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Both a mom and a med student: one woman’s midlife career change
Growing up, Regan Causey Tuder heard something that a lot of yo ...
8 years ago
Listen 5:15What the Mexican consulate is telling immigrants
Many among the roughly 200,000 Mexicans and people of Mexican descent living in the Philadelphia area are worried as the Trump administra ...
8 years ago
Sharks aren’t just for boys: Gills Club inspires aspiring female biologists
It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...
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Listen 4:37Game developer wants to take her cultural critique to Congress
Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...
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Listen 5:06Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first
The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...
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Listen 9:55How Zippo got burned doing business in China
The flame is burning a little less brightly for the iconic Zippo lighter. Manufactured since 1933 in Bradford, Pennsylvania, the company ...
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ListenTravel ban adds stress to ‘Match Week’ for these Iranian medical residency applicants
Amin knew he wanted to work in medicine from an early age. He recalled how growing up in Iran, he’d watch his dad experience seizur ...
8 years ago
ListenKanella: A Journey Through Cyprus
Produced by: Monica Rogozinski Chef Konstantinos Pitsillides came to the US, landing in Philadelphia, after living ...
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Seriously, leave your earwax alone
In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...
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ListenBugs on bodies: how flies can help and hurt a crime scene
It’s difficult to gross out David Rivers, a professor of biology at Loyola University Maryland. He’s a forensic entomologist, ...
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ListenLegal recognition lags as expected ‘climate refugee’ population grows
People migrate for many different reasons – war, persecution, poverty. Here’s another reason: climate change. A 2015 ...
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Listen 5:04Why Trump’s ‘big, beautiful wall’ might not be great for wildlife
Conservationists are worried about stopping non-human traffic at the border. The U.S./Mexico border region is one of the most dive ...
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Listen 7:10For these Syrian refugees, smiles and tears fill the doctor’s office
For four years now, the pediatric wing at Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia has blocked off Thursday mornings to meet with re ...
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Listen 7:07After fleeing violence in Jamaica, gay man seeks refuge in America
Anti-gay prejudice is written into Jamaican law. A colonial-era rule criminalizes male intercourse and LGBT activists say talk of jail ti ...
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Listen 11:06Why one man swallowed parasitic worm eggs
Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system. About ten years ago, ...
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