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Ant guts provide insights into how symbiosis works
For this edition of “So, What Do You Do?,” a New Jersey writer sits down with a Drexel biologist to talk about the organisms ...
12 years ago
ListenPortrait series focuses on people ‘Torn Apart’ by workplace injury
In 2009, George Beerley was operating heavy equipment at a construction site near Doylestown, Pa., when his machinery jammed. In 2 ...
12 years ago
ListenWhy forecasting weather for the Philadelphia area is so hard to do
Many are calling this week’s hyped up weather forecast a blizzard bust for the Philadelphia region. So what happened? Tom Th ...
12 years ago
ListenThe GOP champion of a minimum wage increase
Minimum wage earners in Pennsylvania currently make $7.25 per hour. Efforts to raise that are surprisingly coming from state Sen. S ...
12 years ago
ListenIf you’re going to cancel flights, now’s the time to do it
Even though the snow totals didn’t amount to much, many airlines made the preemptive decision to cancel flights into and out of Phi ...
12 years ago
ListenOn the local web: A must-have app for Wawa lovers, and a trio of new Philly news sites
Don’t forget to bring along your smartphone on your next Wawa run. The much-loved area retailer has (finally) debuted an app, allow ...
12 years ago
ListenPOTUS: Precision Medicine Initiative will bring us closer to a cancer cure
So, what exactly is “precision medicine”? President Barack Obama is launching a “Precision Medicine Initiative.& ...
12 years ago
ListenPortrait project brings stories of recovery out of ‘the rooms’
Jillian Bauer has found a lot of support in “the rooms.” That’s shorthand for meetings of recovery groups, like ...
12 years ago
ListenClimate change to Philly trees: it’s not 1910 anymore
The Philadelphia Parks Department is launching experiments at three different test sites in city parks in the hopes of designing a forest ...
12 years ago
ListenArt of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Founded by WDAS program director/deejay Jimmy Bishop in conjunction with Jamie/Guyden R ...
12 years ago
New blood test could indicate long-term severity of concussions
Over the past 15 years, scientists and physicians have come to realize that concussions are very serious injuries. In fact, about 20 perc ...
12 years ago
ListenWith more adversity comes more love for couple dealing with cancer
Imagine you’re young, and totally healthy. For a few nights, you wake up in cold sweats, feel generally lousy, have some respirator ...
12 years ago
ListenIn difficult times, Judy Wilson lends a hand
Today marks the 42nd Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that made abortion legal. Thousands of women m ...
12 years ago
ListenPenn Veterinary grads named to Forbes “30 Under 30”
Forbes annual “30 Under 30” listing of millenial movers, makers, and young game changers in the field of healthcare cites two ...
12 years ago
ListenAnthony Williams makes his pitch to be Philly’s next mayor
With the departure of lawyer Ken Trujillo from the Philadelphia mayor’s race, three Democratic candidates remain. One of them ...
12 years ago
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