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How climate change is affecting space race
Part of NASA’s mission is to find new real estate, so to speak, in space – places for humans to eventually colonize and sprea ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat can a whale’s baleen tell us about climate change?
Whale baleen is one of the most remarkable anatomical traits Northern Arizona University Endocrinologist Kathleen Hunt has ever worked wi ...
9 years ago
ListenThe anthropocene: Geologists take up the question of a new epoch
Hermann Pfefferkorn’s office, at the University of Pennsylvania, spills across a large, well-lit room that seems to have closed in on i ...
9 years ago
ListenGerrick Reidenbach can’t smell his cat
A skateboarding slam left Gerrick without a sense of smell, and his memories of the scents he loved are fading. At one time or ano ...
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ListenHow one symbol has led to truckloads of trash and confusion
It was 1970 when Gary Anderson, a 23-year-old architecture student at the University of Southern California, saw a poster for a design co ...
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ListenNextMove Dance Producer: Karen Smyles NextMove is Philadelphia’s premiere forum for the best that da ...
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Fact or cartoon fiction: Can the ‘double conk’ cure amnesia?
Mary Spiers runs the website neuropsyfi.com, which is devoted to how brain science is depicted i ...
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Listen 9:27Parents, researchers fight to stamp out smoking on the big screen
Some kid movies are kicking the smoking habit. When a movie hero strikes a match and lights a cigarette, it means something. ...
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Listen 5:50Human voice is key to unlocking movie magic for the blind
There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...
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Listen 5:23Digital demands paradigm shift in film archiving
At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...
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Listen 7:34NextMove Dance, Ghosts Are Jealous, Metropolis Farms
NextMove Dance Producer: Karen Smyles NextMove is Philadelphia’s premiere forum for the best that da ...
9 years ago
Could art class help med students become more observant, empathetic doctors?
Medical schools across the country including Harvard, Yale and Northwestern universities are mixing in literature, art, drama—even danc ...
9 years ago
ListenWas advice for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome all wrong?
The way doctors treat different illnesses is guided – and often changed pretty dramatically – by research. But – what if th ...
9 years ago
ListenIronman triathletes ride the fine line between healthy and risky exercise
For a handful of triathletes training in a pool in the suburbs of Kansas City, simply swimming laps is too easy. Instead, theyR ...
9 years ago
ListenCatching a killer that hides deep in our veins
Effective public health messages have to be short and clear: Smoking kills. Don’t drink and drive. Buckle up for safety. Eat a rain ...
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