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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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What are you thankful for this year?
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Health

Tips for finding and expressing gratitude on Thanksgiving

Positive psychology experts Suzie Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski join us to learn about why and how gratitude can improve well-being. Bring on the gratitude attitude.

Air Date: November 26, 2025 12:00 pm

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Science

To bark is divine: The contest that the National Dog Show is not going to televise

Before the National Dog Show taped in Philadelphia, it held an off-book barking contest. Here’s what barking tells us about dogs.

2 months ago

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Science

Federal funding freeze stalls New Jersey beach replenishment projects

The stalled beach nourishment projects come after a new study found that coastal flooding could become the norm in the near future.

2 months ago

Severe flooding hits Palisades Medical Center in Hudson County, N.J.
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Inside Climate News

Sea-level rise accelerates in New Jersey, raising coastal flooding risk, study says

Landmark report forecasts water levels and temperature gain but avoids policy prescriptions.

2 months ago

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The Pulse
Health

What Science Says About How Much Our Food Choices Matter

Ahead of Thanksgiving, we take a look at new nutrition research, and what we should — and shouldn’t — be eating.

Air Date: November 21, 2025

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Health

After 47 years and 16,000 babies, a Bryn Mawr birth center will close its doors early next year

The Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center will stop delivering babies by Feb. 15 and wind down all other services by late March.

2 months ago

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Users on social platforms like Reddit are being accused of using AI to write posts. (Nichole Currie/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

How not to be mistaken for a chatbot

Top signs from researchers that something was written by AI, and how to avoid sounding like a chatbot yourself.

2 months ago

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Health
Billy Penn

‘Not a ‘scale back,’ this is a dismantling of our program’: HIV funding cuts impact vulnerable communities

A flurry of funding cuts are threatening resources for those struggling with HIV.

2 months ago

Hospital building
Health

Pottstown Hospital nurses ‘devastated’ and ‘grieving’ over 131 layoffs, closure of cancer center and ICU

Parent company Tower Health will lay off 131 people at Pottstown Hospital by January and close the facility’s ICU, cancer center and endoscopy suite.

2 months ago

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Science

‘Consequential decision’: PJM electrical grid to decide who pays bill for massive data centers

Delaware and Maryland state lawmakers say ratepayers should not pick up the tab for energy-hungry data centers.

2 months ago

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Inside Climate News

In rooftop solar, advocates see a ‘missed opportunity’ for clean energy in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania lawmakers have been at an impasse on clean energy legislation for years.

2 months ago

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The Pulse
Science

How to 'Engineer' Your Dreams and End Nightmares

Researcher Michelle Carr explores “dream engineering” in her new book “Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind."

Air Date: November 17, 2025

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the Delaware River
Science

Millions of gallons of raw sewage spill into Camden County’s waterways each year

The Cooper and the Delaware rivers often contain fecal bacteria levels that make it unsafe to swim, fish or even kayak in.

2 months ago

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Lily McCausland
Health

Pennsylvanians are scrambling to afford Affordable Care Act health insurance price hikes after no subsidy deal in Congress

About 3 in 4 Pennsylvanians will still qualify for some tax credits, but the amounts will, on average, be smaller. Others face paying for plans at full price.

2 months ago

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Health

‘It’s time for a Heart to Heart’: Philadelphia health department’s new campaign tackles substance use and heart health

The mission of the campaign is to spread educational messaging and conversation points about heart health and what additional factors lead to risk conditions.

2 months ago

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