Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShenandoah National Park | Can't Sleep? Learn About Virginia's Blue Ridge Wilderness
Season 8 Episode 527
Shenandoah National Park stretches along the Blue Ridge Mountains with a road that was basically built for people who like scenic views without leavi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Candles | Can't Sleep? Learn About the 5,000-Year History of Candlelight
Season 8 Episode 526
Candles are simple objects with a surprisingly long history of being useful, decorative, and occasionally dramatic. In this episode, we explore how c…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Myers-Briggs | Can't Sleep? Learn About Personality Types
Season 8 Episode 525
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 Typ…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Water | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Molecule That Makes All Life on Earth Possible
Season 8 Episode 524
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 …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Autism | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Autism Spectrum and Neurodiversity
Season 8 Episode 523
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 aut…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Poodles | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Misunderstood Genius Dog Breed
Season 8 Episode 522
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,…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Coraline | Can't Sleep? Learn How This Stop-Motion Movie Was Made
Season 8 Episode 521
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 pro…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Fractals | Can't Sleep? Learn About Nature's Infinite Patterns
Season 8 Episode 520
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, th…
2 months ago
Ancient Rome | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Roman Empire
Season 8 Episode 519
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 civiliz…
2 months ago
The Standard Model of Particle Physics | Can't Sleep? Learn About the Building Blocks of Everything
Season 8 Episode 518
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 g…
2 months ago