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Happiness in a bottle, just add SCOBY
Kombucha’s lack of science doesn’t deter its proponents. For seven years, Amanda Feifer worked in food marketing, help ...
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ListenCan you wash away your nutritional sins with a cleanse?
Pulse Host Maiken Scott tries it out. Think about all the burgers you have eaten, the delicious deep fried chicken, the cook ...
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ListenLead stirred up by Sandy may be impacting health on the shore
Hurricane Sandy devastated the New Jersey Shore nearly three years ago, but its long-term effects are still being uncovered. Accor ...
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ListenWhere would Charter/Time-Warner merger leave Comcast?
Comcast could have some stiff competition. ...
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ListenIs high-deductible insurance changing healthcare shopping habits?
New Jersey resident Ray Rizzuto says he keeps a closer watch on healthcare spending ever since he switched his family to high-deductible ...
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ListenThe Making of Charlie Parker’s YARDBIRD Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Saxophonist Charlie Par ...
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The watched pot: How scientists are making a better boil
Virus nano-coating is leading to a more efficient heat transfer. Making water boil is not the most scientifically rigorous e ...
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ListenElon Musk: Understanding the man and motivation behind SpaceX and Tesla
Elon Musk has been called a visionary and a mad man… and maybe he’s a little bit of both. A book out this week, “ ...
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ListenDiagnosing digital difficulties in medicine
If industries got report cards for how well they’ve incorporated new technology in the work they do, medicine might get an F. In a ...
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ListenPhiladelphia artist remembers her father, one of the city’s early AIDS victims
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the gay community was hit hard. But contrary to public perception, not all those who were infecte ...
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Listen‘Rock Steady’ boxing workout is helping some in fight against Parkinson’s disease
What started in a small gym in Indianapolis is now popping up in gyms and physical therapy centers across the country. It ...
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ListenWant to know what happened during your surgery? Apparently, there’s a note for that.
What exactly happened as your body lay on the operating table, and you were in a death-like slumber? The moments before surgery, f ...
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ListenPhiladelphia’s Prism Quartet debuts ‘Cha’ by Julia Wolfe
Call it a saxophone colossus — on Friday, the famed Philadelphia-based ...
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ListenMaking the transition from Lutheran minister to Catholic priest — with a wife
As the Roman Catholic Church struggles with a shortage of American men interested in joining the priesthood amid a rapidly aging clergy, ...
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ListenCharles Cohen’s journey from sound designer to musician
Electronic music has come a long way since the introduction of synthesizers more than a half-century ago. Today, virtually every pop, roc ...
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