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Teaching medicine with fake cadavers that bleed, blink and breathe
The back of a sprawling warehouse in Tampa, Florida, looks kind of like entering the Matrix, or some sort of science-fiction movie. There ...
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ListenRecovering from addiction within the isolation of a remote island
A hundred years ago, Penikese Island was home to a leper colony, then a school for troubled boys and a bird sanctuary. This past fall, Pe ...
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ListenFiguring out the future when illness is your new normal
When something goes wrong, we all hope a doctor will find the problem and fix it, so that sooner or later, we can get back to our real li ...
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At Bob and Barbara’s, the show — and all the trimmings — will go on Thanksgiving night
Bob and Barbara’s is a bar on South Street west of Broad, a divey holdover from the days before this Center City neighborhood gentr ...
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ListenIs this crime-fighting technique invading your privacy?
A law enforcement tool designed to combat gun violence has found a new use as a high tech evidence collector. Sounds good, right? Well, w ...
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ListenHairy evidence: how a misconstrued forensic tool led to time behind bars
Kirk Odom spent more than two decades in prison for a crime that was later proven he didn’t do. “It was something that ...
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ListenReducing salt in prepared foods is tricky business
If you eat cereal for breakfast, and perhaps a slice of toast, chances are you have consumed a quarter of your daily sodium allowance by ...
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ListenAtlas Obscura at Mount Moriah Producer: Michael O’Reilly In an age where everything seems ...
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Are foods that follow our diet trends good for cats and dogs?
Americans spent $24 billion on pet food last year, and the pet food market continues to grow. The available choices go way beyond aisles ...
9 years ago
ListenFasting for health: the science behind this growing trend
Mimi Dexter-El has not had breakfast in over two years. That means walking by her mother cooking breakfast each morning, “sm ...
9 years ago
ListenThe surprising perks of farming fish in the desert
Fish farming is most lucrative in places where there are fish; coastal states like California or Louisiana. But in the middle of rural Ar ...
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ListenRussian cowboys learn to wrangle a brand new beef industry
On a beef ranch called Ledenevo, in the Bryansk region of Russia, about 300 miles southwest of Moscow, everything is brand new. The farm ...
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Listen 15:35Cuddling as medicine for babies going through withdrawal
Babies born addicted to opioids need to be help. Fortunately, people like Beverly Thornton like to do that. Beverly Thornton cuddl ...
9 years ago
ListenRoad to recovery: a motorcycle racer works hard to get back on the track
In June 2015, a devastating crash put Elyse McKinnon on a year-long quest to get back to racing. For anyone who knows Elyse ...
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