Technology
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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Philadelphia’s city-backed seed fund just announced its first investment
And the first investment from ...
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What’s up with the federal health insurance exchange website?
Guests: Alexander Howard and Tom Baker For residents of the 36 states who are eligible ...
Air Date: October 23, 2013
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Guests: Emily Broad Leib, Nelson Widell, Michael Webber Imagine throwing away forty percent of what you just boug ...
Air Date: October 22, 2013
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Philly is getting an Innovators Walk of Fame. Here’s the inaugural class
It ain’t no Hollywood Walk of Fame, but it’s a start. By late 2014, Philadelphia will have its own “Innovators W ...
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Solar-powered battery charger takes top prize in Drexel incubator competition
Every year, Drexel’s Baiada Institute for Entrepreneurship puts on a competition. Startups launched by Drexel students and alu ...
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Local MacArthur ‘geniuses’ on grit and Camden’s most vulnerable
GUESTS: ANGELA DUCKWORTH & DR. JEFFREY BRENNER The annual ...
Air Date: October 16, 2013
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