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A century after the first birth control clinic opened, controversy remains
Margaret Sanger opened a storefront clinic in 1916, sparking the battleground over women’s reproductive rights. Brownsville, ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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NextMove 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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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. < ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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NextMove Dance, Ghosts Are Jealous, Metropolis Farms
NextMove Dance Producer: Karen Smyles NextMove is Philadelphia’s premiere forum for the best that da ...
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