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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Doris Young cleans the hands of a child at the South Philadelphia Early Head Start. She sings 'Row
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Is ‘daycare syndrome’ a truth or myth?

Do kids in daycare really get sick more than kids who are not in daycare? Every year in the middle of cold and flu season, parents ...

11 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

Activists hope to turn MLK day of service into day of action

The Martin Luther King  Jr.  holiday is this Monday, and you may have seen  Reclaim-the-dream and reclaim-mlk h ...

11 years ago

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Hospital workers wear their scrubs into a coffee shop at 10th and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse

Should scrubs be worn only inside hospitals to limit the spread of germs?

Walk around near a hospital, and you’ll see healthcare workers out and about, wearing their scrubs. It’s the colorful, pajama ...

11 years ago

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A new survey shows that many people use their work bathroom for reasons you wouldn't expect
The Pulse

You do what in your workplace bathroom? You might not be the only one

If you chose the obvious, scatological answer, well, no offense, but you’re probably lying to cover up all the weird stuff you̵ ...

11 years ago

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How to motivate the wearable tech users of the future

Fitness trackers may do a decent job tracking fitness, but can they make lasting change in human behavior? A new opinion piece in ...

11 years ago

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The Pulse

Pursuing an engineering dream in a ‘slightly different way’

Hayden Dahmm is a senior engineering student at Swarthmore College.  He and his twin brother Ethan, were born more than three months p ...

11 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

Singer’s busy schedule; maximizing concerts, while minimizing conductors’ ire

Do you ever wonder how opera companies and classical ensembles can have those “casts of thousands?” The answer is a host of p ...

11 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Martha and the Lost

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly The figure singing and moving slowly among the tombstones is dressed entirely in full mou ...

11 years ago

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Pa State Rep wants to drug test lawmakers

Pennsylvania State Representative John Lawrence (R-Chester County) is reintroducing legislation that would mandate drug testing for those ...

11 years ago

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Mayor Michael Nutter places a plant into the roof of the Free Library of Philadelphia during a ceremony in 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The Pulse

Is Philly the greenest city in America?

During his 2008 inaugural address, Mayor Michael Nutter set a lofty goal: make Philadelphia the greenest city in America. The next ...

11 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Drexel Culinary Arts and Science

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski For the students in the culinary program at Drexel University, it is not just abou ...

11 years ago

When ICD-10 is implemented
The Pulse

‘Attacked by a macaw’…in ICD-10 there’s a code for that!

The language of medical billing hopes to cover any possible malady, no matter how obscure. Updated Sept. 10 ...

11 years ago

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 An art installation in the prison yard at Eastern State Penitentiary illustrates the soaring U.S. incarceration rates since 1900. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse

Teaching math and science through art, and a neural net (made of children)

In the fall of 2013, Ben Volta arrived at Morton McMichael School with no ideas. He had just been hired by the school in the Mantua neigh ...

11 years ago

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The Pulse

Does ‘bad luck’ cancer study undermine prevention message?

For Americans who have quit smoking, sought out omega–3 rich foods, or chugged gallons of açai berry juice to stave off cancer, a medi ...

11 years ago

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Bryon MacWilliams is a 'steam master.' He learned the art and science of making steam at a Russian banya
The Pulse

Can steam cure your cold?

Steam makes popcorn pop, keeps Old Faithful erupting and once powered the industrial revolution. But does it have the power to cure the c ...

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