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 Newly identified children with blood lead levels ≥5 μg/dL and former lead smelter sites, 2016 (City of Philadelphia Office of Property Assessment)
NewsWorks Tonight

Philadelphia health commissioner pushes back against newspaper story on lead dangers

The Philadelphia Daily News “Toxic City” series t ...

8 years ago

 Tracy K. Smith, a creative writing professor at Princeton University, poses in her Brooklyn apartment after winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry her poetry collection 'Life on Mars,' Monday, April 16, 2012 in New York. (Jason DeCrow/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

Poet laureate hopes to use tenure to promote love and understanding

Poetry is the language of the soul, and America’s soul has a new spokesperson in Tracy K. Smith.  The Princeton profess ...

8 years ago

Rebel Ventures
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Rebel Ventures

Monica Rogozinski In early 2017 a healthy breakfast cake, Rebel Crumbles, was introduced at all Philadelphia area ...

8 years ago

A hot coil in Matt Cline's lab. (Liz Reid/for WHYY)
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Science

Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

8 years ago

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Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) finds himself stranded and alone on Mars
The Pulse
Science

Science can make blockbuster movies better

Hollywood directors have a direct line to consulting scientists. Let’s say you’re a filmmaker. You want to put a littl ...

8 years ago

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Research show keeping a journal about things we’re grateful for makes us happier, and that’s good for our health. Reporter Shuka Kalantari shares journaling about skipping rocks on the beach with her toddler makes happy. (Shuka Kalantari/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

‘Positive scientists’ say you can learn to be happier

A busy journalist and mom test drives tools from “happiness science.” When the architects of America wrote about the p ...

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Health

A reformed fireworks enthusiast now stays inside on the Fourth

Each year, a Missouri  man created a bigger and more explosive pyrotechnics display — until the summer an ATF agent showed up at his d ...

8 years ago

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Can we have our hot dog and eat it, too? (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Weighing the health of hot dogs without killing the BBQ

Hot dogs are a staple of summer barbecues, but they’re also notoriously bad for you.  Franks are typically a processed food, which ...

8 years ago

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Jane's Walk: Front Street
Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Jane’s Walk: Front Street

Producer: Michael O’Reilly The stretch of Front Street located directly under the Market Frankford El just nort ...

8 years ago

Tayyib Smith (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Philadelphia wins 5 of the 33 Knight City Challenge awards

Grant recipients in the third and final round of the Knight Cities Challenge have been announced. The foundation supports groups that are ...

8 years ago

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 Jenny Leyh. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Adjusting to two new identities: mother and cancer survivor

Jenny Leyh was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She used to dread walking into the waiting room for ea ...

8 years ago

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 April Anderson is trying to quit smoking after forty years. She's HIV positive, which means the negative health effects of smoking are even greater her. (Morgan Springer/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Smoking is often the hardest ‘vice’ to quit

Public health experts say: Ditch your smokes. And if you have HIV, there are a few extra reasons to kick the habit soon.  At ...

8 years ago

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 Maria Rios, 20, watches over her baby, Aryanna Guadalupe Sanchez-Rios. (Heidi de Marco/KHN)
The Pulse
Health

Doctors scramble to care for U.S. babies with Zika-related birth defects

When her daughter was born in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby’s head.  She’d seen the te ...

8 years ago

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 The sentences come after about six years of trials. (AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

3 top Penn State officials get jail time related to Sandusky case

Three former top Penn State officials have received jail time for failing to properly report Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of child ...

8 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton (WHYY, file photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

Two views of Christie’s new anti-blight plan for Trenton

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie this week turned his attention to Trenton, announcing an initiative that entails bulldozing 500 a ...

8 years ago

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