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Mud cores, rain gauges, and the hunt for climate data from 2019-10-17T16:15:25
Climate scientist Bronwen Konecky travels to tropical regions around the world gathering evidence of the geologic past. Using data from rain samples and sediments deep at the bottom of lakes, she i...
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Reading revelation from 2019-03-29T17:54:46
Religious studies scholars Elaine Pagels and Laurie Maffly-Kipp discuss the Book of Revelation and how it has been interpreted across time, as well as the personal side of their writing and research.
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Diva Nation from 2019-01-31T19:48:24
Rebecca Copeland and Laura Miller, coeditors of "Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History," discuss queens, goddesses, and the nature of “diva-hood.”
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How good is the US economy, really? from 2018-10-25T17:45:26
Ahead of the midterm elections, Steve Fazzari explores the current state of the economy and explains why widely cited unemployment and growth numbers don't give a full picture.
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Materials through the ages from 2018-09-27T15:00:43
Over thousands of years, by trial and error, humankind has learned how to produce superior materials for different types of processing. Physicist Ken Kelton talks about materials through the ages.
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The Southwick Broadside from 2018-06-25T10:00:05
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 Declaration of Independence known as the Southwick B...
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Saint Peter, According to Mark from 2018-06-04T18:40:59
The apostle Peter was a leader and role model in early Christianity - or was he? According to Lance Jenott, a lecturer of classics and religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis, how w...
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The Secret Lives of Plants from 2018-03-01T16:28:39
Biologist Elizabeth Haswell wants to change the way that people think about plants. What do we know about how plants sense their environment, and what remains a mystery? The answers may surprise yo...
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Frog love and the decoy effect from 2018-02-13T19:51:09
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 frog bachelorette choose, and how does her choice relate to ...
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Becoming a Biotech Explorer from 2018-01-22T20:50:11
A competition for a million-dollar grant leads biologist Joe Jez to creative an innovative program for first-year and sophomore students.
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Amazing Creatures: Cyanobacteria from 2017-12-19T17:47:30
Biologist Himadri Pakrasi, director of Washington University's International Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, has been studying tiny creatures called cyanobacteria for more than ...
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Would you be my neighbor? from 2017-11-16T21:29:22
Using survey data, sociologist Ariela Schachter has investigated how Americans think about race, immigration status, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’ She discusses her process and f...
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How to Create a Musical Monster from 2017-10-26T18:30:41
It’s been 200 years since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the classic tale of creation gone wrong. In honor of the novel’s anniversary – and just in time for Halloween – three undergraduates at Wa...
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Ira Flatow on Climate Change and Science Communication from 2017-10-11T18:00:16
Ira Flatow, host of public radio's Science Friday, describes how and why conversations about global warming have changed over time. Flatow visited Washington University in St. Louis as part of Arts...
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Creators and Copycats: The Business of Fashion in Guatemala from 2017-09-28T20:21:37
In an indigenous Maya community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend. Despite companies' increased efforts to protect their brands against "piracy," kno...
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Moms at Work: Policies and Perspectives in Europe and the US from 2017-09-06T21:13:02
Sociologist Caitlyn Collins frequently remembers a familiar phrase from her childhood. Collins’ mom, a successful sales director, often said with a sigh: “If we were in Europe, this would be so muc...
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How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History from 2017-07-26T14:19:48
Rival families fight for the throne by racking up the body count through political maneuvers, murders, battles, and betrayals. This summation is true as much for the hit HBO series "Game of Thrones...
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Charter School Myths from 2017-04-28T21:40:18
Do charter schools perform better than traditional public schools? Does competition between schools really help students? Ebony Duncan Shippy, a sociologist of education at Washington University in...
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Making Sense of Klansville from 2017-04-06T21:27:58
During the civil rights era, North Carolina was home to more dues-paying Klan members than the rest of the South combined. When conducting research on this chapter of history for his acclaimed book...
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Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality from 2017-03-23T21:31:11
Kelly Harris, a doctoral student in education, uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to identify ‘hotspots’ of childhood asthma in St. Louis. Higher asthma rates are linked with lower income le...
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Right to Work? Unions&Income Inequality from 2017-03-08T19:21:25
Over the past three decades in the United States, the wealth gap between the richest Americans and everyone else has reached new extremes. At the same time, labor union membership has drastically d...
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Inequality at Work from 2017-02-23T19:14:29
In her book No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men’s Work, sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, la...
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Love Music Across Time from 2017-02-08T17:34:41
From today's top 100 Billboard songs to ancient Sumerian scripts, human beings have always sung about love. So how have love songs changed across the ages? Have they evolved to reflect society's un...
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Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama from 2017-02-02T18:54:41
In the 1880s, a new kind of performance became the craze in Argentina and Uruguay. These wild "Creole dramas" glorified country life and the occasionally violent exploits of gauchos, or Argentinian...
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Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story from 2017-01-26T16:58:06
Before film or even audio recordings, audiences across the south flocked to traveling tent shows for entertainment. Under these tents, female performers like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey helped invent and ...
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Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual from 2017-01-19T20:42:13
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. Despite all these elements of the theater, the men were not ...
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Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting from 2016-12-15T18:53:40
When actress Fanny Kemble took the stage in 1831 as Bianca, the pure and mistreated wife in Henry Milman's play Fazio, she astounded audiences with her true-to-life portrayal of jealousy and grief....
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Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'? from 2016-12-08T22:56:53
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 American Song," musicologist Todd Decker explores how th...
