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An intimate look at the modern female alcoholic
Ann Dowsett Johnston shares her personal experience with alcoholism in her book “Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alc ...
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Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles In January, Rider University held an audition for emerging choreographers. The competit ...
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Why alcohol marketing targeting women has public health researchers concerned
The liquor cabinet in David Jernigan’s office is fully stocked—mostly with flavored, fruity, carbonated and pink-labeled–ad ...
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Bedside manner 101 for Drexel med students
Med students learn biology, chemistry, and physiology, but what about bedside manner? In a modern medical education, there are exams for ...
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Dealing with mom’s baggage after decades of hoarding
One woman shares her story of cleaning up years’ worth of newspaper clippings, cassette tapes and other memories from her mother ...
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Temple scientists hit Gulf of Mexico to explore human-generated deep-sea acidification
Temple University scientists are embarking on a three-week cruise to search for clues on ocean acidification and its impact on deepwater ...
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Germs in space! NASA launches WHYY microbe to observe in microgravity
A microbe collected at WHYY was one of 48 samples recently sent to the International Space Station to test how microbes grow in space.&nb ...
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New book chronicles Philly couple’s daring rescue of 50 Jewish kids on eve of Holocaust
Monday marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 6 million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis. The story of a Philadelph ...
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Earth Day pollution prevention through good housekeeping
On this 44th Earth Day, the efforts of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Philadelphia Water Department are focused in part o ...
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ListenTwo Friends schools mark 325 years in Philadelphia
This year mark’s the 325th Anniversary of two icons of Philadelphia education–William Penn Charter School and Friends Select ...
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Inga Saffron: It’s not just architecture, it’s city life criticism
Inga Saffron, who writes the “Changing Skyline” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism th ...
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How much sleep is enough? Researchers will evaluate national guidelines
What’s the right amount of sleep, where we feel rested, good, and our brains function at their best? A group of researchers is goin ...
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Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Coming from a Pennsylvania Dutch background and a long line of bakers, Holl ...
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A UD green chemist turns chicken feathers, soybeans into renewable building material
In this edition of So, What Do You Do?, Shoshana Martyniak asks UD’s Richard Wool how he makes vegan leather out of chicken feather ...
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Researchers replace guidelines with fables, to test doctors’ memories
Can person-to-person storytelling help doctors remember key information? Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recentl ...
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