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In season 1 episode 5 of The Flintstones, Fred gets conked on the head (as pictured here) and it completely changes his personality. A second conk later on reverses it. (Screen grab of The Flintstones)
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Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?

Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...

9 years ago

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My 9-year-old has insomnia; here’s what I learned

Our 9-year-old son has recently been battling insomnia, lying awake each night until 10 or 11 p.m. The rare nights he falls asleep easily ...

9 years ago

Screenshot of Rita Hayworth as Gilda in the trailer for the film Gilda. (<a href=Photo via Columbia Pictures)" title="smoke" width="1" height="1"/>
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Parents, researchers fight to stamp out smoking on the big screen

Some kid movies are kicking the smoking habit. When a movie hero strikes a match and lights a cigarette, it means something. ...

9 years ago

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Sarita Kimble holds an audio description device at the Ritz Five movie theater in Philadelphia. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Human voice is key to unlocking movie magic for the blind

There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...

9 years ago

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Reels of film wait to be catalogued in one of the Library of Congress warehouses. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
The Pulse
Science

Digital demands paradigm shift in film archiving

At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...

9 years ago

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a rocket takes off
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Special Delivery!

On October 13 at 9:24 pm, Orbital Sciences will launch from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia, sending 2,400 kilos of supplies ...

Air Date: October 10, 2016

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Elon Musk
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Musk Targets Mars

First, evidence has been discovered supporting a subsurface salt-water ocean at Pluto! It would have the right mass to account for how Pl ...

Air Date: October 3, 2016

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A small quiet waterfall in Duke Farms in Central New Jersey. (Big Stock photo)
Health

Climate change could threaten our drinking water

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9 years ago

 Serenity Baruzzini (Mighty Writers)
Speak Easy
Health

I might have Asperger’s Syndrome, but do I really want to know?

People just don't seem to understand the way I think, so when they can follow my train of thought, it feels like I have superpowers.

9 years ago

The Rosetta satellite
Skytalk
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The Bloom Comes Off The Rosetta

Last Saturday Rosetta completed its final orbit and began its direct descent to the comet’s surface. It should impact on Friday in a re ...

Air Date: September 26, 2016

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autumn leaves
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Falling Forward

First, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss the Autumnal equinox, which is this Thursday at 10:21am. Next stops? Halloween, th ...

Air Date: September 19, 2016

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A lion high up on a pedestal in the Mammal Hall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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Science

Natural History Museums

Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...

Air Date: September 15, 2016

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Emily Graslie of the web series The Brain Scoop. (Courtesy of Tom McNamara of The Field Museum)
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The Brain Scoop and the sloppy business of learning

The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...

9 years ago

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Paleontological fieldwork, Nunavut Territory, Canada. (Courtesy of Ted Daeschler)
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Finders keepers doesn’t apply to fossils and bones

Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...

9 years ago

Fernbank Forest’s tree canopy stretches 156 feet into the air. Many of the trees have been able to live two or three hundred years. (Stephannie Stokes/for WHYY)
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Science

Fighting for preservation in a wooded natural history museum

Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...

9 years ago

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