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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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A paramedic takes blood from a patient in Berlin. (Kay Nietfeld/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
Health

What’s the antibody coronavirus test Chester County is using?

The county started its program Wednesday: 10,000 test kits have already arrived and 10,000 more are expected next week.

5 years ago

Listen 1:49
Filmmaker Ken Burns (WHYY, file)
Education

Ken Burns joins Constitution Center for online education

The PBS documentary filmmaker will join an online home-school series to discuss Constitutional history.

5 years ago

Listen 1:38
X-rays showing a spine with scoliosis before and after surgery. (Image courtesy of Shriners Hospitals for Children — Philadelphia)
The Pulse
Health

Rope or rod? Torn between scoliosis surgeries

One’s tried and true. The other’s promising, but uncharted in the long term. Which would you choose?

5 years ago

Listen 14:11
“Sweet Spot” by Indiana bases artists Shawn Causey and Mark Daniell at Wonderspaces in Philadelphia’s Fashion District. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

New way to see new art: Wonderspaces opens in Fashion District

Philadelphia’s Fashion District hosts the third location of the national chain, which sells the experience of contemporary installation art.

5 years ago

Listen 1:45
A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts. (Big Stock photo)
Down the Shore
Community

Shore town joins forces with recycling company to repurpose cigarette butts

A Jersey Shore community is undertaking an innovation solution to a problem that has long plagued beaches: cigarette butts.

5 years ago

(Left) Pa. Sen. Vincent Hughes surrounded by other Pa. officials; (Right) Meek Mill and Michael Rubin (Layla A. Jones for Billy Penn and Screenshoot/Breakfast Club)
Education
Billy Penn

Fix Philly schools: Meek Mill and friends offer vague ‘millions’; Pa. officials offer action plan

“Don’t just buy a school to say, ‘Oh, yeah, I bought a school,'” said one Philly parent.

5 years ago

Philadelphia chef Eli Kulp (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Lifestyle

Eli Kulp trades toque for talks to inspire others at GREATPHL festival

The second annual GREATPHL opens this week. The inaugural B.PHL opens 10 days later. What’s the difference? Philly chef Eli Kulp’s presentation helps explain.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of Clean Ocean Action)
Down the Shore
Community

Shore town is first in N.J. to offer curbside ‘plastic film’ recycling

A Monmouth County coastal municipality is the first in New Jersey to offer curbside plastic film recycling. 

6 years ago

A solar panel owned by the City of Philadelphia. (City of Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Pa. grants $2M for solar tech at PGW’s liquefied natural gas plant

Philadelphia’s future LNG plant gets grant for solar panels. Environmentalists say that doesn’t make the fossil fuel project right.

6 years ago

In this Thursday, May 25, 2017 photo, an assembly line laborer works alongside a collaborative robot, left, on a chainsaw production line at the Stihl Inc. production plant in Virginia Beach, Va. (John Minchillo/AP Photo)
Science

Will robots take your jobs? Why this is such a hard question to answer

A new report says Philadelphia will do quite well compared to other places in the U.S. as more work gets automated.

6 years ago

Dr. Kamel Khalili in his lab at Temple; Dr. Howard Gendelman in Nebraska (Ed Cunicelli/Temple Hospital; University of Nebraska Medical Center)
Science
Billy Penn

How an Iranian immigrant and a Jewish Philly native joined forces to eliminate HIV in mice

The researchers, who met decades ago, share a lifelong passion to stop AIDS.

6 years ago

CEO Kevin Thompson and COO Naim Statham present their fleet of close to a hundred Verve E-scooters, stored at a former hamburger take-out restaurant located at the corner of Roosevelt Blvd and F Street, on June 15, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Philly natives enter the e-scooter wars with $100k homegrown startup, Verve S

Two Philly natives have invested $100,000 in dockless e-scooters. Now they just need their hometown and state to legalize them.

6 years ago

Listen 2:05
For decades, inventors have tried to re-engineer the standard white cane used by people who are blind or visually impaired. But it's a tricky task. (Image courtesy of WeWALK/Kürşat Ceylan)
The Pulse
Science

Why is creating electronic canes for the blind so hard?

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

6 years ago

Listen 11:23
The BIO International Convention drew thousands in the biotech industry from around the globe this week to the Pennsylvania Convention Center. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Science

Can Philadelphia be the next big biotech hub?

Tens of thousands of industry leaders came to the city this week for BIO, an international convention. Local boosters pitched Philly’s advantages.

6 years ago

ISA Principal architects Brian Phillips (right) and Deb Katz. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

These Philly architects want to build a house in your alley

As architects seek ways to squeeze housing into crowded Philly neighborhoods, they are turning to what ISA principal Brian Phillips calls the “leftover lots.”

6 years ago

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