90s innocence x millennial angst

Evil Genius is going retro with its new seltzer line.

6 years ago

If you get to look at dogs and hug them every day, you just might live longer than people who don't have to clean animal hair off their clothes, according to a pair of studies out this month.
(R A Kearton/Getty Images)
NPR
Aging
Behavioral Health

Dog people live longer. But why?

Hugging a dog is one life's greatest joys. Getting to see fur on four legs and a wagging tail is like experiencing a love drug — quite literally.

6 years ago

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, members of Amazon indigenous populations walk during a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession from St. Angelo Castle to the Vatican. In foreground is a wooden statue portraying a naked pregnant woman. (Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
International
Religion

Pope’s Amazon synod proposes married priests, female leaders

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal.

6 years ago

Pumpkin donut at Federal Donuts and pumpkin curry at Circles Thai are just two of the options for orange gourd treats this fall. (Layla Jones/Billy Penn)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

10 actually fantastic pumpkin dishes to eat right now in Philly

Including PSL ice cream *and* PSL donuts.

6 years ago

In the forests near the southern Sumatran village of Krui, 48-year-old Marhana climbs up the trees to harvest damar, a resin used in paints and varnishes. These damar trees are part of something called an
NPR
Environment
International
Sustainability

Could this tree be an eco-friendly way to wean Indonesian farmers off palm oil?

Agriculture experts see damar as a sort of anti-palm oil: a model to combat deforestation and climate change. These damar trees are part of something called an "agroforest."

6 years ago

There’s an argument that Philly’s shot-and-beer combo should be its own unit of measurement.(Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Is the Citywide Special one drink or two? A Billy Penn investigation

There’s an argument that Philly’s shot-and-beer combo should be its own unit of measurement.

6 years ago

Markeeta Holmes, 25, of North Philadelphia, takes target practice with a mentor at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia

First ‘mentored deer hunt’ at Philly’s Heinz Refuge draws 30 newbies to the woods

For the first time in its history, the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge is open for an eight-day deer hunt, part of an effort to boost the ranks of hunters in Pa.

6 years ago

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Billy Penn

3 of the world’s hottest sneaker shops are in Philly — and they’re joining forces this weekend

The Bermuda Triangle project raises money for local schools.

6 years ago

DANYA HENNINGER / BILLY PENN
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

10 delicious soups in Philly to seek out this fall

From Korean soondubu to Jewish chicken noodle, culinary comfort awaits.

6 years ago

Writers Daniel Simpson, Ona Gritz, and Anne Kaier (Anne Kaier photo credit Andrea Cipriani Mecchi)
Radio Times
Aging
Home & Family
Poetry
Social Justice

Writers on living with disability

Three writers discuss living with disability, the influence its had on love, life and work,, the stigmas that persist, and the pressing issues facing disabled communities.

Air Date: October 10, 2019 10:00 am

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