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May 24, 2013
Researchers have released their final results in a huge, decade-long cancer study involving Pratt & Whitney workers.   Concern over the health and safety of workers at Pratt & Whitney began in the early 2000s. Several workers, all employees at the North Haven plant, were found to have died from a rare form of brain cancer.   Researchers were brought in to first, find out how many cases of cancer there were among workers; then compare that with rates among the general population. U... read more
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May 23, 2013
Pressure is building on the military to change its culture from within after an alarming Pentagon report estimates 26,000 servicemembers were sexually assaulted last year-- President Obama calls these crimes “shameful and disgraceful.”  Another layer to this problem is that very few of these assa... read more
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May 23, 2013
  According to the newly revised DSM V -- often called the Bible of psychiatry -- there are no hypochondriacs.   Hypochondriasis has be... read more
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May 22, 2013
The University of Connecticut has come out with a new study on violent video games. It looked specifically at whether video games that pit players... read more
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May 16, 2013
Today: The way the thoughts we have and the decisions we make are influenced by forces that aren't always in our control. Why are people named... read more
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May 16, 2013
This weekend -- and maybe sooner -- a lot of us will buckle on bike helmets which, we hope, will protect if we topple. One the show today, we'll lo... read more
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May 15, 2013
  Got an email today from a farmer we know down in Gales Ferry.   He writes: "We use new technologies on a daily basis, from our UCONN... read more
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May 14, 2013
Teaching to the test. Homework in kindergarten. What price are we paying for eliminating play in school? While parents and educators want the best... read more
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May 14, 2013
Vegetables that are genetically modified to resist pests have become a part of our daily diet, whether we like it or not. Several states have been... read more
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May 13, 2013
What does it mean to be ageless, no matter how young or old you are? Do you have parents or grandparents who want to be independent even in old age... read more
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May 9, 2013
  A few weeks ago, the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP released a report showing significant health, economic, and educational dispar... read more
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May 9, 2013
May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and as WNPR's Ray Hardman reports, advocates are pushing to extend foster care from 18 to 21 years old. There are currently close to 4,000 foster care children in Connecticut. And when they turn 18, they begin a sometimes rocky transition into the real worl... read more
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May 9, 2013
  Suicide rates have risen dramatically for middle-aged Americans in the last 10 years - the highest jump is for men aged 50-54. In a repor... read more
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May 6, 2013
No one can escape the issue of extreme food allergies. Maybe it's you who is allergic to peanuts, dairy, shellfish, citrus. Maybe it's your little... read more
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May 3, 2013
  Advocates for mental health have been expressing concern about the conversation in American following the Newtown shootings.  While we still... read more
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May 2, 2013
  Good news for bearded men published in the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry  found that beards block 90 to 95 percent of UV rays, reduc... read more
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Apr 30, 2013
We all know love matters, but today, positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson joins Faith to show us just how much. Even more than happiness an... read more
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Apr 30, 2013
Quick! What do Lewis Carroll and Donald Rumsfeld have in common with Virginia Woolf and Oliver Wendell Holmes? They all wrote standing up. So did E... read more
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Apr 29, 2013
Today's New York Times features an article about brain-computer interface which is speeding along faster than you might think. Your long wait for t... read more
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Apr 29, 2013
What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamenta... read more
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