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Shakespeare aside, evidence doesn’t match Christie’s claim he ended Common Core
Task force recommendations call for hundreds of changes, but mostly in wording of questions and not so much in substance. A task f ...
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A new tool to assess the ‘truthiness’ of Presidential candidates
FactCheck.org’s director Eugene Kiely and Nancy Watzman, Managing Editor of the Television Archive at the Internet Archive spoke wi ...
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Al Aqsa Islamic Society invites Philadelphia to paint a mural
In this ZIP postcard, producer Alex Lewis visits Al Aqsa for a joyous, interfaith event — the communal creation of a new mural. ...
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‘The Hard Problem’: seeking science of consciousness
There are easy problems, and there are hard problems. Let’s get the easy one out of the way first. Understanding how the bra ...
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East Coast poultry producers are on the hunt for bird flu
East coast poultry growers dodged the virus last year and they’re on high alert again. An outbreak of highly pathogenic av ...
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Fighting Zika in Brazil by adding more mosquitos?
A new front opens in the war against the disease: genetically modified mosquitos. Under almost any other circumstance, Sarah Mota ...
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Measuring the impact of prenatal genetic testing on Down Syndrome population
The thin woman wearing a big winter coat seems nervous, even though today, the news has been good. “I went to my first prena ...
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Genetic counselors face an explosion of new tests, and increased demand
A shortage means long wait times for some patients. The first time Erika Stallings’ mom had breast cancer, in the earl ...
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ListenIs Pennsylvania’s budget stalemate pushing lawmakers into retirement?
Personnel changes in Harrisburg could portend an increasingly polarized roster of lawmakers. John Micek of PennLive joined NewsWorks Toni ...
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Are libraries nearing their due date, or are they in a ‘carpe diem’ moment?
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In a taxonomic library, shelves are full of birds, not books
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Mayor Kenney on working and playing at Burke Playground
As a kid, Jim Kenney spent lots of time playing outside in his South Philadelphia neighborhood. “I went out the ...
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At one Kansas City library, residents check out their health
We think of libraries as places we can exercise our minds…but in an increasingly digitized world, they public spaces make pretty go ...
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From pages to pixels, the invention of the eReader
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Will BookBots be the revolution libraries are looking for?
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