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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Without medical support, DIY detox often fails

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KImmel Center jazz alums to present new works

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Liz Hayden is white, and Chavis Patterson is African-American … but people don’t always know that unless he tells them. Th ...

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 President Donald Trump talks with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Commonwealth Fund says GOP health care bill goes in the wrong direction

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 L and I Commissioner Dave Perri talks to City Council (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
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Philly L&I: We have ‘over 200 imminently dangerous buildings’

The topic of dangerous buildings in Philadelphia took center stage during City Council Budget hearings on Monday.  Licenses a ...

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Underdogs win cash to make ‘Star Trek’ device a reality

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 David Dorschu and Deni Carise with Recovery Centers of America standing in a room at the Lighthouse at Mays Landing, a treatment center the company flipped for $1.25 million last year. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
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From ’80s to now: Waves of investment in drug treatment can help, hurt patients

Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

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 Alex Spencer sits at his table making phone calls to be a test subject for new studies. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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This research subject calls himself a ‘professional guinea pig’

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No money, no science: what if researchers lose support?

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Religious leaders react as Trump relaxes rule on mixing politics and pulpit

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