Tea party activists are increasingly turning to music — some of it inspired by protest music of the 1960s and '70s — to capture the spirit of their movement. About half of self-described tea party supporters are 50 or older and can remember listening to AM radio that spun 45s of liberal protest music like Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. Temple historian Ralph Young, a protest music expert, notes tea party music has yet to seep through society, the way the music of the '60s and '70s did.

Last week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, found that healthy men need no longer undergo PSA screens for prostate cancer because the tests don't save lives and lead to harm from unnecessary care. Curtis Miyamoto, chair of radiation oncology at Temple University Hospital, discussed the issues in a Q&A in the Inquirer. "I admit there are excessive screenings for men who will never actually benefit from it, but you cannot make the broad statement that we're not going to do this anymore," he said.

A new Temple program called Philadelphia CeaseFire is using a public-health approach to reducing violence among young men. The program identifies young people at risk of being shot and offers them guidance from street-smart "interrupters" who know violence firsthand. CeaseFire approaches "the whole notion of violence being a public-health issue and looks at it as a disease," said Marla Davis Bellamy, the program's director. Amy Goldberg, director of trauma at Temple University Hospital, said the hospital refers young people who have been shot to CeaseFire.

The Apple II computer developed by the late Steve Jobs used the original 6502 8-bit microprocessor developed by MOS Technology in Norristown in 1975, said Dennis Silage, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Temple. MOS Technology was the only company that would ship chips to Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak because they were essentially operating Apple Computers out of a garage, said Silage. An original Apple IIe is part of the "Computer Museum" in Silage's System Chip Design Lab.