Health & Science
It’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight
In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...
8 years ago
ListenWhy we should pay for science that sounds silly
A biologist says her research on dolphin sex is worth public investment. A whole bunch of dolphin clitorises are laid out on a tab ...
8 years ago
ListenUnder the bridge, a world of pain not so far from any of us
The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...
8 years ago
The Blanco reflector telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile has detected a ‘distant dwarf’ planet observers are calling “De ...
Air Date: April 24, 2017
Listen 00:07:24Sunoco’s Mariner East 1 pipeline leaked ethane and propane in Berks County, records show
8 years ago
Guests: Emily Dreyfuss, Mary Anne Franks Facebook Live is intended to provide a way to send video of your life and exper ...
Air Date: April 20, 2017
Listen 00:49:29Regulators to seek ways of boosting natural gas service in rural communities
8 years ago
Science takes center stage Saturday, April 22 in marches planned across the country. Philadelphia will host its own local science march f ...
Air Date: April 17, 2017
Listen 00:05:26Should scientists be activists?
Guests: James Hansen, Robert Young Scientists, researchers, and lobbyists are planning a March for Science on Apr ...
Air Date: April 14, 2017
Listen 00:49:28What should fuel America? Wind? Sun? Cow dung? We’re having a power struggle over that – it’s political, but it’s ...
Air Date: April 13, 2017
Listen 49:20“Deaths of despair”; then, O’Reilly’s troubles
Guests: Angus Deaton, Anne Case, David Folkenflik For most western countries, mortality rates have been in declin ...
Air Date: April 13, 2017
Listen 00:49:28Ever since Pluto was demoted from the pantheon of planets, efforts have intensified to designate a replacemen ...
Air Date: April 11, 2017
Listen 00:06:21Are you avoiding looking at yourself in a mirror? No longer comfortable going to the pool – or maybe pl ...
Air Date: April 10, 2017
Listen 00:03:28Will we ever get health care reform right?
The ill-conceived replacements for Obamacare would have left some 14 million Americans without health insurance and have an unh ...
8 years ago
FERC says PennEast pipeline would have ‘less than significant’ environmental impact
8 years ago
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