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Metabolism: The Google Maps of Cancer Research from 2016-12-02T18:07:38
When you hear the word "metabolism," what do you think about? Thanks to the groundbreaking work of chemist Gary Patti here at Washington University in St. Louis, instead of diet or weight loss, we ...
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Pilgrim Fathers, How The Thanksgiving We Know And Love Was Manufactured from 2016-11-23T15:25:53
Thanksgiving is a day most Americans look forward to, a day of watching parades and feasting on delicious food with friends and family. However, the rosy picture we have in our minds of our Pilgrim...
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A Chemist's Quest for New Antibiotics from 2016-11-14T21:32:25
Remember the last time you were sick and your doctor gave you antibiotics? What might have happened if those drugs didn't work? As antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread around the world, this scenar...
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Social Citizens: How Peer Networks Influence Elections from 2016-11-03T16:20:57
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 making a very personal decision - right? Betsy Sinclair, a pol...
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"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films&Things That Make Us Scream from 2016-10-26T18:47:02
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 do anything to avoid in real life? And are we frightened ...
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Slavery at Sea from 2016-10-19T21:08:32
In her new book Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, historian Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of 18th century slave ships. Here, she shares the tragic st...
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The Hidden History of Trumpism from 2016-10-13T17:49:20
In a recent article in the Guardian, postdoctoral fellow Tim Shenk argues that Donald Trump's rise within the Republican Party has historical - and often overlooked - roots. From an obscure online ...
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A Laboratory for the Social Sciences: The American Panel Survey from 2016-10-05T19:27
What does the average American voter really think about the 2016 presidential candidates? How much do those beliefs depend on things like income, education level, or even personality? With the Amer...
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How to Forecast an Election from 2016-09-29T14:35:13
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 attempt to answer this question, political scientists li...
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Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas from 2016-09-22T16:39:08
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 trip to a remote valley in Nepal, where she works with com...
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Eating Organic in Nazi Germany from 2016-09-07T20:41:07
Eat plenty of raw vegetables. Avoid preservatives. Breads should be whole grain. These may sounds like words of advice from your local natural foods store, but starting in the 1930s, the same messa...
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Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders from 2016-08-31T18:03:51
Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester, now in recovery, studies these conditions as an anthropologist and psychotherapist. She breaks down the most persistent eating disorder ...
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The Philosophy of Cancer from 2016-08-24T20:14:30
In 2009, Anya Plutynski - a historian and philosopher of biology - was diagnosed with breast cancer. Despite all of her experience with scientific research, Plutynski struggled to fully understand ...
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Pain: A Cultural History from 2016-08-17T13:18:47
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 and philosophy of science at the Institute of History at...
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Galen and the Elephant's Heart from 2016-08-03T19:35:09
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 Pergamum. Though his name is not commonly recognized today,...
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The Non-sense of Art from 2016-07-27T16:00:23
For a while now, David Schuman, a fiction writer and the director of the Creative Writing MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, has been interested in--what he calls--"the Void." The V...
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Shame: Friend or Enemy? from 2016-07-20T14:31:55
For some artists, shame motivates them write the next page. Others become paralyzed by it. Today, Stefan Merrill Block, the author of The Story of Forgetting, shares his earliest encounter with art...
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Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff from 2016-07-13T15:22:02
Today, we consider the memoir. Kathleen Finneran, a writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis, talks about her memoir "The Tender Land: A Family Love Story," which focuses on her fa...
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On Plot: Captain Happen and Other Devices from 2016-07-06T16:25:26
Writing is hard. Sometimes when writing fiction, the narrative's momentum sputters to a stop. Charles Baxter, a fiction writer and essayist, shares six quick and dirty plot devices to increase the ...
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Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction from 2016-06-29T15:48:35
"Essay," as a verb, means to attempt or try, and comes from "assay" which is to examine something in order to determine its nature. And for essayist Dinty Moore, this is what nonfiction is all abou...
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Poetic Elements from 2016-06-22T15:00:57
How do you make a poem? Renown poet Carl Phillips finds inspiration for his work in even the every day moments of his life. In this re-release of a 2013 interview, Phillips shares his writing proce...
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Brain Discovery: Bringing Scientists Into the Classroom from 2016-05-04T15:17:44
Most elementary-school students have never met a scientist. Claire Weichselbaum and Brian Lananna, graduate students in neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis, want to change that. Last...
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The Amazing Brain Carnival from 2016-04-27T19:26:58
Twice a year, the St. Louis Science Center hosts a carnival - but you won't find a carousel or a performer doing magic tricks. Instead, at the Amazing Brain Carnival, kids of all ages get to learn ...
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How to Create a Neuroscience Pipeline from 2016-04-21T15:05:11
Back when his kids were in elementary school, biology professor Erik Herzog remembers taking a human brain into their classroom and watching the kids' faces light up with curiosity. Yet somewhere a...
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The Many Lives of Michelangelo from 2016-04-13T19:31:41
What can a single sheet of paper reveal about the complex life of an artistic genius like Michelangelo Buonarroti? William Wallace, an art historian and author of Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man,...
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"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme from 2016-04-06T19:02:21
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare, theater enthusiasts around the world are celebrating the famous playwright's legacy. To learn more about Shakespeare, his works, and the t...
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Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web from 2016-03-30T17:00:09
Most people don't normally associate comic books and superheroes with religion. However, Roshan Abraham, a comics studies scholar and assistant professor of religious studies and classics at Washin...
