Fractals | Can't Sleep? Learn About Nature's Infinite Patterns
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
Ancient Rome | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Roman Empire
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
The Standard Model of Particle Physics | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Building Blocks of Everything
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
Elephants | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Largest Land Animals on Earth
In this episode, Benjamin reads about Elephants — the history, key details, and the parts most people never think to look up. It's a relaxed reading designed to give your mind something steady to foll...
17 Apr 34min
Hot Air Balloon | Can't Sleep? Learn About the First Aircraft to Carry Humans
Can’t sleep? Yeah, that tracks. Might as well learn how hot air balloons work while you’re here. This episode covers the basics of hot air balloon flight, a little history, and why heating air somehow...
15 Apr 33min
Sound | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Invisible Waves That Fill Our World
In this episode, Benjamin reads about Sound — the history, key details, and the parts most people never think to look up. It's a relaxed reading designed to give your mind something steady to follow a...
13 Apr 35min
Artemis II | Can't Sleep? Learn About NASA's First Crewed Flight Around the Moon in 50 Years
In this episode, Benjamin reads about Artemis II — the history, key details, and the parts most people never think to look up. It's a relaxed reading designed to give your mind something steady to fol...
10 Apr 34min
Mermaids | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Ocean Legends That Sailors Told for Centuries
In this episode, Benjamin reads about Mermaids — the history, key details, and the parts most people never think to look up. It's a relaxed reading designed to give your mind something steady to follo...
8 Apr 31min
