The Pulse
Series produced by WHYY
Weekly subscribable series.
Host Maiken Scott leads this one-hour, weekly tour of the people and places at the heart of health and science.
The Pulse is a show for curious people who ask: "Yeah, why is that?" Often surprising and always captivating, The Pulse makes science and discovery personal. Produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, the show features scientists, doctors, innovators and storytelling from across the country.
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Before dinosaurs, before trees — even before Saturn had its rings – there were sharks. The fierce predators have been swimming in our oceans for hu...
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Health care is a billion dollar industry in the U.S. — one of the biggest in the country. The business aspect of medicine is an invisible force in ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2024
- Length: 59:03
It’s easy to forget that the earth below us is always changing and shifting — but sometimes, we get a dramatic demonstration of exactly that, like ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2024
- Length: 59:01
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse: Freedom sounds great as an idea. Who doesn’t want to be free to do what they want? But when you take a closer loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2024
- Length: 59:03
Amazon caught the wave of the early internet at a time when very few people even understood what the internet was. Launched in a garage 30 years ag...
- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Imagine looking at a crowd of people, and they either all look vaguely familiar, or like complete strangers. It doesn’t matter if this is a group ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
DIY culture is all about empowerment — teaching yourself new skills to do things on your own, like retiling your bathroom or fixing a leaky faucet....
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Competent. Capable. Strong. Stoic. Provider. Protector. Leader. Patriarch. These are the kinds of words that we’ve long associated with masculinit...
- Added: Jun 05, 2024
- Length: 59:01
When it comes to science, it’s often the flashiest stories that grab headlines — the cancer breakthroughs, the tech innovations, the discoveries of...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 59:00
On this rebroadcast of the Pulse - We often think of art and science as existing in different — even opposite — spheres. One revolves around creati...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 59:02
When psychologist Lewis Terman launched his decades-long study of high-IQ children in 1921, he had a specific goal in mind: to prove that “gifted” ...
- Added: May 17, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We hear all the time about the joys of motherhood — the incomparable sense of love, the magic of watching your kids discover the world, the pride a...
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 59:00
In January 1995, the New York Times Magazine published a bombshell story with the headline: “THE GREAT IVY LEAGUE NUDE POSTURE PHOTO SCANDAL.” The ...
- Added: May 01, 2024
- Length: 59:02
When medical mistakes happen, patients and their families often find themselves at a loss trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. Something b...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 58:55
Every day, we hear about countless environmental threats — from air pollution and microplastics, to deforestation and global warming. And a lot of ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 58:51
Over the past few decades, Latinos have become the largest racial or ethnic minority in the United States, making up nearly 20 percent of the count...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 59:02
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse - It sneaks up on us while we’re sitting in traffic, or waiting at the doctor’s office, or doing our taxes — bored...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 59:01
On April 8, a swath of North America will be treated to a rare and spectacular sight — a total solar eclipse; in some places, the first in more tha...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Identity’s a complicated thing — a mixture of nurture and nature, ethnicity, gender, culture, conscious decisions, coincidences, and more. In many ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
It’s been four years since COVID-19 struck, transforming our modern world in ways we’d never seen before — and we’re still processing the aftershoc...
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 59:01