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Recovering from Stroke from 2016-03-23T21:47:43
According to the American Stroke Association, on average, someone in the United States experiences a stroke every 40 seconds. It's the leading cause of adult disability in the United States. Cather...
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Claude Monet and the Science Of Style from 2016-03-16T19:45:34
When you look at a painting by Claude Monet or Pablo Picasso, what do you really see? Mark Rollins, professor of philosophy and director of the performing arts department at Washington University i...
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Success, Motivation, and the Brain from 2016-03-10T17:50:13
When you form a goal in your mind, and then manage to avoid distractions and carry out that goal, what's going on in your brain? Todd Braver, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Washingto...
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Mapping the Brain from 2016-03-02T19:51:38
Through the groundbreaking Human Connectome Project, researchers like Deanna Barch have spent years mapping the complex wiring of the human brain. Barch, who chairs the Department of Psychological ...
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Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2 from 2016-02-24T21:00:12
Imagine a scene in a movie in which two people are having a conversation. First you see one person talking, and then the other. You see a close-up of some detail, and then a far-away view of the wh...
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Understanding Alzheimer's from 2016-02-17T19:15:46
According to the National Institute on Aging, experts estimate that more than five million people in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, a condition that damages memory and cognitive functi...
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The New Anthropology of Love from 2016-02-10T17:36:04
Love and desire are deeply personal, right? And when we fall in love with someone, it's because there's something unique and innate in them that matches with something unique and innate in us, righ...
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Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1 from 2016-02-03T14:36:50
Ever find yourself crying at a cheesy movie that you don't even like very much? Or catch yourself ducking and flinching during an action flick, even though you're perfectly safe in a movie theater,...
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Violence and Memory from 2016-01-27T22:44:08
How should we remember historical moments of violence and loss? What are the links between terrible events like the Holocaust, the mass casualties of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, and crises ...
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How to Control Your Emotions from 2016-01-21T16:37:49
Are you a "think on the bright side" person, who always has a positive outlook? Or do you sometimes find it hard to control what you feel and how you express those feelings? Tammy English, an assis...
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How to Strengthen Your Willpower from 2016-01-13T21:43:23
It's mid-January, that time of year when a person's zeal to start fresh in the new year might be starting to fade. But don't give up on your resolutions quite yet! Psychologist Tim Bono has some re...
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Remembering Baghdad from 2015-12-10T21:04:04
How do you remember home? Nancy Berg, a professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis, examines this question as it relates to Jewish writers from Iraq. In th...
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Exploring Antarctica from 2015-12-02T21:25:37
Join Doug Wiens, professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, as he describes his explorations of Antarctica. For some fifteen years, Wiens and his colleagues ha...
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Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French from 2015-11-11T20:41:43
In 2015 alone, hundreds of thousands of migrants have fled war-torn Syria and elsewhere and made their way to Europe. While many Europeans have welcomed the refugees, some countries have expressed ...
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The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe from 2015-10-28T15:53:58
In 1487, when the witch trials were just starting to take root in Europe, a Dominican priest published the Malleus Maleficarum, or The Witches' Hammer, a treatise on the prosecution of witches in a...
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When Countries Cheat from 2015-10-22T16:17:48
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, countries enter into more and more international agreements. Tens of thousands of such agreements help form common rules about everything from trad...
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The Human Problem Facing Global Cities from 2015-10-14T21:42:47
In an increasingly global and interconnected world, cities from Chicago to Rio de Janeiro confront similar issues. Where and how will people live as urban centers become both larger and more dense?...
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In A Global Economy, What Happens To Elections? from 2015-10-08T20:58:51
When battling for votes and popular support, political parties across the globe have often chosen to focus on economic issues. But as countries become more and more integrated into a larger, global...
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The Physics of Baseball from 2015-09-30T15:32:30
Ever wonder why some hits feel good when the bat connects with the pitch, while others leave your hands ringing? Or exactly how a pitcher throws a ball that seems to curve just as the batter swings...
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Migration and Change in the Himalayan Highlands from 2015-09-23T22:07:52
High in the rugged mountains of Nepal, communities in the valley of Nubri are confronting rapid changes. In recent years, the majority of school-age children from Nubri leave their villages to be e...
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Natural Gas in the New Bolivia from 2015-09-16T22:01:17
Modern debates over energy and natural gas often center on environmental issues and global warming. Yet in places like Bolivia, where many citizens still use firewood as their main energy source, t...
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An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco from 2015-09-09T18:30:58
Tobacco has been a global industry for more than a century. But in the era of corporate social responsibility, how do tobacco companies justify their push to sell even more cigarettes around the wo...
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A Few Dollars Can Help Girls Stay In School. Here's How. from 2015-09-02T21:22:27
In the United States, a woman's monthly period is rarely more than a slight inconvenience. In places like the Tigray region of Ethiopia, however, the story is much different. There, many girls face...
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Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare from 2015-07-14T19:50:41
Shakespeare wrote a number of strong and memorable female characters like Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Cleopatra of Antony and Cleopatra, but would it be fair to call him a feminist? Not rea...
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Commedia dell'Arte&the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences from 2015-07-07T18:01:42
By now it's clear that Shakespeare drew inspiration from a variety of sources. Robert Henke, a professor of drama and comparative literature at Washington University in St. Louis, studies the Bard ...
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Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition from 2015-06-30T17:05:40
The early modern English theater scene of was fairly small and highly competitive. Playwrights like Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser were friends, but also rivals. They collaborated, imi...
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The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene from 2015-06-24T15:48:11
In 1592, the writer and critic Robert Greene accused the budding playwright William Shakespeare of plagiarism, and this stung the Bard deeply. Joe Loewenstein, professor of English and director of ...
