Sleep Story 208 – Science and the Modern World

My name is Teddy and I aim to help people everywhere get a good night’s rest. Sleep is so important and my mission is to help you get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the backgrou...

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Tonight’s reading comes from, Old Times, A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century. The story is written by John Ashton and published in 1885    My  name is Teddy and I aim to hel...

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Tonight’s reading comes from, The Heart of the Railroad Problem. Published in 1906 and written by Professor Frank Parsons, this book looks at some of the issues that plagued the railway industry in th...

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Tonight’s reading comes from, Hand-book on Cheese Making. Written by Geo E Newell and published by the Michigan Dairyman, this book looks at the manufacture of cheese during the 1800’s.    My  name i...

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Tonight’s readings come from, the Origins of Thought and Speech. Published in 1905, this book is written by M Moncalm. It looks at how thought and speech originated in terms of human evolution.My name...

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Tonight’s reading comes from The filtration of public water-supplies. Published in 1905 and written by Allen Hazen, this book looks at the early days of large-scale water filtration, beginning in the ...

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Tonight’s reading comes from, The Glamour of Prospecting. This book was written by Frederick Carruthers Cornell and published in 1920.  Set in the early 1900’s, you will hear about what life was like ...

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Tonight’s reading comes from, The New Democracy, by Walter Vrooman. Published in 1897, the book focuses on the events leading up to the U.S Presidential election in the year 1900. While I don’t have a...

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