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Accelerating intimacy between strangers: artists experiment with the power of eye contact
You know that old saying, ‘the eyes are the window to the soul’? Well, during Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival this past ...
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Steve Mc Curry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic
Steve McCurry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts goes to the Mich ...
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What the f@#$ is up with the science of cursing
What do you say when you stub your toe? Chances are, it has four letters and starts with an F. But you might also say that word to emphas ...
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Mosquitos carrying Zika may have an Achilles heel
A Miami-based researcher and his team are hoping to make humans undetectable to the Aedes aegypti. The workplace of neurogeneticis ...
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Retraining the brain after losing the ability to smell
Anosmics have a new option for gaining back a lost sense. In 2012, Chris Kelly caught a cold, which then moved into her sinu ...
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Would you buy a car that might be programmed to kill you?
It seemed like a major moment in human history: a fleet of driverless Uber cars hitting the streets of Pittsburgh last week, making their ...
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The Privy Diggers Producer: Michael O’Reilly In the 18th and 19th centuries in Philadelphi ...
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The Brain Scoop and the sloppy business of learning
The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...
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Finders keepers doesn’t apply to fossils and bones
Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...
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Fighting for preservation in a wooded natural history museum
Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...
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Could old skulls help us understand why we have crooked teeth?
Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...
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A natural history museum questions what ‘natural’ means
In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...
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It’s ‘game on’ for the man in charge of 145 million specimens
It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...
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Listen 9:47Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays
A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.
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