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Quirk Books, Greening Philadelphia, Tea Time

Quirk Books Producer: Michael O’Reilly Quirk Books is headquartered on a quiet cobblestone street in ...

8 years ago

 President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

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

Last summer, Pennsylvania pastor Gary Dull was one of the hundreds of evangelical Christians who filled a ballroom in New York City to he ...

8 years ago

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Pew: States should reassess whether tax breaks work as bait for business

Every state in the country offers tax breaks and other incentives to lure businesses that will create jobs. One estimate found the progra ...

8 years ago

 Robert Costa (image via Youtube)
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The new host of PBS’s Washington Week grew up in Yardley, Pa.

Covering Congress and the White House is a busy gig these days.  But it’s a job Washington Post reporter Robert Costa has embr ...

8 years ago

A person crouches down while browsing books at Joseph Fox Bookshop
NewsWorks Tonight

How many bookstores can you visit in a single day?

After the advent of big box store booksellers and online retail giants, small independent bookstores learned to survive – not by se ...

8 years ago

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 Eric Bennion said he thinks the morning routine of reading and discussing the newspaper every day before breakfast with his two sons enables better communication between them. (Max Green/for WHYY)
The Pulse

Dads are wired to ‘mother’ too

Fathers don’t just function as male mothers — they provide a kind of caregiving that’s unique to dads. When Eric Ben ...

8 years ago

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 An American robin sits on her eggs in her nest. She has to be vigilant or a cowbird may try to put a parasitic egg in her nest. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

Freeloading mother birds force others to raise their hatchlings

The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom.  Each springtime, when most bi ...

8 years ago

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 Carolina Garzon and her baby, Emma. (Alex Stern/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

How one mom got through losing her first pregnancy

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

8 years ago

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 Bioengineer Nancy Pleshko ordered takeout from an Italian restaurant on her way from her lab at Temple University to her home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This is what she and her two teenage children at home have for dinner around once a week, to save time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

The ‘baby penalty’ often sidelines female scientists

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

8 years ago

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 Dr. John Zimmerly reassures one of his pregnant patients, Kim. (Elizabeth Fiedler/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Lack of doctors puts rural mothers and babies at risk

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...

8 years ago

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is nearly obscured by the NFL Draft Experience on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

What happens when you mix an NFL draft with watercolors

Art is having a hard time competing with football. The NFL draft has taken over most of the Parkway, as well as the famous Rocky s ...

8 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Emily Cobb: Designer + Maker, Jewelry & Objects

Producer: Michael O’Reilly It’s not every artist who sees a sketch from the archives of the Wagner ...

8 years ago

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N.J. advocacy wants spectrum sale money for local news fund

Free Press Action Fund is calling on the New Jersey legislature and governor to invest a portion of the state’s FCC-auction windfal ...

8 years ago

A volunteer uncovers a body at the former site of First Baptist church cemetery. (Courtesy of the Mütter Museum)
The Pulse

Unearthing stories hidden in the bones of a forgotten burial ground

It was bound to happen in a city as old as Philadelphia. Last fall, in the heart of the nation’s first capital and just a st ...

8 years ago

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 The Jackson family has been balancing public and private life after Avery Jackson, 9, was featured on the cover of National Geographic. (Courtesy of Debi Jackson)
The Pulse
Health

It’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

8 years ago

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