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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Doctors in Miami found that a man's tattoo expressing his end-of-life wishes was more confusing than helpful.
(Gregory Holt/The New England Journal of Medicine)
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When a tattoo means life or death. Literally.

The tattoo stretched across the man's chest. It said "Do Not Resuscitate." His signature was tattooed at the end.

8 years ago

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Before ‘Roe v. Wade,’ the women of ‘Jane’ provided abortions for the women of Chicago

Ultimately, Roe vs. Wade brought an end to Jane because women then had access to legal abortion providers.

8 years ago

Treated oil and gas wastewater flows into a western Pennsylvania stream. (Avner Vengosh/Duke)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers

Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.

8 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
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Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County

8 years ago

Protesters blocked pipeline construction equipment on the property of The Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic nuns, in Lancaster County in October. On Friday, the nuns asked an appeals court to allow them to make their religious objections to the pipeline in a lower court.  (MARIE CUSICK / STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

8 years ago

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
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International medical travelers a boon to Philadelphia

The Philadelphia region boasts more than 20 universities and colleges, as well as five medical schools and schools of nursing and health care administration.

8 years ago

The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in the evening in Washington
Health

Local specialists echo national concerns over ending behavioral health registry

Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump at the podium
NewsWorks Tonight
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Local addiction specialists still waiting for federal support to trickle down

Elana Gordon, a reporter for WHYY’s The Pulse, joined NewsWorks Tonight to weigh in on the local response to federal action.

8 years ago

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Sita and cub, Bandhavgarh National Park, 1996; from A Wild Life (Aperture, 2017)
The Pulse
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Braving the wild for the perfect shot

Wildlife photographer Nick Nichols remembers a close call with a tigress.

8 years ago

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Elk graze at dawn on reclaimed mine land in Kentucky's designated elk zone. The animals were reintroduced to the state in 1997 and have flourished. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
The Pulse
Science

Returning wild animals to wild-ish places

We reintroduce animals to their native habitat as part of an impulse to re-create “wilderness” — a place untouched by man. The result is more like the feeling of wilderness.

8 years ago

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(Courtesy of Adam Ford)
The Pulse
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In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway

A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.

8 years ago

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Tommy Fisk cuts down a black oak outside Eminence, Missouri on Dec. 14, 2017
The Pulse
Science

Did logging help reclaim Missouri wilderness?

Since the 1950s, a timber company has used conservation-driven logging to balance productive use and wild forests.

8 years ago

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Singer/songwriter Sam Baker (right) sits with 16-year-old Andrew Hart, who suffers from severe depression, and has struggled with homelessness and abuse. He taught himself to play the guitar.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Musician visits Pa. school to help kids find their way beyond trauma

Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante.
Health

Philly targets big pharma in suit over opioid epidemic

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

8 years ago

A mailing from insurer Aetna breached the privacy of thousands of HIV positive members.
NewsWorks Tonight
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Aetna agrees to pay $17M in massive HIV privacy breach

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

8 years ago

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