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Joseph Priestly was an 18th century British chemist, theologian and political theorist who emigrated to America and advised the founding ...

Two weeks of fighting in Gaza Strip, an area twice the size of Washington DC and the world’s most densely populated territory has t ...

Philadelphia-based rock band Huffamoose is playing their first gig in ten years at the World Café Live tonight. Musicians CRAIG ELKINS a ...

MATTHEW ALEXANDER, author of “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogator Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Dead ...

There are roughly a billion motor vehicles in the world. Within twenty years, the number will likely double to two billion. We’ll t ...

As Congress headed back to work yesterday, the Senate still had several seats up in the air. Add to that a worsening economic situation, ...

If you could name the one word that defines the year 2009 what would it be? Later this week, the American Dialect Society will meet in Sa ...

Last week, publishers of a long-awaited Holocaust memoir “The Angel at the Fence” announced that the author had fabricated pa ...

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Can’t wait another second? Neither can WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts. A Leap Second was added at 7 p.m. ...

HENRY ALFORD talks about his new book, “How to Live,” which brings together his research and conversations with old people, f ...

The bad news about the economy – how we got here and what we need to do to revive the economic health of the country. We talk with ...

Despite serious health risks and smoking bans in public spaces, more than 20% of all Americans are smokers. Scientific breakthroughs in r ...

Radio Times open show. ...

(Rebroadcast) We talk about the Vaudeville act, The Cherry Sisters. We talk with writer and director JENNIFER CHILDS and theater critic D ...