
Technology
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: A Look at Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Airline Industry
Pennsylvania’s Department of Transportation officials recently announced a weight limit on vehicles crossing over 1,000 aging and crumb ...
Air Date: September 27, 2013
ListenChanging Attitudes Toward Driving and the Automobile
A recent report from the Federal Highway Administration found that Americans are driving less. Car usage reached its peak in 2007 and has ...
Air Date: September 26, 2013
ListenCHOP partners with VC fund to funnel revenue back into research
Commercializing research from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is nothing new. One of its biggest hits is a rotavirus v ...
11 years ago
Can a hackathon make it easier to get around town?
Thirty-plus coders and a handful of local transportation agencies say, yes, it can. It’s the third year SEPTA is asking loca ...
11 years ago
ListenHow a new robot in Phoenixville dispenses meds to area nursing homes
A Baltimore company is expanding into the Philadelphia area, using robots to supply medications to nursing homes and long-term care facil ...
11 years ago
ListenThe CDC released a sobering new report on drug-resistant microbes. It ...
Air Date: September 19, 2013
ListenPhiladelphia Zoo nets $6M grant from William Penn Foundation
There’s a bunch of other stuff, too, but a $6 million grant will partially fund “an overhead passageway allowing the Zoo̵ ...
11 years ago
Are these the 15 nerdiest places in Philly?
Nerds, geeks, dorks: Help us out here. A lifelong Philadelphian, Chris ...
11 years ago
With new job title, William Penn Foundation seeks new leader
After an abrupt split with ...
11 years ago
Education lessons from around the world
American students routinely score low compared to other industrialized countries on problem-solving tests in math, science and reading. ...
Air Date: September 10, 2013
ListenEight ‘green innovators’ square off at Greenfest Philly
From wool dryer balls to a company that builds ...
11 years ago
Nutter welcomes Brand.com to new HQ in Center City Philadelphia
Want to look good online? That’s what Brand.com promises. On Thursday, Philadelphia ...
11 years ago
Can Silicon Valley save the world’s poor?
Guests: Charles Kenny, Justin Sandefur Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is trying to bring the internet to five billi ...
Air Date: September 3, 2013
ListenDolphin Deaths off the East Coast; Cancer Sniffing Dog Research at Penn
Hour Two Guests: Robert Schoelkopf, Perry Habecker, and Cindy Otto Last week, scientists ...
Air Date: September 3, 2013
ListenCould ‘connected vehicle technology’ have prevented this South Jersey school bus crash?
In February 2012 in Chesterfield, N.J., a school bus was T-boned by a speeding dump truck. The crash killed an 11-year-old girl. ...
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