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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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Actress Felicia Myers (left) portrayed a terminal cancer patient during the workshop. (Brad Larrison/for NewsWorks)
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Training provides glimpse into doctors’ struggles with tough patient conversations

If you or a loved one has ever been diagnosed with a serious illness, you may or not have remembered all the details of those visits with ...

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Friday Arts
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David Lynch: Philadelphia is percolating in me

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly David Lynch is an internationally ...

11 years ago

This slide from the Dr. Lance Liotta Laboratory shows Ewing's sarcoma
The Pulse

Is cancer a survival tactic on the part of our cells? A physicist shares his theory

The quest for a cure for cancer has become such a fixation of modern medicine that the very phrase has taken on a second life in modern p ...

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Philly man charged by corrupt cops has home seized by city

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office has amassed millions of dollars through property seized via civil asset forfeiture. ...

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Finding our galaxy’s most distant stars

Two new stars are found 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. Ask astronomer ...

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A lacrosse team practices on the artificial turf at Penn Park in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse

Could there be a link between artificial turf and cancer?

Millions of old tires are ground up and sprinkled on artificial fields each year. But is the practice safe? In October, University ...

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Rosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
The Pulse

This week in science: Philae landing, mouse control and cat genes

It’s been a busy week in the science world, perhaps best symbolized by the explosion of the “#cometlanding” hashtag on ...

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President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands following the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
The Pulse

Will the GOP have a climate plan in 2016?

Climate change hurtled to a newly prominent role in both domestic and foreign policy this week after President Obama reached a landmark c ...

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Villanova freshman Charles Walberg (right) explores a virtual room with computer science professor Frank Klassner. They are inside of a 'CAVE immersive learning space
The Pulse

Villanova University unveils interactive CAVE classroom

Some people look good in 3-D glasses. Frank Klassner is one of the them. The Villanova University computer science professor happi ...

11 years ago

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Egyptologist Kara Cooney
NewsWorks Tonight

Giving a notable ancient Egyptian queen her due

When Egyptologists gather this weekend in Philadelphia, the spotlight will shine on the first female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, some 4, ...

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Leslie Handler at WHYY studios. (Kimberly Paynter/for The Pulse)
The Pulse

Tongue cancer survivor thankful for her voice and a pushy dentist

Twenty years ago Leslie Handler went for a routine dental appointment.  It was her first time with a new dentist and she remembers being ...

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The vacant M. Hall Stanton School was built in the ’50s. (Image courtesy of the Community Design Collaborative via Google Maps)
NewsWorks Tonight

Reactivating vacant schools: Design group takes collaborative approach in Philly

The Community Design Collaborative, the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Philadelphia, and AIA Philadelphia will host a design charrette Fr ...

11 years ago

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Friday Arts
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November 2014: Greensgrow Farms, David Lynch, & Visual Soundscapes

Greensgrow Farms Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski In 1997, tired of growing crops in New Jersey, Mary Set ...

11 years ago

 Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, left, and Democrat Tom Wolf shake hands at the end of a gubernatorial debate hosted by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry Sept. 22 in Hershey. The tow will meet again Wednesday for the second of three planned debates.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
NewsWorks Tonight

1812 Productions offers parting advice for Gov. Corbett

It’s considered bad form to kick a man while he’s down, but that’s not keeping 1812 Productions from pointing out some ...

11 years ago

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Reporters Roundtable: Philly turnout didn’t doom Corbett; Wolf’s work cut out for him on energy

The significance of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s loss to Tom Wolf this week is amplified by an otherwise strong GOP showing in e ...

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