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Making work work across the generations
Baby Boomers remember the Spencer Tracy Kathryn Hepburn movie Desk Set – their characters clash over a giant computer and its place in ...
Air Date: October 26, 2015
Listen 00:52:31Astronomy Night – Not just for the White House anymore
In collaboration with tonight’s White House Star Party, Philadelphia is sponsoring an observing event this evening at Thomas Paine ...
Air Date: October 19, 2015
Listen 00:07:17A newly discovered earth-like planet a mere 21 light years away zips around it’s orange dwarf sun in a mere three days. Kepler 452b ...
Air Date: October 12, 2015
Listen 00:07:31A look at efforts to, and benefits of, limiting light pollution. Plus, a listing of treats to be seen in the night sky this week. ...
Air Date: October 5, 2015
Listen 00:07:39From Refugee to Refuge: Cultivating Compassion
We see disaster stories on the news all the time. Whether it is a fire in California, or a tsunami halfway across the world, it can make ...
Air Date: October 5, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Scientists are now certain that the 313 mile diameter moon of Saturn, Enceladus, has a liquid water ocean that completely envelops its ro ...
Air Date: September 28, 2015
Listen 00:04:20Teenage sexuality in today’s world
We humans are sexual beings; and like it or not so are our children. How do we deal with our own feelings abo ...
Air Date: September 28, 2015
ListenDon’t Miss the Harvest Moon Eclipse
Autumn officially arrives Wednesday; at 4:21 am, Earth arrives at that point in its orbit where the rotational axis is in a position that ...
Air Date: September 21, 2015
Listen 00:07:44This is the last week of summer. Autumn arrives next Wednesday. NASA’s New Horizons is en route to a 35 mile-wide iceball on ...
Air Date: September 14, 2015
Listen 00:04:32Exploring urban islands: from natural to developed
Islands on Pennsylvania’s waterways are often overlooked, difficult to access or seen as liabilities, but some people are trying to change that.
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ListenFamily relationships, workplace worries, difficult world events – for 30 years, psychologist Dan Gottlieb has helped us navigate our da ...
Air Date: September 14, 2015
Listen 00:52:16New Jersey inventor unveils ‘affordable’ hydrogen-solar home
A New Jersey inventor unveiled Friday what he is calling the first fully-permitted and affordable house powered by solar and hydrogen in ...
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ListenItty Bitty Black Hole Discovered
Along with the great visibility of Venus and Mars in the pre-dawn sky and Saturn in the evening, the big event this week is something we ...
Air Date: September 8, 2015
Listen 00:05:3520 planets beyond our solar system need names. . . . and the public is invited to give its thumbs-up or down to proposals. Results will b ...
Air Date: August 31, 2015
Listen 00:08:15On August 27th , Mars will appear as large as the full moon. Don’t believe this hoax; It could happen BUT if it does, we have a lot ...
Air Date: August 24, 2015
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