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Drexel, Penn, Jefferson researchers win Gates Foundation grants for improving health abroad
Building a better condom ...
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Downingtown high-schoolers to launch science experiment into space
A science experiment designed by high school students in Downingtown, Pa., is heading to the International Space Station next month. ...
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ListenHour 2 Guests: Susan Blum, Kelly McBride, Alan Brown It seems like every few months, some ...
Air Date: November 19, 2013
ListenA 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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ListenNPR 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
ListenStrong showing from Pa. universities in GSK drug competition
Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) just ...
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ListenOld 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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ListenShould 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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ListenCan 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 ...
12 years ago
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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