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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 ...
9 years ago
ListenThe ‘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 ...
9 years ago
ListenLack 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 ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat 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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
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 ...
9 years ago
ListenIt’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 ...
9 years ago
ListenWhy we should pay for science that sounds silly
A biologist says her research on dolphin sex is worth public investment. A whole bunch of dolphin clitorises are laid out on a tab ...
9 years ago
ListenPennsylvania’s poetry reading champ heads to D.C.
Madalina Richardson, a junior at Masterman School in Philadelphia, will take her poetry reading skills to the Poetry Out Loud national co ...
9 years ago
Dino’s Backstage: Come To The Cabaret!
Producer: Karen Smyles If you’re looking for great food, glamour, and a good time, venture just outside Philadel ...
9 years ago
PlantPure Café Producer: Monica Rogozinski PlantPure Café is a casual, whole foods, plant-based res ...
9 years ago
Philly’s Black History and Culture Showcase brings past triumphs, horrors to life [photos]
On Easter weekend, Everett Staten is a hard man to catch for more than a couple words. Sporting a black baseball cap at his signature eve ...
9 years ago
Thousands of Philadelphians leave tax money in Washington
One week out from Tax Day, many eligible filers in the Philadelphia region fail to consider the Earned Income Tax Credit. If the n ...
9 years ago
Why forecasters are already thinking about hurricanes
The weather is finally taking a turn toward the mild in the Philadelphia region, but bad weather always seems to be around the corner. Ev ...
9 years ago