Health & Science
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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8 years ago
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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8 years ago
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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Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much.
Getting
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8 years ago
What’s really behind our love of spicy food?
At a stylish shop in Brooklyn, a different kind of ‘sommelier’ guides tastings from a row of small bottles lined up on the co
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8 years ago
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Having a positive attitude about aging makes older adults more resilient when faced with stressful situations
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Air Date: August 15, 2016
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SpaceX is planning an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018. NASA will partner with SpaceX providing ‘in-kind’ support so that the
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Air Date: August 15, 2016
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Safe natural gas pipeline, union workers deserve support
Here in Pennsylvania, we are blessed to be sitting on top of one of the largest reserves of natural gas in the world. The shale revolutio
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8 years ago