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Hold That Thought — 228 episodes
Mud cores, rain gauges, and the hunt for climate data
Reading revelation
Diva Nation
How good is the US economy, really?
Materials through the ages
The Southwick Broadside
Saint Peter, According to Mark
The Secret Lives of Plants
Frog love and the decoy effect
Becoming a Biotech Explorer
Amazing Creatures: Cyanobacteria
Would you be my neighbor?
How to Create a Musical Monster
Ira Flatow on Climate Change and Science Communication
Creators and Copycats: The Business of Fashion in Guatemala
Moms at Work: Policies and Perspectives in Europe and the US
How to Sit on the Iron Throne: Power and Violence in "Game of Thrones" and History
Charter School Myths
High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why.
Making Sense of Klansville
Mapping Asthma: The Geography of Inequality
Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality
Inequality at Work
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Love Music Across Time
Good Gaucho Gone Bad: The Creole Drama
Staging the Blues: The Ma Rainey Story
Performing Emotion: Freemasons and the Theater of Ritual
Performing Gold: Fanny Kemble, Modern Banking, and the Evolution of Acting
Who Should Sing 'Ol' Man River'?
Metabolism: The Google Maps of Cancer Research
Pilgrim Fathers, How The Thanksgiving We Know And Love Was Manufactured
A Chemist's Quest for New Antibiotics
Social Citizens: How Peer Networks Influence Elections
"Do You Like Scary Movies?" Horror Films & Things That Make Us Scream
Slavery at Sea
The Hidden History of Trumpism
A Laboratory for the Social Sciences: The American Panel Survey
How to Forecast an Election
Milk at Altitude: Exploring Health in the Himalayas
Theater for Health
Eating Organic in Nazi Germany
Breaking Down Persistent Myths About Eating Disorders
The Philosophy of Cancer
Pain: A Cultural History
Venus, Deconstructed
Galen and the Elephant's Heart
The Non-sense of Art
Shame: Friend or Enemy?
Grief and Memoir: Writing about the Tough Stuff
On Plot: Captain Happen and Other Devices
Voice and Vocation in Nonfiction
Poetic Elements
Circadian Rhythms
Brain Discovery: Bringing Scientists Into the Classroom
The Amazing Brain Carnival
How to Create a Neuroscience Pipeline
The Many Lives of Michelangelo
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean Theme
Religion and Comic Books: A Tangled Web
Recovering from Stroke
Claude Monet and the Science Of Style
Success, Motivation, and the Brain
Mapping the Brain
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 2
Understanding Alzheimer's
The New Anthropology of Love
Your Brain on Movies, Pt. 1
Violence and Memory
How to Control Your Emotions
How to Strengthen Your Willpower
Remembering Baghdad
Exploring Antarctica
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love Was Manufactured
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
India and Biotechnology
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in Early Modern Europe
When Countries Cheat
The Human Problem Facing Global Cities
In A Global Economy, What Happens To Elections?
The Physics of Baseball
Migration and Change in the Himalayan Highlands
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco
A Few Dollars Can Help Girls Stay In School. Here's How.
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean theme
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
The Upstart Crow: Shakespeare's feud with Robert Greene
Getting Lost With Radiolab: A Conversation with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich
The Birth of Theater As We Know It
Why Shakespeare?
The Real Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare: In the Park & in the Streets
Horses and Jockeys: The Practical Side of Innovation
Beyond the Medical Breakthrough: How Partnerships Can Improve Global Health
Stress and Competition: Does the Research "Lifestyle" Inhibit Innovation?
How to Rethink Innovation and Bridge Divides
Graduate Students Ask: Why Does Innovation Take So Long?
A Meeting of the Sciences, from Geochemistry to Geobiology
The Politics of Teaching Climate Change
High-School Students Should Study Earth Science. Here's Why.
A Volcanic Mystery
Discovery in the Lau Basin
Stories In Rocks
Memories of Chinese New Year
Physics of the Heart
The Legal Mind of Thomas Jefferson
How to Write a Bad Poem
Theater for Health
Faith and Protest in Ferguson
From the Cutting Room: Predicting Eclipses
Digging into Archaeoastronomy
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
Does Religion Always Cause Political Intolerance?
Food and Protest
Way Beyond the Blue
Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?
Being 'Post - Protestant'
The Witches' Hammer: Magic and Law in early modern Europe
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
The Mormon Citizen
God, Oil, and Pipeline Politics
In Birth Control We Trust
For the Sake of All
When Does Victimization Count?
Stripes and Scars
How Americans Make Race
Notes From No Man's Land
The Politician and the Poet
Courting the Muse
Family Histories
Pranking Emily Dickinson
Untethered Histories
A Mirror World
Brave Genius
Please Burn After Reading
Creating a Federal Government
Amnesia and Identity
Agriculture as Industry
Last House Standing
Chinese Writing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
What's the Point?
Language Seen, Not Heard
Behind the Mask, pt2: The Evolution of a Genre
Behind the Mask, pt1: Superheroes and Supervillains
The Foreign Language Question
The Music Of Conversation
Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
Venus, Deconstructed
Youth Poets Take the Stage
The ABCs of Reading and Writing
You Are How You Sound
Linguistic Insights
The Search for Dark Matter
Discovering Dark Matter
Beautifully Bright Black Holes
Into the Heart of Mathematics
Uncovering Numismatics
Catching Cosmic Rays
Studying Stardust
Lunar Mysteries
Musical Mathematics
Irregular Intimacies
How Americans Make Race
Pearl Curran: "Ghost"-writer
Restless Souls
Art and Nationhood
FB Eyes
Confronting the Middle Passage
Girlhood in Hollywood
Notes from No Man's Land
Rock and Revolution
Who Should Sing "Ol' Man River"?
Stripes and Scars
Kathryn Davis reading from "Duplex"
The Ghost in the Machine: A Conversation with Kathryn Davis
A Room of One's Own: A Conversation with Danielle Dutton and Vincent Sherry
Danielle Dutton Reading from SPRAWL
Magical Realism: A Conversation with Kelly Link and William McKelvy
Kelly Link Reading from "The Hortlak"
Slippery Nonfiction: A Conversation with Edward McPherson
Edward McPherson Reading from "Dallas: From Afar"
Translating Dante: A Conversation with Mary Jo Bang and Jessica Rosenfeld
Mary Jo Bang Reading from "Inferno: A New Translation"
A Life in Verse: A Conversation with Carl Phillips and Timothy Moore
Carl Phillips Reading from "Silverchest"
Coming of Age: A Conversation with Anton DiSclafani
Anton DiSclafani Reading from "The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls"
Classical Theater
Circadian Rhythms
Up from Rust?
Retellings: A New Series
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
The Genetics of Bee-havior
Global Cities
Last House Standing
A Tale of Dual Cities
City of the Big Shoulders, Part II
In the Next Room
City of the Big Shoulders
Cahokia: Ancient City
The Eye of the Beholder
Hardwired for Love
What's in a Commute?
Mapping the City
Design as a Social Act
The Many Lives of Apollonius
Weedy Rice and Evolution
"Reperformance" and Memory
India and Biotechnology
Antarctica
Exploring Alzheimer's
Food and American Culture
False Memory
Creating a Federal Government
Ancient Crops of the Midwest
Transnational Approaches to Postmemory
"Postmemory" and the Second Generation
The Donkey Story
Back to the Beginning
Prospective Memory and the Forgotten Lunch
Amnesia and Identity
Agriculture as Industry
Exploring Sustainability
A Man of Faith and Science: Pope Benedict XIV
The Future of Energy