Todd Bookman
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A digital reboot of humanities at U of Penn
The University of Pennsylvania is rebooting one of its most tradition-bound departments. The recently announced Price Lab for the ...
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Predicting the sick through personal trails of health data
How Independence Blue Cross is using algorithms to better target care. The first thing out of John Iovine’s mouth is a ...
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ListenNew Jersey high court backs denial of Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled legal immigrants who have been living in the state for fewer than five years can be excluded from ...
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Eyes wide shut: Are we doing enough to spot incoming asteroids?
A privately funded space telescope would scan the solar system for rocks that could cause the next mass extinction event on Earth. ...
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ListenCode for Philly stages hackathon to mine, refine election data for voters
The City of Philadelphia is releasing a number of election-related databases, just in time for a weekend hackathon put on by the group Co ...
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Like chocolate and beauty, good ads light up your brain
New research explores how the body reacts to successful commercials. Thirty seconds is an eternity when spent suffering thro ...
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ListenLesson from the Philly Small Business Expo: You can’t shake hands on the internet
The nation’s largest business-to-business trade show made a one-day stop at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Thursday. ...
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55 years later, local cancer discovery still shaping research
The discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome was a crucial link between cancer and genetics. There is a hallway in Fox Chase Cance ...
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ListenEndoscopes linked to bacterial outbreaks made by Pennsylvania company
The FDA says medical devices at the center of serious bacterial outbreaks at hospitals in Philadelphia and California did not have its ap ...
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Pennsylvania considers foray into online gaming
Gamblers in Pennsylvania may soon be able to wager on everything from Texas hold’em to slots, all from a computer or smartphone. ...
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The Philly dentist who helped fix Napoleon III’s bad tooth
How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...
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