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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For those in the grips of serious mental illness, recovery can feel like an unscalable mountain. There’s the struggle to deal with the symptoms — t...
- Added: Sep 11, 2024
- Length: 59:01
Music has a unique ability to transform how we feel — it can cheer us up, make us cry, help us focus, or ease our frayed nerves. For centuries, wri...
- Added: Sep 04, 2024
- Length: 59:00
What are the forces that shape our lives? That determine who we are, how we live, and where we end up? It’s easy to think that our lives are mostly...
- Added: Aug 28, 2024
- Length: 59:01
On this rebroadcast of The Pulse - We’re in a major technological revolution where artificial intelligence, gaming, and virtual reality allow us to...
- Added: Aug 21, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Interest in using psychedelics for mental health treatments has taken off in recent years — but the field was just dealt a major blow on August 9, ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2024
- Length: 59:00
We’ve only been able to harness the cold for our benefit for a little over 100 years, but innovations like refrigeration and air conditioning have ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2024
- Length: 58:57
Asking for help is hard. It can make us feel vulnerable, like we’re sharing too much or admitting weakness. It can also stoke fears about our relat...
- Added: Jul 31, 2024
- Length: 59:02
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