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Getting Lost With Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from 2015-06-17T20:48:31
Curiosity. Obsessions. Serial. Hermaphroditic snails. The “shape” of a radio show. When you sit down with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, creators and cohosts of the innovative, hugely popular pod...
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The Birth of Theater As We Know It from 2015-06-09T15:49:26
While Shakespeare wrote his plays, English theater itself was changing. The first actual theaters like the Globe were built, so companies could perform in places built soley for performance rather ...
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Why Shakespeare? from 2015-06-01T19:13:03
Almost 500 years after William Shakespeare lived and wrote, students are still studying his work, and actors are performing his plays to packed theaters around the world. What keeps us coming back ...
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The Real Antony and Cleopatra from 2015-05-25T16:04:16
After talking with Shakespeare Festival St. Louis about their current production of Antony and Cleopatra, I decided to meet up with Roman historian Karen Acton at Washington University in St. Louis...
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Shakespeare: In the Park&in the Streets from 2015-05-18T16:31:30
Shakespeare is not just in the theater and the classroom anymore. In St. Louis at least, you can find performances of the Bard's work in Forest Park and in the streets of your own neighborhood, tha...
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Horses and Jockeys: The Practical Side of Innovation from 2015-05-14T19:07:20
As managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Emre Toker has encountered many innovative ideas for products and businesses - some of which su...
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Beyond the Medical Breakthrough: How Partnerships Can Improve Global Health from 2015-05-06T21:32:01
As director of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University, William Powderly believes that in order to be innovative and find useful solutions to global health challenges, effective pa...
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Stress and Competition: Does the Research "Lifestyle" Inhibit Innovation? from 2015-04-30T19:17:06
Barak Cohen has some words of wisdom for the future biologists of the world: "If you’re doing this to get rich, you’re going to be disappointed. If you’re doing this to get famous, you’re going to...
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How to Rethink Innovation and Bridge Divides from 2015-04-23T20:56:26
Psychology graduate student Lameese Eldesouky has noticed a trend in research. In some cases, scientists in fields like genetics or biology have an easier time getting funding than researchers who ...
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Graduate Students Ask: Why Does Innovation Take So Long? from 2015-04-16T21:48:33
Ever wonder why innovations in areas like health care and energy always seem just over the horizon, instead of already here? You're not alone. At Washington University in St. Louis, graduate studen...
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A Meeting of the Sciences, from Geochemistry to Geobiology from 2015-04-09T20:58
Throughout our series "Into the Earth," we've heard how Earth science topics cross between different disciplines like geology, physics, and chemistry. This has been true for postdoctoral research a...
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The Politics of Teaching Climate Change from 2015-04-02T19:40:22
Michael Wysession, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences and contributor to the Next Generation Science Standards, continues his commentary from last week's podcast about science educ...
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High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why. from 2015-03-26T17:53:33
Ever wonder why some subjects are taught in high school while others are not, or why students spend so much time memorizing facts? According to geophysicist Michael Wysession, science curricula in ...
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A Volcanic Mystery from 2015-03-20T18:31:13
Aubreya Adams, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, describes the Cameroon Volcanic Line as "one of the most interesting features in Africa that most people have never h...
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Discovery in the Lau Basin from 2015-03-06T18:35:16
Deep under the ocean, enormous tectonic plates push against one another and spread apart. Shawn Wei, a doctoral student and McDonnell Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, wants to underst...
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Stories In Rocks from 2015-02-25T22:39:46
In his rock deformation laboratory here at Washington University in St. Louis, Phil Skemer applies huge amounts of heat and pressure to rock samples. Crushing rocks may sound just like fun, but he ...
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Memories of Chinese New Year from 2015-02-19T17:54:56
For thousands of years, Chinese New Year has been celebrated in the spring to mark the beginning of a new lunar year. Traditions surrounding this festival have varied across time and cultures - her...
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Physics of the Heart from 2015-02-11T20:07:27
Mentioning the word "physics" brings to mind things like gravity, relativity, mass and volume. Rarely do we think about how these principles affect the inner workings of our own bodies. This week, ...
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The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson from 2015-02-05T21:53:37
Before becoming the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a successful lawyer in Virginia. His legal training influenced the way he thought about government and ...
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How to Write a Bad Poem from 2015-01-29T22:55:52
In 1913, Poetry magazine published Ezra Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste." The piece offered would-be poets such memorable advice as "don’t imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than th...
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Theater for Health from 2015-01-22T21:46:26
According to some estimates, just 6 percent of mothers in Peru wash their hands before preparing food. Is it possible that theater could help change this statistic? Art can surely offer personal co...
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Faith and Protest in Ferguson from 2015-01-14T22:23:35
Five months after the death of Michael Brown, the community of Ferguson, Missouri, continues to work toward healing and define common goals - in many cases, with the help of religious leaders and i...
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From the Cutting Room: Predicting Eclipses from 2014-12-23T19:17:09
Dr. Michael Friedlander, professor emeritus of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, describes how using historical writings to calculate when future eclipses will take place has revealed ...
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Digging into Archaeoastronomy from 2014-12-18T17:01:42
The Winter Solstice is on December 21 and marks the shortest day of the year, which was once a very important day to many cultures. In fact, there are thousands of structures across the globe, incl...
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Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam from 2014-12-11T21:57:12
Hayrettin Yücesoy, professor of Islamic and Arabic studies at Washington University in St. Louis, takes us back to the political and theological debates of 9th-century Baghdad. Scholars later claim...
