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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Philadelphia considering a ban on indoor electronic-cigarette use

There’s a bid in Philadelphia to ban electronic-cigarette use indoors. Councilman Bill Green introduced the proposal that would prohibi ...

12 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

Remembering how Jews lived, now just how they died

Today is the United Nations’ designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day.  It’s also the 69th anniversary of the ...

12 years ago

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Washington Square Park in Center City coated in snow. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Reporter’s Roundtable: derailed train, frigid temps

Tom MacDonald reviews Philadelphia’s response to this week’s major snowfall and plunging mercury, and Katie Colaneri updates ...

12 years ago

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Cynthia Baum-Baicker says her ear for music
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The inspiration behind Cynthia Baum-Baicker’s lifelong career in behavioral health

When Philadelphia-based clinical psychologist Cynthia Baum-Baicker runs a therapy session, she listens with the ears of a musician and so ...

12 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Distilling

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Visit the first craft distillery to open in Philadelphia since before prohibition. ...

12 years ago

The U.S. Capitol building at dusk in Washington (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight

Is this really a do nothing congress?

NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller discussed the effectiveness of Congress with Rutgers University Political Science Professor Ross Baker ...

12 years ago

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Donated school supplies pile up inside Girard College at an MLK Day of Service event. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Philly region honors MLK with 1,500 service events

For 19 years, the Philadelphia region has been celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with a day of service.  About 5 ...

12 years ago

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(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
The Pulse

The U.S. Health System: a complicated web of government and private industry relationships

What do you do when you’re a health policy professor? In the case of Robert Field, health policy professor at Drexel University, yo ...

12 years ago

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Anesthesia resident Dr. Arthur Kitt reviews the potential side effects of anesthesia with patient Michael Scanlon. (Maiken Scott/for The Pulse)
The Pulse

Understanding the mechanics of anesthesia

Anesthesia drugs are used in millions of patients every year but do doctors really know how they work?  On a recent Monday mo ...

12 years ago

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Book and pamphlet circa 1855 by Dr. John Snow
The Pulse

What role do maps play in solving medical mysteries?

A simple black-and-white street map made a Victorian physician a ‘legend.’ There’s plenty of disagreement about ...

12 years ago

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City Councilman Bill Green is nominated to be the next chair of the School Reform Commission. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Councilman Bill Green tapped for School Reform Commission Chair

The beleagured Philadelphia School District is still reeling from closures and cutbacks in response to the 304 million dollar budget defi ...

12 years ago

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A dead female bed bug is found in an interception device used by an exterminator in a Philadelphia home. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
The Pulse

Philadelphia’s deep and tumultuous battle with the bedbug

Are bedbugs making a comeback in places like Philadelphia?  Its scientific name is Cimex lectularius. But it’s commonly ...

12 years ago

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Songs of Faith, Courage, and Consolation

Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Thomas Lloyd has directed the combined choral and vocal studies program for ...

12 years ago

Mike Boryla
The Pulse

Former Eagles quarterback takes his NFL story to the stage

A former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, who left the NFL 35 years ago, is now looking back from the vantage point of the stage. ...

12 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

Life in Trenton as Tony Mack trial goes on

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cited Camden, Newark, and Princeton, during his State of the State address this week but he neglected ...

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