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Even in the 21st Century, women take on the major role in food work
There’s ample evidence of shifting gender roles in America regarding food–many of us can count male foodies among our friends ...
11 years ago
ListenNutter legacy on business: a neighborhood view
Philadelphia’s next mayor, Jim Kenney, takes office January 4. As Mayor Michael Nutter prepares to leave, we’re taking ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Slacktivists’ are crucial to social movements
NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller discussed the study with its co-author, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, professor at the Annenberg School for ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Home for the Holidays’ with chef Lidia Bastianich
In her latest PBS special, celebrity chef, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich invites six celebrity guests of different ethnic back ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat it’s like to finish last in the Philadelphia Marathon
Steve Clark is a Philadelphia teacher who always wanted to do something heroic – on the scale of a Greek hero. Problem is, he doesnR ...
11 years ago
ListenSearching for a new liver; traveling for transplant
A young man leaves home in search of a new liver. Last summer, Seth Doraiswami, a stonemason from Belmont, Massachusetts planned a ...
11 years ago
ListenHer newborn in withdrawal, a young mother faces her own recovery. “Where’s everybody headed?” “Six, ...
11 years ago
ListenNew 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 ...
11 years ago
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 ...
11 years ago
ListenNIGHTSCAPE and the KLIP Collective
Produced by Michael O’Reilly KLIP Collective, as the name might suggest, is ...
11 years ago
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 ...
11 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 ...
11 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 ...
11 years ago
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 ...
11 years ago
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 ...
11 years ago
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