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Katherine Teevan
NewsWorks Tonight

Brand-new Philly teacher looks forward to Friday, and also to Monday

First-week jitters are the norm when starting a new job. And when it’s your first job after finishing school, you want to give it y ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

‘Repair, don’t replace’ is mantra of Philly Fixers Guild

The Philly Fixers Guild is a newly formed band of handy people who want to share their fix-it skills with friends and neighbors. F ...

12 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

11-year-old from West Chester runs marathon on every continent

Nikolas Toocheck isn’t your average 11-year-old. The young runner has completed a marathon on all seven continents, raising ...

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Karen Beckman (Image courtesy of University of Pennsylvania)
NewsWorks Tonight

Penn gathering focuses on vital role of humanities and arts in modern research

The Penn Museum will host the HAIKU conference Friday and Saturd ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

For 200 years, bridges have made New Hope and Lambertville like two sides of same town

Two hundred years ago this weekend, a bridge opened up connecting the towns of
 New Hope, Pennsylvania and Lambertville, New Jersey.&nb ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

How lax can DUI laws be? Pennsylvania seems to know

Although the state toughened its DUI laws in 2003, on average one person is killed by a drunken driver every day in Pennsylvania.  ...

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Creative budgeting and community partners have allowed Nebinger Principal Anh Brown to provide a full-time counselor and arts programs for her students. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

As students head back to class, schools are still dealing with bare bones budgets

The Philadelphia School District will open its doors Monday. And for the second year in a row top district officials admit that resource ...

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(AP Photo/Matt Rourke
The Pulse

What the Medicaid expansion means for those ‘in the gap’

Last week, the Corbett administration announced a Medicaid-alternative agreement with the federal government that would allow more people ...

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Elmwood Zoo curator David Wood with the bison. (Kimberly Haas/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

It’s been a beastly week, but that’s always the case for Elmwood Zoo curator

For many of us, what we do each week at our job is affected by our bosses and our co-workers. But for David Wood, his work week is ...

12 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

What makes a successful public space?

Philadelphia has no shortage of parks and squares.  Some have become bustling centers of civic life, while others — well ̵ ...

12 years ago

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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz spent a lot of time at the  Scott Memorial Library of Jefferson University
The Pulse

Dr. Thomas Mütter — getting to know the man behind the macabre collection

In her new book, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz captures Mütter’s journey from young, sickly orphan to beloved surgeon and teacher ...

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Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji
The Pulse

Going back to the basics in Syria with physician Abdalmajid Katranji

Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji has been treating badly wounded patients in a bare bones operation room for the past four years in Syria.  ...

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Karyn Reyher has a hybrid cochlear implant to account for her severe to profound hearing loss at high frequencies. (Kelly Reyher/for The Pulse)
The Pulse

Turning up the volume on a quiet world

A million Americans have trouble hearing high-pitched sounds, especially vets and people working industrial jobs. But makers of a new hyb ...

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The world's largest radio telescope near Arecibo
The Pulse

Fast radio bursts – deep space’s newest noisemaker

Scientists are starting to hear a new kind of message from far across the universe, the question is what (or who) is sending it? I ...

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A single toe bone of Dreadnoughtus schrani weighs approximately 15 pounds. Only one was found. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse

Philly scientists discover new gigantic dinosaur, ‘Dreadnoughtus’ [photos]

A Drexel-led team of scientists named a newly discovered dinosaur Thursday, a sauropod from southern Patagonia dubbed “Dreadnoughtu ...

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