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The Pulse

Handmade Tales

As a materials scientist, Anna Ploszajski was trained t ...

Air Date: December 24, 2021

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A member of Project Recovery combs through the debris of a downed aircraft found in the Pacific Ocean off Palau. (Project Recover)
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History
Military

University of Delaware oceanographer’s quest to find servicemen lost at sea featured in documentary

The film presents the work of Mark Moline and Project Recover, a collaborative trying to repatriate the remains of those still missing from World War II.

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Sam Kean, author of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science. (Little, Brown and Company Publishers)
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Icepick Surgeon: Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Dr. Walter Freeman performed lobotomies with an ice pick through the eye socket....and other stories about doctors who do evil scientific deeds in the name of medicine.

Air Date: December 23, 2021 8:00 am

Listen 49:29
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The Pulse

The Species We Save

Humans have long tried to mitigate their own destructive impact on the planet through conservation efforts. Often, those efforts are atta ...

Air Date: December 17, 2021

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NPR
Environment
National

The exact link between tornadoes and climate change is hard to draw. Here’s why

The link between tornadoes, like the ones that hit Kentucky over the weekend, and climate change isn't as clear as it is for other extreme weather events.

4 years ago

Blue Origin's latest space passengers from left, Laura Shepard Churchley, Dylan Taylor, Michael Strahan, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess, and Evan Dick pose for a photo in front of the booster rocket at the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021
Media
Space
Sports

Michael Strahan flies to space with astronaut’s daughter

The Amazon founder's space company launched the former football player and co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Saturday morning from West Texas.

4 years ago

Saul Griffith is the author of Electrify (photo/Clayton Boyd)
Radio Times
Energy
Environment
Explainers

Electrifying everything: some optimism for climate change

Saul Griffith's hopeful and realistic action plan for fighting climate change while boosting the job market is to electrify, electrify, electrify.

Air Date: December 10, 2021 10:00 am

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The Pulse
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Biology

Amnesia, Opioids and Why We Forget

In 2018, Owen Rivers woke up in a hospital bed after a fentanyl overdose — and could no longer form new memories. It was a terrifying e ...

Air Date: December 10, 2021

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A gas well pad in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State report shows strong natural gas production growth in 2021

After a bruising year in 2020, natural gas production and prices in Pennsylvania are on the rise this year.

4 years ago

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The Pulse

How We Process Information

The human brain has an incredible capacity for processing information, from sensory data, to casual conversations, to everything we hear ...

Air Date: November 26, 2021

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The Pulse
Biology
Technology

Trouble understanding, but your hearing checks out fine. What’s at play?

Researchers are strategizing ways to discover whether auditory processing disorders are at play.

4 years ago

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Why do we love the way autumn smells? It’s not about pumpkin spice

That brisk, crisp, slightly sharp scent we associate with the fall is the smell of leaves, trees, and plants decaying through the season.

4 years ago

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Animals
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At Sylvanaqua Farms, Chris Newman tried to address two big problems with U.S. agriculture. But as some workers saw it, he was a problem too.

4 years ago

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