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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 thou...
Climate scientist Bronwen Konecky travels to tropical regions around the world gathering evidence of the geologic past. Using data from rain...
Religious studies scholars Elaine Pagels and Laurie Maffly-Kipp discuss the Book of Revelation and how it has been interpreted across time,...
Rebecca Copeland and Laura Miller, coeditors of "Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History," discuss queens, goddesses, and t...
Ahead of the midterm elections, Steve Fazzari explores the current state of the economy and explains why widely cited unemployment and growt...
Over thousands of years, by trial and error, humankind has learned how to produce superior materials for different types of processing. Phys...
This Fourth of July, visitors to Washington University's Olin Library will have the chance to see a rare piece of history - an early copy of...
The apostle Peter was a leader and role model in early Christianity - or was he? According to Lance Jenott, a lecturer of classics and relig...
Biologist Elizabeth Haswell wants to change the way that people think about plants. What do we know about how plants sense their environment...
This Valentine's Day, we bring you a story of frog romance and economics - with a side of math and 1960s game shows. Which mate will the fro...
A competition for a million-dollar grant leads biologist Joe Jez to creative an innovative program for first-year and sophomore students.
Biologist Himadri Pakrasi, director of Washington University's International Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, has been st...
Using survey data, sociologist Ariela Schachter has investigated how Americans think about race, immigration status, assimilation, and what...
It’s been 200 years since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the classic tale of creation gone wrong. In honor of the novel’s anniversary – an...
Ira Flatow, host of public radio's Science Friday, describes how and why conversations about global warming have changed over time. Flatow v...
In an indigenous Maya community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend. Despite companies' increa...
Sociologist Caitlyn Collins frequently remembers a familiar phrase from her childhood. Collins’ mom, a successful sales director, often said...
Rival families fight for the throne by racking up the body count through political maneuvers, murders, battles, and betrayals. This summatio...
Do charter schools perform better than traditional public schools? Does competition between schools really help students? Ebony Duncan Shipp...
Ever wonder why some subjects are taught in high school while others are not, or why students spend so much time memorizing facts? According...
During the civil rights era, North Carolina was home to more dues-paying Klan members than the rest of the South combined. When conducting r...
Kelly Harris, a doctoral student in education, uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify ‘hotspots’ of childhood asthma in St. L...
Over the past three decades in the United States, the wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else has reached new extremes. A...
In her book No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield documents the pervasive and often subtle...
Before becoming the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a successful lawyer in Virginia. His legal tra...
From today's top 100 Billboard songs to ancient Sumerian scripts, human beings have always sung about love. So how have love songs changed a...
In the 1880s, a new kind of performance became the craze in Argentina and Uruguay. These wild "Creole dramas" glorified country life and the...
Before film or even audio recordings, audiences across the south flocked to traveling tent shows for entertainment. Under these tents, femal...
Hundreds of years ago in France, a group of men set up dramatic lighting, put on costumes, read scripts, and acted out a dramatic story. Des...
When actress Fanny Kemble took the stage in 1831 as Bianca, the pure and mistreated wife in Henry Milman's play Fazio, she astounded audienc...
What can one Broadway tune reveal about the history of American race relations? In his book "Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an...
When you hear the word "metabolism," what do you think about? Thanks to the groundbreaking work of chemist Gary Patti here at Washington Uni...
Thanksgiving is a day most Americans look forward to, a day of watching parades and feasting on delicious food with friends and family. Howe...
Remember the last time you were sick and your doctor gave you antibiotics? What might have happened if those drugs didn't work? As antibioti...
When you walk into a voting booth in less than a week to vote for the future president of the United States, you'll be all by yourself makin...
Horror movies have been drawing audiences since the earliest days of film. But why are we drawn to fictional portrayals of events that we'd...
In her new book Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, historian Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of...
In a recent article in the Guardian, postdoctoral fellow Tim Shenk argues that Donald Trump's rise within the Republican Party has historica...
What does the average American voter really think about the 2016 presidential candidates? How much do those beliefs depend on things like in...
It's about six weeks until the 2016 US presidential election, and everyone wants to know: Who will win? Hillary Clinton? Or Donald Trump? To...
Scientists agree that breast milk is good for babies, but E.A. Quinn believes there's a lot more to learn. Join Quinn on a recent research t...
According to some estimates, just 6 percent of mothers in Peru wash their hands before preparing food. Is it possible that theater could hel...
Eat plenty of raw vegetables. Avoid preservatives. Breads should be whole grain. These may sounds like words of advice from your local natur...
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester, now in recovery, studies these conditions as an anthropologist and psychotherap...
In 2009, Anya Plutynski - a historian and philosopher of biology - was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite all of her experience with scie...
When we think about pain, most of us think of doctors or medicine, but Javier Moscoso has a different perspective. As a professor of history...
As a follow-up to last week's episode with Luis Salas on the ancient history of medicine and anatomy, we're reaching into the archives to sh...
What can an ancient debate about an elephant tell us about the history of medicine? To find out, step into the life and times of Galen of Pe...
For a while now, David Schuman, a fiction writer and the director of the Creative Writing MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis,...
For some artists, shame motivates them write the next page. Others become paralyzed by it. Today, Stefan Merrill Block, the author of The St...
Today, we consider the memoir. Kathleen Finneran, a writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis, talks about her memoir "The T...