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Space is the place: The history of Philadelphia’s Chinatown
Despite encroachments by big development projects such as the Vine Street Expressway and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia ...
10 years ago
ListenA morning of meditation with Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s Reach & Raise [photos]
About 2,000 people rolled out their brightly colored mats on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art this past Sunday for a yoga clas ...
10 years ago
Last-place 76ers first NBA team to sell ad space on team jerseys
The 76ers organization is defending its decision to become the first NBA team to put a corporate sponsor on its jerseys. A small l ...
10 years ago
ListenBeads to commemorate big moments in tiny babies’ lives
With beeping monitors and sky-high anxiety over the well-being of a tiny baby hooked to machines, it doesn’t seem like time spent i ...
10 years ago
ListenA walk into the void: putting distance between me and my addiction
Rather than walking across the country, I’d walked into the death of my first self. I ...
10 years ago
ListenTo sign or not to sign? That’s the question facing deaf children
The invention of cochlear implants and other technologies have given many deaf and hard-of-hearing adults and children the option to hear ...
10 years ago
ListenPatent models trace history and highlights of 19th century innovation
The engine of the American economy, in miniature. In 1790, with American democracy still a work in progress, American capita ...
10 years ago
ListenA small patch of old growth forest with big lessons in conservation
Less than 50 miles from New York City, tucked into a bucolic corner of New Jersey’s expansive sprawl, stands a 65-acre plot of anci ...
10 years ago
ListenProducer: Karen Smyles The quick rise of 22-year-old twin sisters Nalani & Sarina — from a small town in wes ...
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Helping refugees calls for practical approaches to mental health therapy
Millions of refugees are trying to escape persecution, torture and death in their homelands, and often endure arduous flights to get to a ...
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ListenGiving laptops to students helps performance, but school districts need to track effects better
Do test scores improve when schools provide laptops to every student? A new analysis of data from researchers at Michigan State Universit ...
10 years ago
ListenThe wipe of passage: overcoming anxieties in nursing
In many ways, a career change is a leap of faith. Even if you’re dissatisfied with your current job, there’s no way of knowin ...
10 years ago
ListenUnique group provides foster care for pets from military families
Since its founding four and a half years ago, PACTforAnimals.org has honored the importance of t ...
10 years ago
ListenInvestigation casts doubt on nearly 30-year-old murder conviction
LaFaye Gaskins is serving a life sentence for the 1989 murder of Albert Dodson in Philadelphia. He was convicted despite a l ...
10 years ago
ListenPhotographer trains lens on young black men and their mothers
Documentary photographer Denise Allen takes on subjects that she feels are misunderstood aspects of American society. That p ...
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