Myers-Briggs | Can't Sleep? Learn About Personality Types
Can’t sleep? Great, let’s sort humanity into tidy little personality boxes and see how that goes. In this episode, we read about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, including its origins, personality pre...
6 Maj 30min
Water | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Molecule That Makes All Life on Earth Possible
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 Maj 34min
Autism | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Autism Spectrum and Neurodiversity
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 Maj 32min
Poodles | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Misunderstood Genius Dog Breed
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
Coraline | Can't Sleep? Learn How This Stop-Motion Movie Was Made
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
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
