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Seven new historical markers for Philadelphia – seven stories from the past
A starlet’s home, America’s first Bible Society, a 300-year-old bridge that cars still use, and an early Jewish basketball team that now survives in a surprising form.
$5 a day is too much for food in Philadelphia, right? Then hooray for government cuts!
In an age of tax cuts and budget battles, we should show everyone how easy it is to live on five bucks a day in the low-budget, low-maintenance hollow of Philadelphia.
You can watch the price of electricity go up and down in real time
A new Electricity Price Ticker tracks the real time wholesale electricity price for the PECO area. You can waste a lot of power learning how much power you’re wasting.
Free eye tests for seeing eye dogs, and other service canines in Philadelphia
It’s time again to take your service dog to U Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine for his annual visit with an ophthalmologist. Wow. Has it really been a year already?
The Beatles are finally replaced by automation at Drexel University
So here you are, a bunch of robots at Drexel University playing “Come Together” by The Beatles. The song isn’t prerecorded. Robots are really, independently playing music.
The next time you use a urinal at U Penn, think of Michael Zinman
“The relief you are now experiencing is made possible by a gift from Michael Zinman,” says a steel plaque set at eye-level for any man voiding his bladder at the library.
Philly man indicted for forging court paper that freed him from prison
He was supposed to be transfered from state to federal prison for filing fake tax documents while in jail. Instead, authorities got a document saying to let him go.
Lansdowne man charged with using Twitter to threaten rape and murder
The first of five tweets said, “I know your routine, I know where you live, and I am going to rape you senseless … then come for [the victim's son's name]. Good luck.”
Sleepless in America – the University of Pennsylvania draws a map
One possible factor for states with the most sleep problems: They also have high rates of obesity. Believe it or not, that could be good news for Philadelphia.
Wharton School at Penn rewards three people who made huge mistakes
Oops, and eureka. If these three people hadn’t made those mistakes, they wouldn’t have just won a contest at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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