Explainers
Guest: Lawrence Noble
President Trump recently tweeted the phrase “collusion is not a crime,” in reference to
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Air Date: August 3, 2018 10:40 am
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Korean Peninsula primer / Dow Jones update
Guests: Mark Zandi, Frank Plantan
All eyes will be on the Korean Peninsula beginning Friday, a
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Air Date: February 7, 2018
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The price of the Bitcoin has been skyrocketing lately, with people around the world clamoring to invest in the mysterious digital currenc
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7 years ago
Surveying Pa.’s 11th congressional district, solidly Republican and regions apart
Voters in the northern end feel weirdly separated from their anchor cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.
7 years ago
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Not real news: A look at what didn't happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.
7 years ago
Dear readers, NewsWorks is now WHYY News
On Monday, Oct. 9, we launch the new WHYY.org, and NewsWorks.org becomes WHYY News. Different name, new location, same great reporting — and a beautiful new website.
7 years ago
Guests: Imani Perry, Linda Hirshman, Briahna Joy Gray
Political observers and operatives alike are still piecing
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Air Date: September 7, 2017
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Penn scientists dig up evidence to settle questions about H.H. Holmes — first American serial killer
The museum of the University of Pennsylvania has been investigating the remains of America’s first serial killer. In May, anthropol
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7 years ago
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Pennsylvania is already known among water companies and their shareholders as being a good state for doing business.
And now, it
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7 years ago
Study: Breakthroughs can boost public’s trust of science but only temporarily
Columnist Tom Friedman notes in his opinion piece in Wednesday’s
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7 years ago
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Sleep paralysis: How a deep-sleep glitch can conjure the boogeyman
There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe
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7 years ago
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Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks
A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab.
Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab
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7 years ago
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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.
8 years ago
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Why don’t young doctors want to work in primary care?
Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists.
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8 years ago
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Explainer: How New Jersey’s welfare program works
This year marks two decades since a Democratic president signed a Republican-sponsored bill that revamped the nation’s welfare syst
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9 years ago