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Does Religion Always Cause Political Intolerance? from 2014-12-04T22:19:14
Should fringe groups, even offensive groups like the Ku Klux Klan, be allowed to have a voice in American politics? Since the 1950s, social scientists have recognized that very religious people are...
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Food and Protest from 2014-11-25T21:34:28
Following the recent grand jury decision to not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting death of Michael Brown, protests and vandalism erupted in Ferguson and nearby St. Louis...
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Way Beyond the Blue from 2014-11-20T23:07:49
Guided by a passionate belief that the arts are for everyone, music professor André de Quadros has conducted research in over 40 countries and, closer to his home base in Boston, for the past two y...
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Being 'Post - Protestant' from 2014-11-06T22:44:07
The results from the 2014 midterm elections are in, and Republicans stole the show. On the national scene, the GOP gained 15 seats in the House of Representatives and took control of the Senate for...
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Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System from 2014-10-23T21:41:41
Going back to colonial times, liberal and conservative Protestants in the US have had conflicting views over both theology and politics. Yet according to intellectual historian David Hollinger, the...
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The Mormon Citizen from 2014-10-16T21:43:30
Throughout much of the 19th century, Mormons were in direct conflict with the US government. Less than a century later, Mormons were often viewed as ideal citizens. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, who is curre...
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God, Oil, and Pipeline Politics from 2014-10-09T19:49:51
In the mid-1960s, construction began on the Great Canadian Oil Sands project in Fort McMurray, Alberta. In part, this massive undertaking was the result of a friendship – that of J. Howard Pew, pre...
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In Birth Control We Trust from 2014-10-02T20:37:12
Long before Hobby Lobby's stance on birth control filled the news earlier this year, beliefs about sex and religion have intertwined with American politics. R. Marie Griffith, a feminist historian ...
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For the Sake of All from 2014-09-18T20:35:28
The recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, has brought the nation's attention to racial and social inequality in the St. Louis region. As principal investigator of For the Sake of All, a multi-discip...
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When Does Victimization Count? from 2014-09-11T21:07:55
As the St. Louis community continues to grapple with the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, Rebecca Wanzo pauses to reflect on Michael Brown and the role of victimization in American culture and ...
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Notes From No Man's Land from 2014-08-21T22:30:36
Here in St. Louis and across the country, it has been difficult over the last two weeks to pay attention to anything other than the ongoing events in Ferguson, Missouri. The death of teenager Micha...
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The Politician and the Poet from 2014-07-23T20:00:04
This episode features two experts: Derek Hirst, professor of history, and Steven Zwicker, professor of English, from Washington University in St. Louis. For decades now, the scholars have been rese...
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Courting the Muse from 2014-07-16T16:39:13
Oskar Kokoschka, an Austrian expressionist painter and playwright in early 20th century Vienna, had a torrid affair with a woman--his muse--named Alma Mahler. When it ended, Oskar was devastated, f...
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Family Histories from 2014-07-09T18:37:52
Today, we consider the memoir. How do authors write about their own histories as well as family and loved ones who might very well read their book? Does time change the way we right about these sto...
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Pranking Emily Dickinson from 2014-07-02T17:35:57
So far, we've considered how authors and historians portray lived-lives in their creative or academic works, but what about creative works from the past? Can they too be "reinterpreted" in the pres...
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Untethered Histories from 2014-06-25T18:27:25
Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? What if much of the story takes place in a dream? How do you keep readers ro...
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A Mirror World from 2014-06-18T15:47:56
History and fiction are sort of antonyms, so how do historical fiction writers bring fact and fiction together? How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasew...
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Brave Genius from 2014-06-11T15:09:09
In the spring of 1940, then-unknown writer Albert Camus and budding biologist Jaques Monod quietly joined the French Resistance as they watched their beloved Paris fall to the Nazis. Decades later,...
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Please Burn After Reading from 2014-06-04T17:49:51
In 1957, Ghana declared its independence from colonial rule, and a new leader named Kwame Nkrumah rose to take the helm. Jean Allman, professor of history and director of the Center for the Humanit...
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Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms from 2014-04-30T20:04:43
Nearly 500 years ago, the Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was first published. Readers across the country and continent began experiencing this epic, historic tale, which is still one...
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What's the Point? from 2014-04-23T18:26:43
The gesture of pointing is something we all do without much thought. We point at ourselves, at other people, at objects, or in the general direction of where we want to go - it's a seemingly straig...
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Language Seen, Not Heard from 2014-04-16T16:21:22
For people who have grown up being able to hear, it's easy to equate language with speech - the audible conversations that make up so much of human day-to-day communication. However, for some 70 mi...
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Behind the Mask, pt2: The Evolution of a Genre from 2014-04-09T18:07:33
Last week, we defined the superhero. However, superheroes have evolved greatly over the last seventy years. The Adam West Batman of the 1960s now only vaguely resembles Christian Bale's Batman of T...
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Behind the Mask, pt1: Superheroes and Supervillains from 2014-04-02T19:02:18
It's hard to recall a movie season in recent memory that hasn't been marked with at least one superhero blockbuster, so we're taking a closer look at these stories and heroes. In the first episode ...
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The Foreign Language Question from 2014-03-26T18:00:50
What do the history of physics, the international women's movement, microfinance, the modern philosophical novel, and the fight against the spread of AIDS in Africa all have in common? According to...
