The Pulse Episode Archive
Air Date: March 25, 2022
Listen 49:05Air Date: March 18, 2022
Listen 49:12Air Date: March 11, 2022
Listen 49:04How one man savored the silence pandemic lockdown brought
Noises can be painfully loud for people with hyperacusis, a rare hearing condition. When the March 2020 shutdown quieted the environment, less sound meant less suffering.
2 years ago
Listen 6:47Air Date: March 4, 2022
Listen 49:14Air Date: February 25, 2022
Listen 47:43How Science is Changing Sports
Air Date: February 18, 2022
Listen 48:55Air Date: February 11, 2022
Listen 48:50How 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.
2 years ago
Listen 6:21How a glitch on a dating app brought one couple together
Tinder told this couple they were less than a mile away and sparked an intercontinental romance.
2 years ago
Listen 6:38Air Date: February 4, 2022
Listen 49:09Does the feedback in creative writing workshops make for better writing?
2 years ago
Listen 12:06Air Date: January 28, 2022
Listen 49:36‘Too sick to rest’: How long COVID helped one doctor learn to slow down
For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic. But she learned an important lesson about the need to slow down.
2 years ago
Listen 19:20Air Date: January 21, 2022
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