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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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The joro spider, a large spider native to East Asia, is seen in Johns Creek, Ga., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The spider has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year – a proliferation that has driven some unnerved homeowners indoors and prompted a flood of anxious social media posts
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Beware the joro spider. Scientists say the giant, but harmless, arachnid is spreading

A study says that the palm-sized spider, which has been largely confined to warmer Southeastern states for nearly a decade, could soon colonize regions with colder climates.

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When to Trust Your Intuition

It’s when a dark alleyway makes the hairs stand up on the back of our neck; when a mother just knows that something’s wrong ...

Air Date: March 4, 2022

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Switch to electric buildings or miss climate goals, N.J. advocates say

The analysis calls on the state to step up efforts to transition buildings to electric power and to end heating homes with natural gas and other fossil fuels.

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Landmark UN climate change report: ‘Parts of the planet will become uninhabitable’

The U.N. report warns climate change will likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks.

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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: February 25, 2022

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As wildfires worsen globally, governments are unprepared, UN warns

The western U.S. is already seeing more blazes, and the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50% by the turn of the century.

4 years ago

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How Science is Changing Sports

Science is constantly propelling athletes to run faster, jump higher, push harder, and break records. Scientific advances have become suc ...

Air Date: February 18, 2022

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Drexel Students Jeremy Wortzel and Lena Champlin wrote a children’s book about climate change. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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A West Philly couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’

Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.

4 years ago

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U.S. could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years

A federal report warns that America's coasts will be hit hard by ever faster sea level rise between now and the year 2050.

4 years ago

File photo: A Waymo minivan arrives to pick up passengers for an autonomous vehicle ride, in Mesa, Ariz. Waymo, the Google self-driving vehicle spinoff, is moving to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Trenton receives $5 million grant to make MOVES for residents

The City of Trenton is getting a $5 million grant from the state to begin planning a transit system to help a majority of its residents who either have one car or no car.

4 years ago

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How TikTok’s pupil test works, and what it tells us about love and attraction

A TikTok trend that claims to test if you’re really in love may have some real science behind it.

4 years ago

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Nation’s largest power grid moves to clear logjam of energy projects

If the solar projects held up in the logjam are not cleared, that jeopardizes New Jersey’s own efforts to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

4 years ago

Metal caps marked ''WATER'' are the only evidence of the 400-foot wells beneath the parking lot of the German Society of Pennsylvania on Spring Garden Street. The wells tap the geothermal energy of the earth to heat and cool the society's building. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Geothermal energy lies right beneath our feet. Could Philadelphia tap into it?

Philadelphia’s decarbonization goals run right up against PGW, the gas utility it owns. Some say the solution lies below the city.

4 years ago

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Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds

Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm.

4 years ago

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Delaware
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Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission advances move to harvest female horseshoe crabs

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.

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