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Still awake? Might as well spend a few minutes learning about the most important substance on Earth. In this episode, we take a slow, steady look at water and how it moves through the planet in a cont...

4 Mai 34min

It’s the tail end of Autism Acceptance Month, and you’re still awake, so this feels like decent timing. This episode takes a calm, steady look at autism, what it is, how it’s understood today, and why...

1 Mai 32min

Can’t sleep and somehow thinking about dogs? Fair enough, let’s talk about poodles, the curly coated overachievers of the dog world. In this episode, you’ll learn where poodles actually come from (hin...

29 Apr 33min

Still awake? Might as well learn how this movie actually got made. In this episode, Benjamin Boster reads about Coraline(2009) and focuses on the production side of things. Henry Selick directed the p...

27 Apr 34min

Can’t sleep, and your brain has decided now is the perfect time for geometry? Great. In this episode, Benjamin Boster calmly reads about fractals, the endlessly repeating patterns that show up in math...

24 Apr 32min

Can’t sleep, so you may as well spend some time with the Romans, who somehow turned roads, law, politics, and organized ambition into a whole civilization. In this calm, steady episode, you’ll hear ab...

22 Apr 33min

Can’t sleep, so naturally this is the perfect time to get into the grand, deeply reasonable mess known as particle physics. In this episode, you’ll get a calm, steady look at the Standard Model, inclu...

20 Apr 36min

Struggling to sleep? Settle in with a calm bedtime reading about elephants, designed to ease insomnia and gently guide you toward rest. This steady reading offers just enough information to keep your ...

17 Apr 34min