Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMeditations, by Marcus Aurelius, Part 4
For our Four-Year Anniversary (wow!), let's relax and sleep with more from Marcus Aurelius, including some thoughts about smelly armpits. Hey, person…
3 years, 10 months ago
Spices, Their Histories, Part 2
Let's relax with more from one of our most requested books, hear the histories of ginger, mustard, nutmeg, and mace, and learn how to fake them all. …
3 years, 10 months ago
Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 2
We're back from break! Let's relax with more from a 19th century guide to running away to the country. This time, we buy a farm, fight peach worms, a…
3 years, 10 months ago
Relaxation Rewind! Science Primers, by Thomas Henry Huxley, Part 1
In this remastered episode, let's relax and sleep with this intro to science basics from one of the 19th century's greatest science champions. Also, …
3 years, 10 months ago
Relaxation Rewind! Bad Drains and How to Test Them, Part 1
In this remastered episode, let's relax with practical advice about modern plumbing systems. And by modern, I mean 19th century. Indoor plumbing has …
3 years, 11 months ago
Relaxation Rewind! A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir, Part 1
In this newly remastered episode, let's rest beneath the trees with one of the first environmentalists. His relaxed rambles from Indiana to Florida c…
3 years, 11 months ago
Relaxation Rewind! The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, Part 1
In this newly remastered episode, rule over sleep with the pithy prose of Machiavelli. But first, a very long introduction to our author and the twis…
3 years, 11 months ago
Relaxation Rewind! The Color of a Great City, by Theodore Dreiser, Part 1
In this newly remastered episode, let's journey back to New York City in the early 1900s with one of America's great writers and his dreamy portrait …
3 years, 11 months ago
Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 3
Let's return to this manual of manners, and learn how to pay a check, walk down a theater aisle, and navigate the social complexities of the opera bo…
4 years ago
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan, Part 2
Let's sink into the fields of sleep with more from this lovely and informative book on the varied beauty of wildflowers. A few may smell of corpses, …
4 years ago