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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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What’s a planet?

As more and more planets are being discovered, it’s not a bad idea to come to a consensus on answering the question, “What ...

Air Date: February 27, 2017

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the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system
Radio Times
Science

The pinelands pipeline, exoplanets, and the Oscars

Guests: Joe Hernandez, Eric Jensen, Hillary Busis First up on today’s show: New Jersey green-lit a natural gas ...

Air Date: February 27, 2017

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This is what depression feels like

I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...

10 years ago

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Speak Easy
Health

Women’s emotional labor on your behalf comes with a cost

I have opened my mind and my heart and given my time to others to unload their burdens on me despite my own turmoil and trauma, because I thought it was my duty as a woman.

10 years ago

 Ross Lockwood on top of a volcano in Hawaii, where he simulated living on mars for months. (Courtesy of Casey Stedmen)
The Pulse
Science

An aspiring astronaut’s life on fake Mars

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

10 years ago

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an exoplanet
Skytalk
Science

Exoplanets in the neighborhood

The twin 10m Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea in Hawaii have identified 100 more exoplanet candidates. On ...

Air Date: February 20, 2017

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The Pulse
Science

The Brain

Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...

Air Date: February 17, 2017

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Suzana Herculano-Houzel dissolved these bird brains into
The Pulse
Health

One scientist is creating ‘brain soup’ to calculate brain power

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

10 years ago

Rebecca, Jeremy, and their son, Noah. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

For this couple, starting a family turned into planning brain surgery

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...

10 years ago

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Mars
Skytalk
Science

Mystery on Mars

We celebrate two giant birth anniversaries this week: Wednesday is the 453rd anniversary of Galileo and Sunday is the 544th anniversary o ...

Air Date: February 13, 2017

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 Justin Wood, who has Type 1 diabetes, tested an experimental artificial pancreas. (Alan Yu/ WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Artificial pancreas could mean “freedom” for diabetic patients

For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care.  About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...

10 years ago

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A starling murmuration over Atlantic County Utilities Authority in New Jersey. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Synchronized defense: How animals move as one to avoid predators

When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.

10 years ago

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The Hinrichs family, photographed almost a year after Kurt's stroke. (Courtesy of Kurt Hinrichs)
The Pulse
Health

New procedure leads to miraculous recoveries in stroke patients

On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...

10 years ago

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The Pulse
Health

How electroconvulsive therapy’s troubled past has colored its modern use

Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...

10 years ago

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The Pulse
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Listening to the brain to reveal damage and disease

Researchers are studying the way the brain processes sound to better understand – possibly even diagnose – concussions. < ...

10 years ago

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