Hold That Thought

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Hold That Thought brings you research and ideas from Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Throughout the year we select a few topics to explore and then bring together thoughtful commentary on those topics from a variety of experts and sources. Be sure to subscribe!

Episode Date
Mud cores, rain gauges, and the hunt for climate data
Oct 17, 2019
Reading revelation
Mar 29, 2019
Diva Nation
Jan 31, 2019
How good is the US economy, really?
Oct 25, 2018
Materials through the ages
Sep 27, 2018
The Southwick Broadside
Jun 25, 2018
Saint Peter, According to Mark
Jun 04, 2018
The Secret Lives of Plants
Mar 01, 2018
Frog love and the decoy effect
Feb 13, 2018
Becoming a Biotech Explorer
Jan 22, 2018
Amazing Creatures: Cyanobacteria
Dec 19, 2017
Would you be my neighbor?
Nov 16, 2017
How to Create a Musical Monster
Oct 26, 2017
Ira Flatow on Climate Change and Science Communication
Oct 11, 2017
Creators and Copycats: The Business of Fashion in Guatemala
Sep 28, 2017
Moms at Work: Policies and Perspectives in Europe and the US
Sep 06, 2017
How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History
Jul 26, 2017
Charter School Myths
Apr 28, 2017
High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why.
Apr 20, 2017
Making Sense of Klansville
Apr 06, 2017
Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality
Mar 23, 2017
Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality
Mar 08, 2017
Inequality at Work
Feb 23, 2017
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Feb 16, 2017
Love Music Across Time
Feb 08, 2017
Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama
Feb 02, 2017
Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
Jan 26, 2017
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual
Jan 19, 2017
Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting
Dec 15, 2016
Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?
Dec 08, 2016
Metabolism: The Google Maps of Cancer Research
Dec 02, 2016
Pilgrim Fathers, How The Thanksgiving We Know And Love Was Manufactured
Nov 23, 2016
A Chemist's Quest for New Antibiotics
Nov 14, 2016
Social Citizens: How Peer Networks Influence Elections
Nov 03, 2016
"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films & Things That Make Us Scream
Oct 26, 2016
Slavery at Sea
Oct 19, 2016
The Hidden History of Trumpism
Oct 13, 2016
A Laboratory for the Social Sciences: The American Panel Survey
Oct 05, 2016
How to Forecast an Election
Sep 29, 2016
Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas
Sep 22, 2016
Theater for Health
Sep 15, 2016
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
Sep 07, 2016
Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders
Aug 31, 2016
The Philosophy of Cancer
Aug 24, 2016
Pain: A Cultural History
Aug 17, 2016
Venus, Deconstructed
Aug 10, 2016
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
Aug 03, 2016
The Non-sense of Art
Jul 27, 2016
Shame: Friend or Enemy?
Jul 20, 2016
Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff
Jul 13, 2016
On Plot: Captain Happen and Other Devices
Jul 06, 2016
Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction
Jun 29, 2016
Poetic Elements
Jun 22, 2016
Circadian Rhythms
May 12, 2016
Brain Discovery: Bringing Scientists Into the Classroom
May 04, 2016
The Amazing Brain Carnival
Apr 27, 2016
How to Create a Neuroscience Pipeline
Apr 21, 2016
The Many Lives of Michelangelo
Apr 13, 2016
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme
Apr 06, 2016
Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
Mar 30, 2016
Recovering from Stroke
Mar 23, 2016
Claude Monet and the Science Of Style
Mar 16, 2016
Success, Motivation, and the Brain
Mar 10, 2016
Mapping the Brain
Mar 02, 2016
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2
Feb 24, 2016
Understanding Alzheimer's
Feb 17, 2016
The New Anthropology of Love
Feb 10, 2016
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1
Feb 03, 2016
Violence and Memory
Jan 27, 2016
How to Control Your Emotions
Jan 21, 2016
How to Strengthen Your Willpower
Jan 13, 2016
Remembering Baghdad
Dec 10, 2015
Exploring Antarctica
Dec 02, 2015
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love Was Manufactured
Nov 18, 2015
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
Nov 11, 2015
India and Biotechnology
Nov 04, 2015
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe
Oct 28, 2015
When Countries Cheat
Oct 22, 2015
The Human Problem Facing Global Cities
Oct 14, 2015
In A Global Economy, What Happens To Elections?