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The Music Of Conversation from 2014-03-19T19:20:46
Whether or not you can play the drums or keep your body in rhythm out on the dance floor, if you're reading this sentence, you're participating in the unheard music of language. In his research at ...
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Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation from 2014-03-12T19:46:39
When you think of the novel Jane Eyre, you might think of its author, Charlotte Brontë, or perhaps certain elements of the plot, like Jane's time at Lowood School or her tumultuous relationship wit...
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Venus, Deconstructed from 2014-03-05T19:56:15
Today, we're going back to 18th century Florence, Italy to tell the story of one museum, La Specola, and its infamous exhibit of gruesome wax anatomical models. At the time of its founding in 1771,...
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Youth Poets Take the Stage from 2014-02-24T22:41:06
High-school students sometimes have a bad reputation when it comes to language and literacy. Teenagers may be well versed in YouTube and social media, but these outlets are more known for shortened...
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The ABCs of Reading and Writing from 2014-02-19T19:08:03
What can parents and teachers do to help young children become successful readers and writers? In what ways does a 2-year-old begin to understand the differences between written words and pictures?...
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You Are How You Sound from 2014-02-12T18:43:31
Imagine that you're walking down the street and hear someone speaking with a British accent. What assumptions might you make about that person based on his or her voice? Would you come to the same ...
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Linguistic Insights from 2014-02-05T19:10:48
To kick off our newest topic, On Language, John Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shares two stories of personal linguistic epiph...
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The Search for Dark Matter from 2014-01-29T22:15:28
As we learned last week in Discovering Dark Matter, since the 1930s scientists have been seeking answers about unseen mass in the universe. We know that the gravitation of dark matter has an enormo...
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Discovering Dark Matter from 2014-01-21T19:57:59
Back in the early 1930s, astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered a problem. Zwicky studied galaxy clusters, which can contain hundreds to thousands of galaxies loosely bound together by gravity. While e...
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Beautifully Bright Black Holes from 2014-01-15T19:17:48
Black holes - pools of gravity so powerful that even light can't escape them - remain some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Yet, though black holes themselves are invisible, the matt...
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Into the Heart of Mathematics from 2014-01-08T20:29:20
As a society, we are pretty conflicted about mathematics. On one hand, we recognize that math has allowed us to achieve some amazing things, including space travel and much of our technology. Yet, ...
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Uncovering Numismatics from 2013-12-18T20:24:04
William Bubelis, assistant professor of classics at Washington University in St. Louis, introduces us to the exciting field of numismatics. What is numismatics? Well, we had the same question. Esse...
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Catching Cosmic Rays from 2013-12-10T15:41:15
On December 9, 2012, a balloon the size of a football field ascended nearly 140,000 feet into the Antarctic sky. The balloon carried Super-TIGER, a two-ton instrument built to detect cosmic rays. D...
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Studying Stardust from 2013-12-04T22:42:47
Christine Floss, research professor in the physics department at Washington University in St. Louis, spends her time investigating microscopic specks of dust that have remained unchanged since befo...
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Lunar Mysteries from 2013-11-26T19:25:46
What questions have yet to be answered about the Moon? Bradley Jolliff, professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, describes how lunar samples and orbiters con...
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Musical Mathematics from 2013-11-20T21:36:23
As both a mathematician and a musician, professor David Wright believes in approaching the world both analytically and artistically. Back in 2002, he designed and began teaching "Mathematics&Music,...
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Irregular Intimacies from 2013-11-12T17:46:57
What do polygamy, prostitution, and pet inheritance have in common? For the final episode of Hold That Thought's 10-part series on American Identities, Adriennne Davis, professor of law and vice pr...
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How Americans Make Race from 2013-11-04T17:50:57
In Argentine tango, the steps that dancers perform - and even the shoes that they wear - tell a certain story about the correct role of men and women in the dance. In her recently released book How...
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Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer from 2013-10-30T15:37:13
In 1913, Pearl Curran, a St. Louis housewife, sat at a Ouija board with her friends when suddenly the planchette went wild under her hands. It said, "Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience ...
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Restless Souls from 2013-10-23T17:30:31
In recent years, many Americans choose to label themselves as "spiritual but not religious." What is the history behind this type of open-road spirituality, and how have Americans' attitudes toward...
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Art and Nationhood from 2013-10-16T18:29:31
What can a painting of people on a porch reading a newspaper reveal about what it means to be an American? Angela Miller, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St. Lo...
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Confronting the Middle Passage from 2013-10-02T16:06:29
In her forthcoming book, Routes of Terror: Gender, Health and Power in the Eighteenth Century Middle Passage, assistant professor Sowande' Mustakeem reveals the forgotten world of 18th century slav...
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Girlhood in Hollywood from 2013-09-25T16:33:42
Miley Cyrus' recent twerking incident aside, young actresses have been struggling with how to grow up in Hollywood since the silent film star Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart," first arrived on...
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Rock and Revolution from 2013-09-11T16:24:02
“Music is too important to be left to the musicians,” ethnomusicologist Christopher Small wrote in 1977. A decade earlier, the experimental rock band the Godz seemed to agree. As associate professo...
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Stripes and Scars from 2013-08-28T15:31:30
In July of 1863, James Pennington, a prominent African American minister and former slave, saw his neighborhood destroyed in a violent episode now known as the New York draft riots. How did this ch...
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Kathryn Davis reading from "Duplex" from 2013-07-31T16:17:05
Kathryn Davis, novelist and the Hurst Writer in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis, reads from her novel Duplex, which will be released September 2013 by Graywolf Press.
