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‘Wild Thing’ & ‘Angel of the Morning’ songwriter still making great music 50 years on
Dave Heller sits down with Chip to learn about his illustrious career and varied music. If you only kn ...
10 years ago
ListenWhat if restaurants billed like hospitals?
Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:5055 years later, local cancer discovery still shaping research
The discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome was a crucial link between cancer and genetics. There is a hallway in Fox Chase Cance ...
10 years ago
ListenWhat are the factors that contribute to great tasting tap water? A professional water taste tester explains. Arthur vo ...
10 years ago
ListenArden Theater’s new play finds the funny in kidney transplants
What happens when one person is asked donate an organ to another person? “Under the Skin,” now premiering at the ...
10 years ago
ListenPenn’s Institute for Urban Research looks at LEED, 10 years on
The standard for evaluating energy efficiency in buildings, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating Syste ...
10 years ago
ListenPhiladelphia campaigns: The week in review
NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller and WHYY’s Katie Colaneri track the endorsement chase in the Philadelphia mayor’s race. ...
10 years ago
ListenHow to fill out WHYY’s Pricecheck form [video]
Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, offers a step-by-step video guide to filling out the price check form. ...
10 years ago
WHYY’s PriceCheck needs your help to crowdsource health costs
Haircuts. Houses. Plane tickets. Computers. Ever bought any of these things without knowing the price beforehand, and then just paid the ...
10 years ago
ListenNew Jersey Capital Philharmonic
Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles The New Jersey Capital Philharmonic was founded by Music Director, Daniel Spalding in S ...
10 years ago
Obamacare on trial…again: King vs. Burwell
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...
10 years ago
ListenThe Philly dentist who helped fix Napoleon III’s bad tooth
How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...
10 years ago
ListenThis med student scours cities (and their hospitals) for pianos
Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...
10 years ago
ListenA cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...
10 years ago
ListenMedical-device makers rally to repeal tax
Sales on medical widgets are helping to pay for the health law. Device makers say the tax is a job-killer. High on the to-do list ...
10 years ago
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