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Medical student Regan Causey Tuder, age 43, holds the envelope that will reveal where she will do her residency.
The Pulse
Health

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 ...

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 Head Consul Alicia Kerber-Palmer at the Mexican consulate in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

What 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

Lillian Peck looking a shark in the mouth during a Gills Club meeting. (Courtesy of Hillary Peck)
The Pulse
Science

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 ...

8 years ago

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Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. (Photo by Shannon Grant, courtesy of Brianna Wu)
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Science

Game 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 ...

8 years ago

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Before she was a novelist, Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist. (Photo via Library of Congress)
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Science

Novelist 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 ...

8 years ago

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 A pattern is etched onto the surface of Zippo lighters at the Zippo Manufacturing Co. factory in Bradford, Pennsylvania. The company has announced layoffs after missteps in the Chinese market. (AP file photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

How 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 ...

8 years ago

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 Medical graduates from Iran, in Philadelphia on research fellowships, anxiously await results of their U.S. medical residency applications. The Trump administration's immigration executive order has put an added stressor on 'match week' for them.  (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse

Travel 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

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Chef Kontantinos Pitsillides
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Arts & Entertainment

Kanella: A Journey Through Cyprus

Produced by: Monica Rogozinski Chef Konstantinos Pitsillides came to the US, landing in Philadelphia, after living ...

8 years ago

 Have wax in your ears? Leave it alone, doctors say! (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

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 ...

8 years ago

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 A large cluster of adult flesh flies, Sarcophaga bullata, feeding on bovine liver. (Photo courtesy of David Rivers)
The Pulse
Health

Bugs 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, ...

8 years ago

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 David Losia, 21, cuts coconuts for the family pigs in front of his family house flooded by the rising tides where cinder blocks are used as a makeshift walkway in Funafuti, Tuvalu. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
The Pulse
Health

Legal 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 ...

8 years ago

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 Bill McDonald, rancher conservationist and Executive Director of the Malpai Borderlands Group, stands at the U.S./Mexico border near Douglas, Arizona  (Maya Springhawk Robnett/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Why 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 ...

8 years ago

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The Taweels arrived in the U.S. in January as Syrian refugees. Shortly after, they went to Einstein’s pediatric clinic for their first comprehensive health exam in the U.S. Dr. Raghava Kavalla walks with the two boys, 6-year-old Ghassan and four-year-old Anas, to an exam room. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

For 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 ...

8 years ago

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Street graffiti with an anti-gay message covers part of a privacy wall in a neighborhood in Jamaica. Advocates say much of the homophobia is fueled by a nearly 150-year-old anti-sodomy law that bans anal sex as well as by dancehall reggae performers who flaunt anti-gay themes. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
The Pulse
Health

After 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 ...

8 years ago

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 A technician looks at pig whipworm eggs through a microscope in the lab where they are produced and purified. (Photo courtesy of John Fleming, Detlev Goj)
The Pulse
Health

Why one man swallowed parasitic worm eggs

Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system.  About ten years ago, ...

8 years ago

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