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A running lizard slips and falls. Can that make seniors safer?
If you study them closely enough, maybe animals in motion can help humans move better — or even robots. That’s the idea be ...
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NPR highlights Philadelphia as a city where ‘tech procurement works’
The government procurement process. Are there four duller words in the English language? (I kid.) But here’s why you should ...
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15 totally weird (in a good way) talks from Ignite Philly 12 [audio]
Get up on stage and say something interesting. That’s Ignite Philly, in a nutshell. Last night was the 12th local gathering ...
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Guests: Justin Reich, Richard Halverson Teachers around the country are experimenting with the “flipped classro ...
Air Date: November 7, 2013
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Strong showing from Pa. universities in GSK drug competition
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) just ...
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Old tech, new twist: NeoLucida inventor to speak in Philly Thursday
At its most basic level, it’s a prism on a stick. Aim it at an object, put your eye just above the prism and on the paper below app ...
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Should this be Philadephia’s new city flag?
The Philadelphia city flag. You really don’t see it that much. “You really don’t,” said Edward Mitchell, a ...
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Can entrepreneurs improve public safety? Philly launches FastFWD to find out
Philadelphia has its problems. The city wants entrepreneurs to help fix them. In a nutshell, that’s the idea behind FastFWD ...
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US spying and the political fallout
Guests: David Sanger, Rachel Levinson-Waldman New revelations that the National Security Agency monitored the cell phone conversat ...
Air Date: October 30, 2013
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Looking Back on Superstorm Sandy One Year Later
Guests: Justin Auciello, MaryAnn Spoto, and Orrin Pilkey One year after Superstorm Sandy ravaged the Jersey Shor ...
Air Date: October 29, 2013
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Guests: Mary Helen Immordino–Yang, Scott Barry Kaufman Children are often told to stop daydreaming. But n ...
Air Date: October 28, 2013
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The legacy of The Mercury Theater on the Air’s War of the Worlds
GUESTS: LAURENCE MASLON & NATHAN GABRIEL October 1938 was a time when fear ...
Air Date: October 28, 2013
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