Health & Science
Fighting for preservation in a wooded natural history museum
Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages.
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People with dementia entitled to the dignity of voting
As the 2016 Election approaches, the right to vote will be a deciding factor in the outcome. While courts are over-turning racially motiv
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Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth.
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A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m
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It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural
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Listen 9:47Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays
A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.
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This Friday’s full moon is both the Harvest Moon and a penumbral eclipse. Penumbral means that the moon passes through the outer sh
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Air Date: September 12, 2016
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Teens are known for their one-word answers, and for being moody – but underneath their often grumpy exterior, many of them are very
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Air Date: September 12, 2016
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Back to School; Back to Stress
What do our emerging adults need from us? What is it like to be a teen in today’s world with working parents, blended families, emp
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Air Date: September 12, 2016
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Across the country, parents have gotten in trouble with the law for letting their children walk home from a park or from school by themse
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Air Date: September 5, 2016
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This is what I’m doing while you are asleep
I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy
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Faster than a speeding bullet!
It turns out those lazy dog days of summer aren’t so lazy after all! Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the rotations and re
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Air Date: August 29, 2016
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A trip to the zoo with Ed Yong reveals an entire invisible world
Atlantic science writer Ed Yong can’t look at an eleph
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This week: Scientists have discovered another solar system member. Niku, a chunk of ice 124 miles in diameter, has been discovered out b
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Air Date: August 22, 2016
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