Neuroscientist John Kounios tells The Conversation Weekly podcast about what his new research with jazz musicians revealed about the brain mechanisms of creative flow.
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Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.
A Philadelphia neighborhood is pushing back against the city’s plan to expand an existing shelter to serve people in active addiction.
2 marketing experts explain how the former All-Pro center for the Philadelphia Eagles has built a powerful personal brand centered on being a gritty underdog with family values.
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Spanish signs are becoming more popular in the Italian Market in South Philadelphia, but decreasing along the Golden Block in North Philadelphia.
Du Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the Seventh Ward. The area is now home to some of Philadelphia’s ritziest neighborhoods.
A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities.
Love it or hate it, the ‘Acela Corridor’ has developed a widely recognized identity thanks to the trains that link it together.
Initially developed in the 1950s, nitazenes are a type of synthetic opioid that has reappeared in Philadelphia’s street drug supply.
Neuroscientists analyzed the brain waves of 32 jazz guitarists as they improvised to chords and rhythms. Their findings suggest 2 key principles support innovative thinking.
Voters, city council and even local business leaders have tried to raise the city’s minimum wage, but face pushback from the state legislature in Harrisburg.
An evolutionary biologist is studying what these resilient urban pests can teach us about adaptation and evolution.
The new guidelines are not intended to reduce punishment but aim to reduce disparities in punishment that are linked to race and ethnicity.
Over a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they blamed poor Black inner-city residents instead of the racism that kept this group disenfranchised.
Evidence from NYC shows that stop-and-frisk policing leads to greater mistrust of police and more racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.
An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.
An education expert explains the potential benefits and drawbacks of year-round schooling in Philadelphia.
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Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, Drexel University
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Professor of Education Policy & Law; Director of the National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Penn State
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Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
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Freelance Reporter and Editor, The Conversation
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Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Drexel University
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Professor of Sociology, Temple University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology, University of Oslo
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Professor of Sociology and Environment and Society, Brown University
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Professor of Law, Villanova University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University
