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New year, new you? Not that simple, Shankar Vedantam says
We spend a lot of time studying ourselves and our behavior — how we buy things, how we motivate ourselves, how we concentrate. But does ...
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ListenDiscovering new diseases on a diagnostic odyssey
Some spend their whole lives unsure of what disease they’re suffering from. For them, a new network of health centers across the co ...
10 years ago
ListenNIGHTSCAPE and the KLIP Collective
Produced by Michael O’Reilly KLIP Collective, as the name might suggest, is ...
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Amid recession and state cuts, Nutter’s anti-poverty efforts find success
NewsWorks Tonight has been looking at Mayor Michael Nutter’s legacy in several key areas affecting Philadelphia. In the fift ...
10 years ago
ListenNew research shows tone deafness is caused in the brain, not the ears
True tone deafness, or congenital amusia, is relatively rare. It’s a disorder in which people are unable to tell one note from anot ...
10 years ago
ListenPiffaro celebrates 30 years, Christmas in Germany, and going global with Google
Say “Renaissance music” and you might think of players stuck in time, rehashing works unchanged in 500 years. But when you ta ...
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ListenWhat will rise in interest rate mean for Philadelphia housing market?
Wednesday’s news from the Federal Reserve about interest rates signals the institution’s slowly rising confidence in the econ ...
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ListenDoctors asking about domestic violence is important, but daunting
Doctors are certainly used to bringing up uncomfortable topics – they ask us about all kinds of very private things; sex, drugs, an ...
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ListenTurning bikes into smog-sensing machines
Sometimes in the field of citizen science, scientific instruments can start to look a little like that science fair project you did back ...
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ListenDuring the holidays, this doctor rethinks idea of family
It was Christmas 2012, and Michael Knight was a medical intern at a hospital in New York City. “While everyone else wa ...
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ListenThe failure to report results of clinical trials could hurt you
Big research institutions and pharma companies are failing to report study results, even though they are required to do so, according to ...
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ListenProducer: Monica Rogozinski COOK is Philadelphia ...
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A man’s fight against climate change, one tree at a time
While world leaders are in Paris discussing ways to limit future green house gas emissions, others are thinking about what they can do to ...
10 years ago
ListenReading a person’s mind is ‘skill, not magic’
Max Major looks more like a European soccer star than a magician, with his lean, athletic physique and stylish hairdo – somewhere b ...
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ListenNutter has mixed record on taxes
NewsWorks Tonight is looking at the legacy of ougoing Mayor Michael Nutter. Philadelphia’s 99th mayor, Jim Kenney, will be i ...
10 years ago
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