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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Optimizing Brain Performance
The Pulse
Science

This is Your Brain During a Pandemic

Optimizing our brains has become an obsession of the modern world. We meditate, take supplements, read books on productivity — all in t ...

Air Date: April 17, 2020

Listen 48:44
Resisting productivity culture and letting yourself be bored can do a lot for your cognitive health. (Chinnapong/Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Health

Why ‘stillness’ is crucial for your brain during this pandemic

The idea that you should be optimizing your quarantine time is everywhere. But resisting productivity culture and letting yourself be bored is essential to your well-being.

6 years ago

Listen 13:15
Samantha Southall and her 10 1/2-year-old daughter, who fractured her wrist amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy of Samantha Southall)
Health

Coronavirus or not, kids still fall or feel yucky. Do you go to the pediatrician?

Some situations, like broken bones, clearly call for in-person visits. Others are not so obvious. Here’s some advice for parents.

6 years ago

Listen 1:29
Powerback Rehabilitation in Center City Philadelphia. (Google Maps)
Health

A risky but possibly lucrative mix: Nursing homes and COVID-19 patients

Canceled elective procedures mean many facilities are no longer getting short-term residents paid for by Medicare. Medicaid pays less for long-term care.

6 years ago

Temple University’s Liacouras Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Liacouras ‘COVID surge facility’ opens with no patients

The 10,000-seat sports arena was remade into a medical facility to meet the demands of coronavirus surge. It ended its first day open to patients with no beds in use.

6 years ago

A jogger runs past a wall painted with the word
Health

See the curve: Pa. coronavirus daily death count hits new high as spread slows

As the state's daily death rate hits a high, experts are cautiously optimistic that social distancing measures are helping to contain the contagion.

6 years ago

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 28, 1979 file photo, a Pennsylvania state police officer and plant security guards stand outside the closed front gate to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. after the plant was shut down following a partial meltdown. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis)
Science

Pennsylvania raises alarms on transfer of radioactive Three Mile Island reactor

DEP asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to slow down the review of a license transfer due to the coronavirus emergency.

6 years ago

Listen 1:56
The COVID-19 treatment center at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
Health

Coronavirus update: Delaware man dies in prison, was held in coronavirus cellblock

A man in a Delaware prison unit that had a coronavirus outbreak has died. Two coronavirus tests before his death were negative.

6 years ago

An infant grasps volunteer Kathleen Jones' hand in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
Health
Billy Penn

Free diapers in Philly: 10 places mothers can get formula and supplies

A new program to help babies during the pandemic.

6 years ago

A sign is displayed on locked tennis courts in Branch Brook Park in Newark, N.J., Thursday, March 26, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
Health

Coronavirus update: N.J. unemployment climbs, schools will stay shut

New Jersey paid out $336 million in benefits in the last month. And some workers are now getting $600 supplemental payments.

6 years ago

(Provided to Billy Penn)
Health

Coronavirus update: Pa. Gov. rejects GOP efforts to adjust stay-at-home orders

Governor Tom Wolf is planning to veto two proposed bills that would allow more Pennsylvanians to return to work during the coronavirus pandemic.

6 years ago

(Robert Inglis / The Daily Item)
Health
Spotlight PA

Employees at Pa.’s ‘life-sustaining’ businesses question if their work is worth the risk

Over the course of the last month, dozens of people from all corners of Pennsylvania have contacted Spotlight PA to question a business’ decision to remain open

6 years ago

Facebook says it has removed
NPR
Health

Did you fall for a coronavirus hoax? Facebook will let you know

The social network is expanding efforts to curb the spread of harmful misinformation about COVID-19 after pressure from an activist group.

6 years ago

Peck's Food owner Theodore Peck touches hands with a customer through window glass while closing his storefront due to the coronavirus outbreak, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Radio Times
Health

Productivity and physical touch during coronavirus

We dive into why you're not feeling very productive right now and why we miss human touch so much.

Air Date: April 16, 2020

Listen 49:15
Staff in protective equipment prepare to test people at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J.
Health

How do quick coronavirus tests work, and will the U.S. have enough?

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimated at least 750,000 rapid point-of-care tests are needed weekly to guide the country out of the pandemic.

6 years ago

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