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Emergency physician and researcher Raina Merchant heads University of Pennsylvania's social media and health innovation lab. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

What medicine could learn from Facebook stalking you

If you look at your social media feeds, how many of your friends are quite forthcoming about their aches and pains, and experiences with ...

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Producer’s Cut: Outdoor Stories

Friday Arts goes outdoors with Diner en Blanc, an Invisible River performance, and Museum Without Walls. ...

11 years ago

Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Jazz on the Delaware

ART OF FOOD – PRODUCED BY MONICA ROGOZINSKI Jazz Age on the Delaware is the first annual event that takes place a ...

11 years ago

Omer Kiyani
The Pulse

Looking for technological solutions to gun violence

With policy makers at a stalemate over how to keep Americans safer from gun violence, entrepreneurs try their hand at a fix. Omer ...

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Jennifer Boiler during her treatment for breast cancer. (Courtesy of Jennifer Boiler)
The Pulse

Why some women don’t like the term breast cancer ‘survivor’

As the world around us turns pink in October, thousands of people will take to the streets to raise money, to urge women to get mammogram ...

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 Many people in the African American community go to church as an outlet for any mental illness. Here, a young boy attends New Revelations Church in Oakland. (Alyssa Kapnik Samuel)
The Pulse

Dismantling the stigma behind black mental health

According to the federal government’s Office of Minority Health, African-Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental ...

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Brian Oglesby says the Black Men Run group is more than just a healthy brotherhood. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

Black Men Run, too; chasing good health despite stereotype

How a running club aims to improve health and participation in a traditionally white sport. Each Wednesday at 7 p.m., rain or shin ...

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A 'jet gun' used to give the smallpox vaccine. (Taunya English/WHYY)
The Pulse

How to spot a cougar at the bar: the vaccine that left a scar

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

11 years ago

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Mark Segal
NewsWorks Tonight

From marching at Stonewall to dancing at White House: Gay rights activist Mark Segal reflects

Mark Segal, the publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and one of the foremost activists for ...

11 years ago

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This treehopper in a greenhouse at Saint Louis University would not normally have a purple horn or
The Pulse

Good vibrations! These bugs do their sexting via plant stem

On a warm summer night, it can sound like there are insects all over the place, calling out from every lawn, bush and tree branch. B ...

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Clément Ader's Éole attempted flight for the first time on October 9
The Pulse

First flight or historic hop?

In June of 1891, the French magazine L’illustration published an engraving of a mysterious machine observed in the outskirts of Par ...

11 years ago

Ellen Kullman
NewsWorks Tonight

Shedding light on the sudden change at the top of DuPont

Charles Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, sits down with NewsWorks Tonight h ...

11 years ago

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Princeton University professor Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East
NewsWorks Tonight

Princeton prof chronicles Jewish life in 10th century Egypt

Perhaps less famous than the Dead Sea Scrolls, the 300,000 manuscript fragments collectively known as the “Cairo Genizah” are ...

11 years ago

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Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta also served as CIA director from 2009 to 2011. (AP file photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

Former Defense chief Panetta says US needs strong foreign policy to combat terrorism

During the Obama administration, few U.S. officials ...

11 years ago

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In 2012
NewsWorks Tonight

Neighborliness and PTSD in the wake of Superstorm Sandy

Areas of the Jersey Shore are picking up the pieces after a fierce nor’easter pummeled towns with heavy winds and flooding just wee ...

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