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Books

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow has written the picture book
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Philly children’s book author fills a need with ‘Mommy’s Khimar’

A new children’s book from a Philadelphia author focuses on a mother-daughter bond told by a young girl who delights in wearing an Islamic headscarf.

7 years ago

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Muhammad Zaman, author of the book Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs, in his lab at Boston University.
(Jackie Ricciardi/Boston University)
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Health

Fake and faulty drugs: A problem no one wants to talk about

The World Health Organization also estimates that between 72,000 and 169,000 children may die each year because of substandard or fake antibiotics.

8 years ago

William Birch's paintings capture Philadelphia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (Library Company of Philadelphia)
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Arts & Entertainment

America’s first coffee-table book offers ‘Views of Philadelphia,’ on exhibition now

America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.

8 years ago

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(photo credit/Henry Throop)
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Science

New Horizons: NASA’s mission to Pluto

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Air Date: May 2, 2018 10:00 am

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Kevin Young's 2012 essay collection The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. (Melanie Dunea/CPi)
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Community

Filtering American history through a ‘Brown’ lens

Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.

8 years ago

George Vallianos (left), president of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association, and board member Henry Brann, stand beneath a portrait of the poet at the Nick Virgilio Writers House in Camden.
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Arts & Entertainment

Writers house in Camden honors ‘haiku king’ Nick Virgilio

Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.

8 years ago

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Photos of Mummers from the book
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Arts & Entertainment

Mummers off Broad: New book of photos documents a decade of wenches

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

8 years ago

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Across Europe, laws on fracking vary. In 2016, after years of debate over environmental concerns and economic interests around fracking, Germany banned some forms of it. Environmentalists are calling for a total ban. (Robin Wood/flickr)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

‘The Shale Dilemma’ goes global: Author discusses shale gas development across the world

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran a University of Pittsburgh professor and editor of The Shale Dilemma, sat down for an interview about the topic.

8 years ago

Alvin Irby, founder of Barbershop Books, is on a mission to get kids reading in the barbershop.
(Nickolai Hammer/NPR)
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Community

Turning kids into readers, one barbershop at a time

It's mid-afternoon when Irby walks in, a man on a mission. He needs a trim from his go-to barber, Kenny, but he also wants to check in on his 15 books.

8 years ago

Syrian-Style Haroset, a Passover spread made with apricots and pistachios. (Jennifer Abadi)
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Lifestyle

Move over, brisket. There are fresher foods ‘Too Good To Passover’

Abadi's new cookbook, Too Good To Passover, collects Passover recipes from nearly two dozen countries.

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Min Jin Lee’s “PACHINKO”

MIN JIN LEE’s new novel, PACHINKO, chronicles four generations of ...

Air Date: March 23, 2018 10:00 am

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Former U.S. Deputy Attorney Sally Yates opens the Public Library Association Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Community

In Philly, Sally Yates commends librarians as holders of truth

Acting U.S. attorney general was fired by Trump over stand against travel ban.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Ian Buruma’s “A Tokyo Romance”

  New York Review of Books’ editor IAN BURUMA, knew almost ...

Air Date: March 15, 2018 10:00 am

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Daniel Raimi, author of the newly released book
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact

As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.

8 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Delaware artist Susan Benarcik brings the outdoors in with her unique artwork

During the day Susan Benarcik is an urban gardener, she loves nature and the outdoors, during the winter months she brings both indoors through her artwork.

8 years ago

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