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Rose Marie Beauchemin Verzella uses a template to pick the size of Maureen Matteis-Bilbee’s nipple and areola tattoos. (Alex Stern for WHYY)
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Lifestyle

After mastectomy, some women visit tattoo artists

The “illusion of protrusion” makes for a realistic nipple tattoo.

8 years ago

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Alim Smith
Speak Easy
Community

Black consciousness has been hacked

A lot of black people are in a space where we have the spirit, the soul, and all that it takes to override oppression, but it means nothing if we don’t believe it.

8 years ago

Tayyib Smith
Speak Easy
Community

Creating my black future from freedom, social impact, and collective good

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

8 years ago

A diagram from an Amazon patent application shows a human worker (labeled with
NPR
Science

Wrist watching: Amazon patents system to track, guide employees’ hand movements

"This idea, if implemented in the future, would improve the process for our fulfillment associates," the company says.

8 years ago

(Shirley Min/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Drone school takes off in Delaware

As technology advances, new ways to use drones are being discovered and that could mean big money for FAA-certified commercial drone pilots.

8 years ago

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Hackers take part to a test at the Cybersecurity Conference in Lille, northern France, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017.  (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
Education

Delaware announces cybersecurity partnership for high school girls

Delaware leaders are offering a free training opportunity for high school girls interested in a career in cybersecurity.

8 years ago

University of Pennsylvania junior chemistry major Sisan Dorsu worked to design a nanocoating for tents.
Science

Penn students aiming to build a smarter shelter for refugees

University of Pennsylvania students are working with the nonprofit ShelterBox to improve conditions for some of the millions uprooted from their homes.

8 years ago

In this Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, Dr. Albert Maguire, right, checks the eyes of Misa Kaabali, 8, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Misa was 4-years-old when he received his gene therapy treatment. On Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the therapy which improves the vision of patients with a rare form of inherited blindness, another major advance for the burgeoning field of genetic medicine. (Bill West/AP Photo, file)
Health

Spark Therapeutics sets price for pioneering gene therapy

The Philadelphia-based company announced Wednesday that its recently-approved gene therapy, which has the potential to cure a rare form of blindness, will cost $850,000.

8 years ago

Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Precision medical treatments have a quality control problem

Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine.

8 years ago

Volunteer Greg Ruegsegger is outfitted with monitors, a catheter threaded into a vein and a mask to capture his breath in an experiment run by Joyner to measure human performance. (Richard Harris/NPR)
NPR
Science

Will gathering vast troves of information really lead to better health?

The Mayo Clinic is building its future around high-tech approaches to research known as "precision medicine."

8 years ago

FILE - In this April 3, 2013 file photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. As Venezuela’s national currency loses value at a catastrophic rate, thousands have begun turning to the world of cryptocurrency to salvage what little value remains from their increasingly worthless bolivars. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Puerto Rico update / The rise of Bitcoin

Guests: Dánica Coto, John Collins, Joshua Ashley Klayman, Angela Walch Puerto Rico is still str ...

Air Date: December 18, 2017

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Cocktail avocados: adorable, seedless — safer for those who can't cut the kind with a pit? (Maanvi Singh/for NPR)
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Science

Avocado hand injuries are real. Is a seedless fruit the answer?

Behold, the cocktail avocado. No, that's not a weird cucumber. It's the latest in avocado innovation, on offer at British retail chain Marks & Spencer.

8 years ago

Keilina Collazo (left) and Elima Patterson, students at Edison High School, offer their homemade coquito for sale. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY).
Education

Teenage ingenuity on display at Philly school holiday fair

Eclectic doesn’t begin to describe Kensington High School’s stand at Philadelphia’s annual CTE Holiday County Fair.

8 years ago

Graphic reporting by Jim Nuttle from Katrina Stevens' presentation about evaluating education technology.
Speak Easy
Education

Can we make purchasing classroom tech more like buying a car?

Schools nationwide are spending over $13 billion in K-12 alone and have little idea if any of it works. We can’t afford to spend this kind of money blindly.

8 years ago

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