Elisabeth Perez-Luna

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center helps to heal the sick and injured marine mammals

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Inside the 911 call center for sick, injured marine animals in New Jersey

We meet the people who save dolphins, seals and turtles along the Jersey shore. Let’s say you’re at the Jersey s ...

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Look at that face! You want to upset this little guy? (Of course you don't.) Larry the Bassett hound is shown at the 2012 Basset Waddle Parade in Ocean City, New Jersey. (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)

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6 ways to keep your dog from going nuts during the fireworks

Years of experience and friends’ stories have taught me that, when dogs hear fireworks, they don’t howl out of enjoyment and ...

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Zaye Tete (left) and Marie Nyenabo perform with the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change at Bluebell Triangle Park on Woodland Avenue. (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)

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Liberian Women’s Chorus for Change using music to heal in Southwest Philly

About 15,000 Liberian immigrants live in Philadelphia. Their presence became painfully visible when a fire ripped through several rowhous ...

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'I Thought I saw Liz Taylor and Bob Mitchum in the Backroom of the Commercial,' 1984 (negative); 2008 (print) by Graham Smith, British, born 1947. (Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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Exhibit reviews how our sense of the world changed ‘in a flash’

Do you remember the astounding photo of a bullet piercing an apple? It was a breakthrough in explaining the science behind velocity ...

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The Kulu Mele dance ensemble performs at the 2013 anniversary celebration of the Philadelphia Folklore Project (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)

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Founder moving on after 27 years of keeping Philly folk traditions from slipping away [photos]

Folklorist Debora Kodish founded the Philadelphia Folklore Project 27 years ago as a place where people congregate, exhibit, exchange ide ...

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How one breast oncologist faced her own diagnosis

Dr. Marisa Weiss had been treating breast cancer for over 20 years when she got her own breast cancer diagnosis four years ago. ...

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Environmentalists participate in HighWaterLine, a project by artist Eve Mosher which draws an estimated flood line in chalk through Philadelphia from Richmond and Castor Avenue to Penn Treaty Park. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Vividly illustrating climate change, artist draws a high water line in Philly neighborhoods

In Philadelphia, an artist is launching a down-to-earth means of starting conversations about climate change. The third ...

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Native American poet and activist Suzan Shown Harjo collaborated on the curation of Native American Voices at Penn Museum. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

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Museum of antiquity emphasizes current history of Native Americans [photos]

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words Native American? Is it old movies? Tonto? Protests? Drumming ...

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Artist Diane Burko shows the changing landscape of the Nunatak Glacier in Alaska. (Image courtesy of Diane Burko)

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Documenting climate change through art

Artist and photographer Diane Burko uses art to depict what scientists struggle to explain about climate change. Artist and ...

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Las Cafeteras pictured in Los Angeles, California in 2012 (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision for Pantelion/AP Images)

Las Cafeteras pair Chicano music with the message of equality and justice for Latinos

The young musicians of the group Las Cafeteras, the coffee pots, have combined their experience of being born in LA of immigrant parents ...

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(Photo credit: Gus Chan/The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer)

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One man’s mission to change perceptions of people with schizophrenia

Psychologist Frederick Frese explains how his experience with schizophrenia shaped his passion for helping others with mental illness.&nb ...

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Detail from Pietro da Cortona's 17th century painting

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Under the paints and pigments, the science behind art restoration

How does science play a role in restoring an elaborate 17th Century painting? To restore a painting, it takes a village, a t ...

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