The Ghost in the Machine: A Conversation with Kathryn Davis from 2013-07-31T15:34:12
For thousands of years, writers and philosophers have wondered about the animating spirit, or the soul. Many believe it is the part of a human being that lives eternally, that connects us with all ...
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A Room of One's Own: A Conversation with Danielle Dutton and Vincent Sherry from 2013-07-24T15:07:43
In Virginia Woolf's essay, A Room of One's Own, she writes: "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." That is to say, that for most of history women did not have the education, the support of s...
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Danielle Dutton Reading from SPRAWL from 2013-07-24T15:02:53
Danielle Dutton, writer, publisher, and assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, reads from her novel, SPRAWL, which was published in 2010 by Siglio Press.
Magical Realism: A Conversation with Kelly Link and William McKelvy from 2013-07-17T16:08:04
Many of the biggest literary successes in the past decade have involved elements of the fantastic, and we have seen these stories come to life on both the small and big screens: Harry Potter, True ...
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Kelly Link Reading from "The Hortlak" from 2013-07-17T16:02:59
Kelly Link, acclaimed writer of fabulist fiction and a 2013 Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, reads a selection from her short story "The Hortlak" which appeared in he...
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Slippery Nonfiction: A Conversation with Edward McPherson from 2013-07-10T16:55:19
Nonfiction, simply put, is anything that isn't fiction. Easy enough, right? However, in recent years, several controversies have arisen as supposed factual memoirs are revealed to be nothing but a ...
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Edward McPherson Reading from "Dallas: From Afar" from 2013-07-10T16:54:45
Edward McPherson, essayist and assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, reads a selection from his essay, "Dallas: From Afar," which appeared in the Paris Review in Dec...
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Translating Dante: A Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and Jessica Rosenfeld from 2013-07-03T15:59
In literature classes, we often turn back to study "classics" that are hundreds of years old, and while the core message of these works remain intact, the once-contemporary references to politics, ...
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Mary Jo Bang Reading from "Inferno: A New Translation" from 2013-07-03T15:55:17
Mary Jo Bang, poet and professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, reads Canto 3 from her work "Inferno: A New Translation"
A Life in Verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore from 2013-06-26T15:00:05
When tragedy strikes, we often comfort ourselves by saying "everything happens for a reason," and while the veracity of this statement in life is debated, it is always true in good literature. Ever...
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Carl Phillips Reading from "Silverchest" from 2013-06-26T14:56:25
Carl Phillips, poet and professor of English at Washington University, reads from his new collection, Silverchest.
Coming of Age: A Conversation with Anton DiSclafani from 2013-06-19T14:06:11
Adolescence is a difficult transition for many—a time when everything seems urgent and nothing seems certain, when we weigh our family and childhood values against who we are and who we want to bec...
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Anton DiSclafani Reading from "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls" from 2013-06-19T13:46:02
Anton DiSclafani, Washington University alumna and Writer in Residence, reads from her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.
Classical Theater from 2013-06-10T17:11:35
In theaters and classrooms around the world, audiences and students experience the stories and emotions behind plays penned thousands of years ago by writers like Euripidies, Plautus, and Terence. ...
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Circadian Rhythms from 2013-06-03T17:36:09
We've all been there: staring at the ceiling at 2:43 a.m., unable to fall asleep while the world slumbers around us. How do our internal clocks stay synced to our environment? What exactly do they ...
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Up from Rust? from 2013-05-18T06:29:25
In a follow-up to the episode Global Cities, Carol Camp Yeakey, founding director of the Center for Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis, shares her own work and d...
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Retellings: A New Series from 2013-05-15T21:43:12
Creation doesn't happen in a vacuum. Artists and writers find inspiration in the world around them and in the work of their peers and predecessors. Today we offer a sneak peak into the new literary...
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance from 2013-05-13T14:35:01
With the help of scientists like Sophia Hayes, associate professor of chemistry, new technologies may make it possible to remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, turn it into ...
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The Genetics of Bee-havior from 2013-05-06T19:51:28
In the late 1980s, Marla Sokolowski noticed that if she placed fly larvae on a pile of yeast in a petri dish, some would sit and eat the yeast which they sat upon, while others would move, creating...
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Global Cities from 2013-04-30T00:48:33
In an increasingly global and interconnected world, cities across the world confront similar issues. Where and how are people to live as urban centers become both larger and more dense? What are th...
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Last House Standing from 2013-04-22T16:01:59
Between 1950 and 2000, some 60% of the built environment in St. Louis's Old North neighborhood was demolished, and the majority of its residents left the area. Abandoned buildings have fallen into ...
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A Tale of Dual Cities from 2013-04-15T15:15:50
Cities are often synonymous with modernity, but what exactly does modernity look like? In cities with a colonial history, such as Algiers and Cairo, often there are two city centers, two hearts: on...
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City of the Big Shoulders, Part II from 2013-04-08T20:35:41
As the face of Chicago changed during industrialization, so too did its workforce. The city had become a bustling metropolis, but at what cost? Dangerous working conditions prompted the rise of org...
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In the Next Room from 2013-04-01T20:10:17
In the Victorian era, just after the birth of the electric lightbulb, a novel remedy was developed for women diagnosed with a mysterious ailment called "hysteria." In 2010, Sarah Ruhl wrote In the ...
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City of the Big Shoulders from 2013-03-25T23:18:55
During the late 1800s, industrialization transformed cities across the United States. Things most of us take for granted, like sanitation, skyscrapers, and window shopping, were just starting to en...
