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Arts & Entertainment

A Taste of Vietnam

Produced by Monica Rogozinski Tuan Phung and his family/team opened Bahn Mi and Bottles with the help from his fa ...

9 years ago

The Giant (bass-baritone James Osby Gwathney Jr.) performs in Opera Philadelphia's
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Arts & Entertainment

Opera Philadelphia offers array of works during O17 festival

After embracing the challenges of staying relevant amid evolving audience tastes and technological transitions, Opera Philadelphia is rea ...

9 years ago

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Beth Beverly works in her studio where she makes hats, jewelry and home decor items with parts of dead animals. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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Science

The secret afterlife of pets

Beth Beverly’s basement looks like a workshop – with a twist. A meat hook dangles from the ceiling. A head mount of a ...

9 years ago

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The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that made headlines in 2012 after scientists found a new particle, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013. That experiment is one of many in physics that rely on liquid helium to function. (Maximilien Brice/CERN)
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Recovering and recycling a critical chemical in research

Some physicists are leaving their field because of rising helium prices. A few years ago, Sophia Hayes, a chemist at Washington Un ...

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Combat Artist

Producer Michael O’Reilly While seemingly a study in incongruity, a “Combat Artist” has been a part of mili ...

9 years ago

 Buffalo on the Fort Peck Reservation. (Courtesy of Amy Martin)
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Restoring buffalo to the landscape

Robbie Magnan of the Fort Peck Tribes is pushing to bring back America’s bison herds. At one point, there were 50 million wi ...

9 years ago

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The Pulse
Science

The age-old quest to preserve native languages

Understanding and teaching the languages of tribes. Thomas Jefferson was convinced that the languages of native tribes in North Am ...

9 years ago

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 Mindell Dubansky has been repairing books at the Met for 35 years. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
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The art of preserving and fixing rare books

Mindell Dubansky has been repairing and taking care of books for 35 years. Mindell Dubansky once slapped someone’s hand for ...

9 years ago

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Archaeology students work to remove bones from the coffin of a juvenile found at the Arch St. development. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Science

Digging for clues from the past in historic remains

What started as a box of bones has turned into a massive undertaking. In Philadelphia, just a stone’s throw from the Liberty ...

9 years ago

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Peter Handler at work
Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Furniture by Peter Handler

Producer: Karen Smyles From a warehouse studio in East Falls, Peter Handler works away creating vibrant furniture pieces of alumin ...

9 years ago

A view of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway from the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY, file)
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Urban Planning

Celebrating a century of Philly’s iconic Parkway — and looking down the road

Fourteen months of commemorative events along the Ben Franklin Parkway are underway to mark the thoroughfare’s 100th anniversary. ...

9 years ago

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Brie Ripley the day of a bilateral salpingectomy procedure that removed both of her fallopian tubes. 
(Courtesy of Posey Gruener)
The Pulse
Health

Tie my tubes: choosing permanent contraception

Brie Ripley was young, female and seeking surgery to remain childfree. My mom was the first person to tell me, ‘you don̵ ...

9 years ago

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An NYU medical student speaks with Bianca Leigh
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Health

Rehearsing transgender healthcare

Medical students learn trans care in the classroom and the exam room. Bianca Leigh is playing a character named Tia Lopez. ...

9 years ago

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 Some men say they take testosterone to give themselves a boost in the workplace. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
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Health

How a hormone affects the way men think about money

New research shows how testosterone can affect financial markets.  Seven years ago, Tyler, the co-founder of a tech comp ...

9 years ago

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 Patients from the Kirkbride Center were the muse and painters of this mural by Eric Okdeh, which portrays the stages of addiction recovery: contemplation, clarity and resilience. (Courtesy of Eric Okdeh)
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In a room of their own, women find path to recovery

Sex-specific treatment is changing the fight against female addiction. When Tanya Barie, 33, relapsed after almost a year of sobri ...

9 years ago

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