Oct 08, 2015
The Physics of Baseball
Sep 30, 2015
Migration and Change in the Himalayan Highlands
Sep 23, 2015
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
Sep 16, 2015
An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco
Sep 09, 2015
A Few Dollars Can Help Girls Stay In School. Here's How.
Sep 02, 2015
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean theme
Jul 21, 2015
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
Jul 14, 2015
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
Jul 07, 2015
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
Jun 30, 2015
The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
Jun 24, 2015
Getting Lost With Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
Jun 17, 2015
The Birth of Theater As We Know It
Jun 09, 2015
Why Shakespeare?
Jun 01, 2015
The Real Antony and Cleopatra
May 25, 2015
Shakespeare: In the Park & in the Streets
May 18, 2015
Horses and Jockeys: The Practical Side of Innovation
May 14, 2015
Beyond the Medical Breakthrough: How Partnerships Can Improve Global Health
May 06, 2015
Stress and Competition: Does the Research "Lifestyle" Inhibit Innovation?
Apr 30, 2015
How to Rethink Innovation and Bridge Divides
Apr 23, 2015
Graduate Students Ask: Why Does Innovation Take So Long?
Apr 16, 2015
A Meeting of the Sciences, from Geochemistry to Geobiology
Apr 09, 2015
The Politics of Teaching Climate Change
Apr 02, 2015
High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why.
Mar 26, 2015
A Volcanic Mystery
Mar 20, 2015
Discovery in the Lau Basin
Mar 06, 2015
Stories In Rocks
Feb 25, 2015
Memories of Chinese New Year
Feb 19, 2015
Physics of the Heart
Feb 11, 2015
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Feb 05, 2015
How to Write a Bad Poem
Jan 29, 2015
Theater for Health
Jan 22, 2015
Faith and Protest in Ferguson
Jan 14, 2015
From the Cutting Room: Predicting Eclipses
Dec 23, 2014
Digging into Archaeoastronomy
Dec 18, 2014
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
Dec 11, 2014
Does Religion Always Cause Political Intolerance?
Dec 04, 2014
Food and Protest
Nov 25, 2014
Way Beyond the Blue
Nov 20, 2014
Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?
Nov 12, 2014
Being 'Post - Protestant'
Nov 06, 2014
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in early modern Europe
Oct 29, 2014
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
Oct 23, 2014
The Mormon Citizen
Oct 16, 2014
God, Oil, and Pipeline Politics
Oct 09, 2014
In Birth Control We Trust
Oct 02, 2014
For the Sake of All
Sep 18, 2014
When Does Victimization Count?
Sep 11, 2014
Stripes and Scars
Sep 05, 2014
How Americans Make Race
Aug 27, 2014
Notes From No Man's Land
Aug 21, 2014
The Politician and the Poet
Jul 23, 2014
Courting the Muse
Jul 16, 2014
Family Histories
Jul 09, 2014
Pranking Emily Dickinson
Jul 02, 2014
Untethered Histories
Jun 25, 2014
A Mirror World
Jun 18, 2014
Brave Genius
Jun 11, 2014
Please Burn After Reading
Jun 04, 2014
Creating a Federal Government
May 28, 2014
Amnesia and Identity
May 21, 2014
Agriculture as Industry
May 14, 2014
Last House Standing
May 07, 2014
Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Apr 30, 2014
What's the Point?
