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Robert Hicks
NewsWorks Tonight

Age-old therapy new again as medicinal leeches are back in demand

If you want to portray the primitive nature of medical science from a few centuries ago, you’d have awful things in your toolkit ...

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 Raku is an ancient form of Japanese pottery making. (Photo from WikiCommons)
The Pulse

Singing tunnels? Jam session between man and architecture

With the help of some microphones, speakers, and computers, five pedestrian tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden can harmonize with humans in the ...

10 years ago

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A rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
The Pulse

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 ...

10 years ago

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Baleen can provide insight into the last 10 to 15 years of a whale's life. (Flicker.com)
The Pulse

What 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 ...

10 years ago

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A golden spike in Pueblo
The Pulse

The 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 ...

10 years ago

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Gerrick Riddenbach and his cat Coal
The Pulse

Gerrick 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 ...

10 years ago

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A front loader scoops up  trash that has accumulated at the Omni Recycling Plant in Pitman
The Pulse

How 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 ...

10 years ago

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NextMove dancers
Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

NextMove Dance

NextMove Dance Producer: Karen Smyles NextMove is Philadelphia’s premiere forum for the best that da ...

10 years ago

In season 1 episode 5 of The Flintstones, Fred gets conked on the head (as pictured here) and it completely changes his personality. A second conk later on reverses it. (Screen grab of The Flintstones)
The Pulse
Health

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 ...

10 years ago

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Screenshot of Rita Hayworth as Gilda in the trailer for the film Gilda. (<a href=Photo via Columbia Pictures)" title="smoke" width="1" height="1"/>
The Pulse
Health

Parents, 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. < ...

10 years ago

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Sarita Kimble holds an audio description device at the Ritz Five movie theater in Philadelphia. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Human 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 ...

10 years ago

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Reels of film wait to be catalogued in one of the Library of Congress warehouses. (Irina Zhorov/The Pulse)
The Pulse
Science

Digital 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 ...

10 years ago

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NextMove dancers
Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

NextMove Dance, Ghosts Are Jealous, Metropolis Farms

NextMove Dance Producer: Karen Smyles NextMove is Philadelphia’s premiere forum for the best that da ...

10 years ago

The assignment is to draw a composite of the skeleton anatomy based on the visual observation of the present (but not pictured) nude model. (Bastiaan Slabbers for NewsWorks)
The Pulse

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 ...

10 years ago

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Science writer and editor Julie Rehmeyer. (Courtesy of Julie Rehmeyer)
The Pulse

Was 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 ...

10 years ago

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