Health & Science
What if restaurants billed like hospitals?
Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing
...
10 years ago
Listen 5:50
Spring Ahead: Spring…or No Spring
Clocks go forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Day length is now 11h20m with sunrise at 6:32 and sunset at 5
...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
Listen
Julianne Moore received an Oscar for her portrayal of a woman with Alzheimer’s in the movie, Still Alice, but what about d
...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
Listen
WHYY’s Pricecheck: Share your medical bill, make health costs transparent
Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th
...
10 years ago
Busy ramp-up at International Space Station; both Russian and SpaceX Dragon resupply craft made deliveries recently in
...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
Listen
Is there a science to love and trust?
Renowned relationship expert, Dr. John Gottman, joins for the hour to discuss his forty years of research into marital stability. At The
...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
Listen
Calendar offers hints of spring
Fat Tuesday and Ash Wednesday mark the start of Lent, heading toward spring which is now just over 4 weeks away. Yester
...
Air Date: February 17, 2015
Listen
Stepfamilies: What works, what doesn’t
Blended families with children have a lot on their plates. There are roles to define, needs to pay attention to, and loyalties to underst
...
Air Date: February 16, 2015
Listen
Any parent with a teenager can tell you that their child’s adolescent years can be confusing, anxiety-ridden, tumultuous. Even the
...
Air Date: February 9, 2015
Listen
A perfect pair for Valentine’s Day
Head out of doors in the evening on Valentine’s Day to observe “a perfect pair” — Venus and Mar
...
Air Date: February 9, 2015
Listen
Asylum for the severely mentally ill
Forty years ago, we thought closing psychiatric hospitals was the humane action. But was it? In a
...
Air Date: February 2, 2015
Listen 52:16
The oldest planets ever discovered in our Milky Way have been around 11.2 billion years! Kepler 444 has identified five
...
Air Date: February 2, 2015
Listen
Next Monday (2/2) is Groundhog Day! Halfway through Winter. SpaceX gets another one billion dollars in investments for
...
Air Date: January 26, 2015
Listen
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a pioneer in trauma research and treatment, discusses his latest book, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind
...
Air Date: January 26, 2015
Listen
What are teens learning about Civil Rights in school?
For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast:
According to a
...
Air Date: January 19, 2015
Listen