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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One in five Americans live in a multigenerational household — that means at least two separate adult generations share the space. Think grandparent...
- Added: Dec 10, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Most of us trust our doctors to figure out what’s wrong with us — but pinpointing illness isn’t always that easy. Sometimes, getting the right diag...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 58:59
On this rebroadcast of the Pulse - We all know that drinking a lot of alcohol is bad for your health. It’s tied to heart disease, heightened risk f...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 58:59
On this rebroadcast of the Pulse - The pandemic has changed the way a lot of us understand and experience happiness. In normal times, we think of h...
- Added: Dec 28, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Owning a pet means making decisions that affect their health — from what they eat, to whether and how much they exercise, to how they spend their d...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Plastic gets a bad rap — over the years, it’s become synonymous with environmental destruction, cheap fakery, needless consumption, and mass-produc...
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Who are you? There are dozens of ways to answer that question, from your name and nationality, to your relationships and job, all the way down to t...
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 58:59
When we think of “the future,” it sounds like something abstract and faraway — we imagine new inventions, cutting-edge innovations, life on other p...
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 59:00
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse — What is love? Is it that warm and fuzzy feeling, that crazed obsession, that deep sentiment of trust and good wi...
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Every time you get a prescription drug, you’re dealing with a middleman you’ve probably never heard of — one who has had a hand in how much your dr...
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 58:59
School closures during the pandemic have pushed education for millions of kids into a virtual setting. The sudden changes have caused some people t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Humans have long tried to mitigate their own destructive impact on the planet through conservation efforts. Often, those efforts are attached to on...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Throughout the darkest hours of this pandemic, the world kept its gaze trained on the light at the end of the tunnel: a vaccine. Just over a year i...
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Who becomes a physician in this country — and who never gets that chance? It’s a question a lot of medical schools are grappling with, as groups li...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 58:59
The modern world is made possible by a web of electromagnetic radiation. Your phone, computer, TV, cable box, radio — all depend on millions of sig...
- Added: Mar 18, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Left to their own devices, viruses are pretty much helpless. They need cells to infect in order to replicate. But they’re sneaky — many of them als...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 58:59
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse - There’s not a lot to laugh about right now. But throughout the pandemic, we’ve managed to joke about our shared ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 58:59
More than 2 million people in the U.S. are incarcerated — and tens of thousands have had COVID-19. The pandemic has brought more attention than eve...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse - Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the p...
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: 59:00
“Trust the science!” It’s a phrase we've heard a lot during the pandemic. It’s come to mean things like “wear masks” or “get vaccinated,” but the p...
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 59:00
