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Living on Earth is an environmental news and information program. Each week host Steve Curwood guides the listener through a mix of news, features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.

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Food and Femininity by  Kate Cairns and Josée Johnston (Image via Amazon.com)
NewsWorks Tonight

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 ...

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter speaks with members of the media during a news conference Tuesday
NewsWorks Tonight

Nutter 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 ...

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‘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 ...

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‘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 ...

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Steve Clark was the last person to cross the finish line at the Philadelphia Marathon this year. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

What 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 ...

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 Seth Doraiswami was given a fresh start when he got a new liver. (Karen Shakerdge/for WHYY)
The Pulse

Searching 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 ...

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 Carolina Garzon and her baby, Emma. (Alex Stern/WHYY)
The Pulse

One addiction, two recoveries

Her newborn in withdrawal, a young mother faces her own recovery. “Where’s everybody headed?” “Six, ...

11 years ago

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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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Maggie Hall
The Pulse

Discovering 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 ...

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NIGHTSCAPE and the KLIP Collective

Produced by Michael O’Reilly KLIP Collective, as the name might suggest, is ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

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 ...

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The Pulse

New 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

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Joan Kimball and Bob Wiemken
NewsWorks Tonight

Piffaro 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

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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference in Washington
NewsWorks Tonight

What 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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Physician and Robert Wood Johnson fellow Anita Ravi (left) with Dr. Amanda Harris at the Institute for Family Health's FQHC clinics in New York City. (Courtesy of Anita Ravi)
The Pulse

Doctors 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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