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Cahokia: Ancient City from 2013-03-18T15:45:32
At its peak around 1200 CE, the ancient Mississippian settlement of Cahokia stretched nearly six square miles, from what is now East St. Louis, Missouri, to Collinsville, Illinois, and included aro...
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The Eye of the Beholder from 2013-03-08T15:57:54
We've all heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but is this adage true? How accurately do romantic partners gauge each other's attractiveness? What personality traits do others find most...
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Hardwired for Love from 2013-03-01T14:52:31
"So a fruit fly walks into a bar..." In all seriousness, finding a mate is an important part of life for almost every species. But how do animals like fruit flies determine what is attractive in a ...
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What's in a Commute? from 2013-02-22T00:46:45
Whether it takes five minutes or an hour, commuting to and from work is an essential part of most people's daily lives. But how do commuting costs, whether in time or money, influence the structure...
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Mapping the City from 2013-02-14T23:05:46
Cities have individual identities, but many of them face similar problems, including unequal access to education, employment, and health services. Often, the solutions to these issues are as comple...
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Design as a Social Act from 2013-02-08T17:08:31
At its construction in St. Louis in 1951, Pruitt-Igoe was hailed as a model for future public housing efforts, but within two decades the area had decayed into an impoverished, crime-ridden neighbo...
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The Many Lives of Apollonius from 2013-02-04T14:26:19
Following his death some 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Apollonius of Tyana was known as a charlatan and magician. A century later, he was considered the embodiment of Greek culture and religion,...
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Weedy Rice and Evolution from 2012-12-28T22:18:07
Kenneth Olsen, associate professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, shares his research into red rice, a weedy form of cultivated rice that is a major problem for farmers in the so...
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"Reperformance" and Memory from 2012-12-17T22:13:54
Is the restaging of a ballet an act of remembrance? Is a performance, by definition, something with a beginning and an end that can't be recreated? Why are works of performance art worth preserving...
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India and Biotechnology from 2012-12-10T22:54:23
India has more hungry people than any other country in the world. Can biotechnology solve its problems? Glenn Stone, professor of sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies at Washington ...
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Antarctica from 2012-12-03T14:28:47
Join Doug Wiens, professor and chairman of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, as he describes his explorations of Antarctica. Dr. Wiens has been using seismographs ...
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Exploring Alzheimer's from 2012-11-26T18:42:59
According to the National Institute on Aging, experts estimate that more than five million people in the United States have Alzheimer's disease, a condition that damages memory and cognitive functi...
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Food and American Culture from 2012-11-19T18:16:12
For activists such as Anne Moody in the Civil Rights Movement, the simple act of ordering food at a restaurant was a dangerous act of protest. Professor Rafia Zafar explores this moment in time and...
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False Memory from 2012-11-12T21:20:19
How trustworthy is human memory? Henry Roediger, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis, describes his research into how and why e...
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Creating a Federal Government from 2012-11-02T18:01:54
In the tumultuous early years of the United States, how did the federal government operate on a day-to-day basis? Who worked for the government, and what responsibilities did these people take on? ...
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Ancient Crops of the Midwest from 2012-10-29T15:42
Dr. Gayle Fritz decribes the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of crops grown thousands of years ago in what is now the eastern and midwestern U.S. These foods, which included a domesticated re...
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Transnational Approaches to Postmemory from 2012-10-24T21:10:31
The idea of "postmemory" cuts across academic disciplines and affects many cultures. To further explore the concepts that Erin McGlothlin introduced earlier this week, listen in to this hour-long m...
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"Postmemory" and the Second Generation from 2012-10-22T14:43:21
How do the memories of one group affect future generations? Erin McGlothlin, associate professor of German and Jewish Studies, explores Second Generation Holocaust Literature and discusses the conc...
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The Donkey Story from 2012-10-17T14:11:21
Dr. Fiona Marshall from Washington University in St. Louis shares her research into the African wild ass, the ancestor of donkeys, and explains why understanding more about domesticated animal spec...
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Back to the Beginning from 2012-10-15T15:16:28
Dr. Fiona Marshall from Washington University in St. Louis explains how knowledge of early food production, especially in Africa, has changed over the last twenty years. For starters, Marshall's re...
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Prospective Memory and the Forgotten Lunch from 2012-10-11T14:33:40
In order to carry out daily tasks like taking medication, attending meetings, and bringing lunch to work, we need to remember to do those things. Professor Mark McDaniel describes his research on p...
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Amnesia and Identity from 2012-10-05T19:07:35
Philosophy professor Carl Craver from Washington University in St. Louis tackles some fundamental questions about the importance of memory. Is it our personal memories that make us distinctly human...
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Agriculture as Industry from 2012-09-27T20:10:15
Professor Glenn Stone from Washington University in St. Louis provides a brief history of industrial agriculture in the U.S., from the first era of hyper-industrialization shortly after World War I...
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Exploring Sustainability from 2012-09-27T19:59:57
Professor Glenn Stone discusses the multiple meanings of 'sustainability' and describes his research into agricultural practices in Nigeria, India, and the U.S. Stone is a professor of sociocultura...
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A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV from 2012-05-18T20:44:43
Learn about this compelling and startlingly modern Pope of the Italian Enlightenment. Created by Tim Lloyd for Hold That Thought, a production of Arts&Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis...
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The Future of Energy from 2012-04-30T18:54:34
As the human race continues to flourish, where will our energy come from? Hold That Thought talks to three scientists who think that algae hold an important answer to this question, as well as an e...
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