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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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About 50 people gathered at the statue of Octavius Catto to remember the victims of gun violence and to call for gun control legislation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Survivor of school shooting to use his ‘white privilege’ to offset racial disparities in coverage

The 17-year-old said they "have to use our white privilege" to make sure all people who have died in gun violence can be heard.

7 years ago

Philadelphia students participate in a national school walkout commemorating the one month anniversary of Parkland, Fl. high school shooting
Politics & Policy

Students: 1 million expected at anti-gun-violence marches

More than 800 March for Our Lives demonstrations are planned around the world this Saturday.

7 years ago

A crushed car sits under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge on Friday near Miami. Authorities are still investigating the cause.
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Community

All victims recovered in Miami bridge collapse, police say

"We're pretty confident that no one's left," police said, though recovery efforts would continue.

7 years ago

Crushed cars are shown under a section of a collapsed pedestrian bridge, Friday, March 16, 2018 near Florida International University in the Miami area. The new pedestrian bridge that was under construction collapsed onto a busy Miami highway Thursday afternoon, crushing vehicles beneath massive slabs of concrete and steel, killing and injuring several people, authorities said. (Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Community

State: Voicemail about cracking in bridge wasn’t picked up

An engineer left a voicemail two days before a catastrophic bridge failure in Miami, but the voicemail wasn't picked up until after the collapse.

7 years ago

Students Walkout of their school to raise awareness about issues of school safety and the impact of gun violence.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Thinking of my teachers and the absurdity of arming them

America’s teachers don’t need guns. What they need is a commitment to preserve schools as places where students and staff feel safe and nourished.

7 years ago

Upper Darby Police Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Former Philly cop, now Upper Darby chief, offers nuanced take on halting gun violence

'I’m not against the NRA, but I’m not for the NRA,' says Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.

7 years ago

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Austinites gathered at the Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church last night after three bombings have killed two people this month.
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Community

After bombings, Austinites come together to emphasize unity over fear

Organized by the Austin Justice Coalition and Austin Black Lives Matter, the gathering was an opportunity for neighbors to come together and get to know one another.

7 years ago

Dymonique Hammond and her classmates from Freire Charter High School during the National School Walkout on March 13, 2018.
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

‘We knew in our hearts we had to do it:’ Behind the scenes of one Philly school’s walkout

Wednesday’s protests were officially about gun control. But they were was as much about young people stretching their voices, finding their place in the world.

7 years ago

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Gov. Tom Wolf
Community

Gov. Wolf creates Pa. school safety task force, no students included

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has created a new statewide task force to examine ways to improve safety for the state’s schoolchildren.

7 years ago

Rescue workers walk on the rubble after a brand-new pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University in Miami on Thursday, March 15, 2018. The pedestrian bridge collapsed onto a highway crushing multiple vehicles and killing several people. (Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Community

Pedestrian bridge collapses at university in Florida; several hurt

A newly-installed pedestrian bridge collapsed Thursday at Florida International University, trapping at least five vehicles underneath.

7 years ago

(M. Spencer Green/AP)
Education

Pa. educators decry Trump’s proposed school security cuts

"National approaches to school safety" are on the agenda Thursday as the Pennsylvania House Education Committee meets in Harrisburg for a hearing on school safety measures.

7 years ago

New Providence High School, New Providence, New Jersey (Google StreetView https://goo.gl/maps/ML8QPWAqMf62)
Education

Some N.J. districts discouraged students from participating in school walkout

Not all of the events in New Jersey occurred with the blessing of school administrators. Some didn’t occur at all.

7 years ago

Students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Dover said they were disappointed in a town hall meeting about gun violence. (WHYY/Zoe Read)
Education

‘We do not feel safe:’ Delaware students tell lawmakers at post-walkout town hall

Following the walkout, students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Del. attended a town hall forum that was dominated by state lawmakers.

7 years ago

Students at Charter School of Wilmington and Cab Calloway School of the Arts, in Wilmington, Delaware
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Thousands of Philly-area students walk out of school over gun violence

Students from more than 50 schools in the region left their classrooms this morning for today’s National School Walkout.

7 years ago

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On April 20, 1999, unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.. Fifteen people, including the two shooters, died. (Kevin Higley/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Decades after Columbine, preventing school shootings still vexes security experts

A 1958 deadly fire at a Chicago school was the catalyst for life-saving fire drills. Experts say the 1999 Columbine shooting spurred school security changes at a slower pace.

7 years ago

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