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Paramedics pay home visits to keep patients out of the ER
‘Community paramedicine’ aims to keep patients out of the ER. Nancy Nolan is wearing a neon-pinkish-sort-of-creamsicle ...
11 years ago
ListenFrom fears to fascinations, what exactly is a death salon?
‘Death geeks’ (yep, that’s a thing) find a home. Several hundred people from around the world convened in Philad ...
11 years ago
ListenFace off with fear: Standing in the path of a charging elephant
Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert are “explorers in residence” for National Geographic — they have lived in Botswana fo ...
11 years ago
ListenSmart Death: Tech tackles the business of the great beyond
How a “Yelp for funerals” can help lower the costs and hassles associated with the end of one’s life. Any decent ...
11 years ago
ListenScream, the science behind why we like to be scared
Sociologist Margee Kerr has been a thrill seeker since she was a kid. She remembers her first haunted house at age six — it was at her ...
11 years ago
ListenUnlocking the secrets of growing a giant pumpkin
The world-record pumpkin weighs almost double what it did ten years ago, due, in part, to growers sharing their secrets. In ...
11 years ago
ListenNearly killed by kindness: Donated food hurt monks’ health
Phaithoun Feuachanthala looks like a man at peace when he’s chanting. He’s sitting at the feet of a big Buddha statue. His ro ...
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ListenWhere’s the oversight of psychiatric meds for Pa. youth offenders?
Other states have systems in place to track and control prescribing of powerful mood-altering medications. Pennsylvania is lagging ...
11 years ago
ListenMarking the birthday of Tourette syndrome’s namesake
Few neurological disorders are as widely known and misunderstood as Tourette syndrome. Few neurological disorders are as widely kn ...
11 years ago
The rituals and reasons behind laying the dead to rest
Buried, burned…eaten by birds. We are defined by our final resting place. Every culture has their own unique ways of dealing ...
11 years ago
ListenProducer’s Cut: Uncommon Philadelphia
Friday Arts explores uncommon sights in the city with The Wagner Free Institute of Science, The Berley Brothers, and The Divine Hand Ense ...
11 years ago
Breast density laws, for better or worse
To notify, or not to notify? Cindy Olmstead was about to have major surgery. She had found a cancerous lump in her breast and sche ...
11 years ago
ListenWhen the water is unstoppable, just move, right? Every year the residents of Newtok, Alaska observe the two rivers surrounding the ...
11 years ago
ListenHistoric Virginia island fights for its future amid rising seas
A historic community on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay may be underwater in 50 to 100 years. With increasing competition for money ...
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