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The Pulse

The Magic of Energy

Energy fuels our lives in ways that seem almost magical. It can transform darkness into light, cold into warmth, water into ice. Of cours ...

Air Date: August 27, 2021

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The Maurice River in New Jersey.
Environment
New Jersey
Preservation
NJ Spotlight

‘Huge leap forward’ for preservation of Delaware Bay wetlands

Multiple projects are coming together to protect a key habitat for the Cumberland County oyster fleet from erosion and rising seas.

4 years ago

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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The 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: August 25, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
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Outdoors
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

What happened to all the spotted lanternflies? The Philly insect invasion is at a low point

It’s not your imagination — but the bugs aren’t gone. They’re moving north.

4 years ago

After listening to hours of bat pups in the wild, scientists have identified eight characteristics of babbling that are shared by human babies and the greater sac-winged bat. (B.G. Thomson/Science Source)
NPR
Animals
Biology

Bats love to babble — just like humans

The researchers believe that bats and humans both evolved babbling as a precursor to more complex vocal behavior such as singing, or, in the case of people, talking.

4 years ago

North Pond at Sandy Hook.
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors
NJ Spotlight

Rising seas present hidden dangers to Sandy Hook’s ecology, report says

Sea-level rise threatens old-growth maritime forest at the national recreation area, as well as the region’s freshwater.

4 years ago

A closeup of spotted lanternflies on a tree
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors
NJ Spotlight

Summer is at its peak. So is the spotted lanternfly

Following the lanternfly’s arrival to New Jersey, the state’s Department of Agriculture issued a quarantine zone that encompassed eight N.J. counties.

4 years ago

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Delaware
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Outdoors
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Sustainability

How the beautiful, ultra-rare trillium plant was brought to Delaware

WHYY ‘Morning Edition’ host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Mt. Cuba’s Amy Highland about tracking down the plant.

4 years ago

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Electrical workers check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian in China's eastern Jiangsu province. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Sustainability

Computer models of civilization offer routes to ending global warming

As the world's top climate scientists released a report full of warnings this week, they kept insisting that the world still has a chance to avoid the worst effects of climate

4 years ago

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Energy
Environment
Philadelphia

A big power pack with a goal of sustainability in Philadelphia

A new battery storage system could make the Philadelphia Navy Yard more attractive to businesses by stabilizing power costs.

4 years ago

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The Pulse
Mental Health

Changing Appearances

We’ve all heard the saying: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” The problem is that’s not how the world works. Just about everyt ...

Air Date: August 13, 2021

Listen 47:57
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(NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)
NPR
Space

Got plans for Sept. 24, 2182? This big asteroid might, too

A potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu has a 1 in 1,750 chance of hitting Earth between now and the year 2300.

4 years ago

Environment

Group cites PFAS chemical concerns at military sites near Chesapeake Bay

They are known as “forever chemicals” because they do not break down in the environment.

4 years ago

Trees burn after firefighters conducted a firing operation to slow the spread of the Dixie Fire in Plumas County, Calif, on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Dry and windy conditions have led to increased fire activity as firefighters battle the blaze which ignited July 14. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Radio Times
Environment

The new U.N. climate report

The new IPCC report on the climate change says hotter temperatures and extreme weather are now irreversible. What can still be done to fight the climate crisis?

Air Date: August 11, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Climate change: How could NJ be impacted — and how should it respond?

NJ climate expert says ‘the first priority is to prevent additional warming’.

4 years ago

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