Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“An American problem”: youth sports and its hurdles
Increasing costs. The pandemic. Crazy parents. American youth sports is facing some serious hurdles, and the numbers bear it out. Millions of kids st…
3 years, 1 month ago
Loneliness: the good, the bad and when it gets serious
We’ve all felt lonely, it’s a human emotion. But after the pandemic, Americans reported an increased feeling of loneliness. With quarantine and more …
3 years, 1 month ago
How the Philadelphia Orchestra changed U.S. Chinese relations 50 years ago
The United States and China have a complicated history dating back to 1949. But, relations shifted when President Richard Nixon visited China for the…
3 years, 1 month ago
How close are we to finding the cure for Alzheimer’s?
In the U.S. about 6.7 million people have Alzheimer’s, making it the seventh leading cause of death in the country. It’s also the most common cause o…
3 years, 1 month ago
Clinical trial participants don’t represent everyone equally
Clinical trials are how we find new medicines or ensure treatments work for a wide range of people. But what happens when the people doing the clinic…
3 years, 1 month ago
A new age of women's sports
We’ve seen tremendous growth in the interest of women’s sports over the past few years. Whether it’s celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX or …
3 years, 1 month ago
The debt is due - what happens when federal student loan payments restart
Federal student loan payments have been on pause since early on in the pandemic, but the break is over - those loans will start accruing interest aga…
3 years, 1 month ago
With the U.S. credit rating down, is there any way up?
Earlier this month, Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+. It was the first time the country’s rating dropped since 2011. What does…
3 years, 1 month ago
How close are we to an HIV vaccine?
After the COVID vaccine rolled out less than a year after the pandemic was first announced, we wondered about progress on a similar front: how close …
3 years, 2 months ago
What it takes to run a food bank in the COVID aftermath
At the height of the pandemic, we saw government assistance make a difference for a lot of people. They helped food banks like Share Food Program hel…
3 years, 2 months ago