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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Michael Valdrighi (L) and William Moore ready to take off from Northeast Philadelphia Airport. (Neema Roshania Patel/WHYY)
The Pulse

From Richmond to Philadelphia, a quicker, more comfortable ride to treatment

On a brisk morning, William Moore revs up his Beechcraft A36 Bonanza to fly cancer patient Michael Valdrighi home after a serie ...

10 years ago

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Friday Arts
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FringeArts

Produced by Monica Rogozinski The Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts, is a 17-day, city-wide celebration of i ...

10 years ago

The former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove and present day Horsham Air Guard Station is in Horsham
NewsWorks Tonight

A quest for benefits over illness linked to former Naval Air Station in Willow Grove

Wade Woxland served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, including more than three years at the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in ...

10 years ago

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U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle
NewsWorks Tonight

Boyle introduces measures to protect endangered species

The recent shooting of a gorilla in a zoo in Cincinnati focused attention on endangered species and the loophole that allows them to come ...

10 years ago

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(Photo: BigStock)
The Pulse

Doctors disagree about the ethics of treating friends and family

Friends do each other favors. And if your friend is a physician, that favor might be lending you medical expertise or a prescription pad. ...

10 years ago

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Katherine Flannery Dering and her brother Paul in 2007. (Courtesy of Katherine Flannery Dering)
The Pulse

How to get help when you don’t believe you need it

Just outside of New York City in a farmhouse in Bedford, New York, Katherine Flannery Dering is looking at photos of her brother, Paul. P ...

10 years ago

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After two car accidents
The Pulse
Health

Are good care and compassion lost in efforts to curb opioid prescriptions?

“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...

10 years ago

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Michael LaCombe holds the card he received from a patient he treated 50 years ago. (Courtesy of Michael LaCombe)
The Pulse

50 years later, a letter reminds a doctor of the life he saved

When Michael LaCombe was training to be a doctor, he met a woman in the psychiatry ward on one of his rotations. He would sit and talk to ...

10 years ago

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Tonia Hsieh at work in her Temple University lab. (Photo courtesy of Temple University)
The Pulse

One woman, the feet of a gecko and a scientific breakthrough

These days, Tonia Hsieh is in charge of her own lab full of eager science students, but when she was an undergrad, she found herself delv ...

10 years ago

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Martin Seligman (left) and Aaron Beck (right) meet inside Beck's apartment about once a month (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse

When two minds meet: Beck and Seligman on life, research and aging

For more than a decade, Aaron Beck and Martin Seligman have been meeting in Beck’s high-rise apartment located right in the center ...

10 years ago

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Indian spiritual leader
The Pulse

The science of an embrace: why does hugging feel so good?

We sent our least touchy-feely journalist to visit “The Hugging Saint”. When Amma comes to town, people line up—and ...

10 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Rick Rothrock, FringeArts and the SS United States

Rick Rothrock: Carved In Stone Produced by Karen Smyles Rick Rothrock was born into a two-generation famil ...

10 years ago

The Pulse won two national Public Radio News Director Incorporated (PRNDI) awards
The Pulse

WHYY’s The Pulse wins multiple national and local awards

WHYY’s health and science show, The Pulse, was recognized with two awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI). Th ...

10 years ago

Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

The Age of Aquarius in Chester County

Produced by Karen Smyles The Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) inspires, informs, and builds community ident ...

10 years ago

Theranos' founder
The Pulse

Tough times for Silicon Valley’s diagnostic wunderkind and her multi-billion dollar company, Theranos

The company is under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, largely due to reporting ...

10 years ago

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