Apr 23, 2014
Language Seen, Not Heard
Apr 16, 2014
Behind the Mask, pt2: The Evolution of a Genre
Apr 09, 2014
Behind the Mask, pt1: Superheroes and Supervillains
Apr 02, 2014
The Foreign Language Question
Mar 26, 2014
The Music Of Conversation
Mar 19, 2014
Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
Mar 12, 2014
Venus, Deconstructed
Mar 05, 2014
Youth Poets Take the Stage
Feb 24, 2014
The ABCs of Reading and Writing
Feb 19, 2014
You Are How You Sound
Feb 12, 2014
Linguistic Insights
Feb 05, 2014
The Search for Dark Matter
Jan 29, 2014
Discovering Dark Matter
Jan 21, 2014
Beautifully Bright Black Holes
Jan 15, 2014
Into the Heart of Mathematics
Jan 08, 2014
Uncovering Numismatics
Dec 18, 2013
Catching Cosmic Rays
Dec 10, 2013
Studying Stardust
Dec 04, 2013
Lunar Mysteries
Nov 26, 2013
Musical Mathematics
Nov 20, 2013
Irregular Intimacies
Nov 12, 2013
How Americans Make Race
Nov 04, 2013
Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer
Oct 30, 2013
Restless Souls
Oct 23, 2013
Art and Nationhood
Oct 16, 2013
FB Eyes
Oct 09, 2013
Confronting the Middle Passage
Oct 02, 2013
Girlhood in Hollywood
Sep 25, 2013
Notes from No Man's Land
Sep 18, 2013
Rock and Revolution
Sep 11, 2013
Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?
Sep 04, 2013
Stripes and Scars
Aug 28, 2013
Kathryn Davis reading from "Duplex"
Jul 31, 2013
The Ghost in the Machine: A Conversation with Kathryn Davis
Jul 31, 2013
A Room of One's Own: A Conversation with Danielle Dutton and Vincent Sherry
Jul 24, 2013
Danielle Dutton Reading from SPRAWL
Jul 24, 2013
Magical Realism: A Conversation with Kelly Link and William McKelvy
Jul 17, 2013
Kelly Link Reading from "The Hortlak"
Jul 17, 2013
Slippery Nonfiction: A Conversation with Edward McPherson
Jul 10, 2013
Edward McPherson Reading from "Dallas: From Afar"
Jul 10, 2013
Translating Dante: A Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and Jessica Rosenfeld
Jul 03, 2013
Mary Jo Bang Reading from "Inferno: A New Translation"
Jul 03, 2013
A Life in Verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore
Jun 26, 2013
Carl Phillips Reading from "Silverchest"
Jun 26, 2013
Coming of Age: A Conversation with Anton DiSclafani
Jun 19, 2013
Anton DiSclafani Reading from "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"
Jun 19, 2013
Classical Theater
Jun 10, 2013
Circadian Rhythms
Jun 03, 2013
Up from Rust?
May 18, 2013
Retellings: A New Series
May 15, 2013
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
May 13, 2013
The Genetics of Bee-havior
May 06, 2013
Global Cities
Apr 30, 2013
Last House Standing
Apr 22, 2013
A Tale of Dual Cities
Apr 15, 2013
City of the Big Shoulders, Part II
Apr 08, 2013
In the Next Room
Apr 01, 2013
City of the Big Shoulders
Mar 25, 2013
Cahokia: Ancient City
Mar 18, 2013
The Eye of the Beholder
Mar 08, 2013
Hardwired for Love
Mar 01, 2013
What's in a Commute?
Feb 22, 2013
Mapping the City
Feb 14, 2013
Design as a Social Act
Feb 08, 2013
The Many Lives of Apollonius
Feb 04, 2013
Weedy Rice and Evolution
Dec 28, 2012
"Reperformance" and Memory
Dec 17, 2012
India and Biotechnology
Dec 10, 2012
Antarctica
Dec 03, 2012
Exploring Alzheimer's
Nov 26, 2012
Food and American Culture
Nov 19, 2012
False Memory
Nov 12, 2012
Creating a Federal Government
Nov 02, 2012
Ancient Crops of the Midwest
Oct 29, 2012
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
Oct 24, 2012
"Postmemory" and the Second Generation
Oct 22, 2012
The Donkey Story
Oct 17, 2012
Back to the Beginning
Oct 15, 2012
Prospective Memory and the Forgotten Lunch
Oct 11, 2012
Amnesia and Identity
Oct 05, 2012
Agriculture as Industry
Sep 27, 2012
Exploring Sustainability
Sep 27, 2012
A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV
May 18, 2012
The Future of Energy
Apr 30, 2012