The Pulse Episode Archive
When togetherness means home is no safe haven
COVID-19 has ripped through communities with high rates of household crowding. An inside look into how the virus spreads in cramped multigenerational homes.
3 years ago
Listen 19:27Air Date: December 4, 2020
Listen 54:14Air Date: November 27, 2020
Listen 48:47Air Date: November 20, 2020
Listen 49:24With this Thanksgiving comes a sad first for many families: Lost loved ones
COVID-19 has taken hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. already, some very quickly. There will be mourning, and remembering
3 years ago
Listen 7:06Air Date: November 13, 2020
Listen 48:50‘We are not guinea pigs’: Trust issues and a COVID-19 vaccine trial in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation has a death rate from the virus nearly double that of New Jersey. But skepticism about volunteering for Pfizer trial’s runs deep.
3 years ago
Listen 8:13The Quest for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Air Date: November 6, 2020
Listen 51:26‘Nothing’s wrong if it’s funny’: Black comedy taps a longstanding coping tool
Sarcasm, trading insults, in-jokes continue a tradition that began when the first enslaved Africans arrived here back in 1619.
3 years ago
Listen 7:00Air Date: October 30, 2020
Listen 50:21Getting to the basics of humor for people on the autism spectrum
Many don’t perceive jokes that rely on sarcasm and dual meanings. Improv comedy can help with understanding that, and teach other life skills.
3 years ago
Listen 5:07Why we sometimes laugh during inappropriate times
Some people laugh when they want to cry, or cry when they want to laugh. Turns out, there’s a type of emotion regulation at work.
3 years ago
Listen 8:41How bad cartoons helped relieve the chronic-disease blues
When my spouse spent 48 weeks on chemo, I got markers and paper lunch bags, and tried the gallows humor thing.
3 years ago
Listen 5:44Air Date: October 23, 2020
Listen 49:00Air Date: October 16, 2020
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