Textbook Sleep

<p>Here’s a question posed by The Book of Wonders, published in 1915: </p><p>“How many have ever given a thought to the question of where rope comes from and how it is made, or realize what a variety of uses it is put...

<p>Watching paint dry—a famously boring exercise. Tonight, we will surpass that level of tedium, by hearing how paint is made.</p><p>Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast. We read extremely...

<p>In the beginning was the word.</p><p>But we couldn’t remember the word, because we couldn’t write it down.</p><p>Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast that reads aloud boring...

<p>Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast that reads aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.</p><p>What a treat we have for you tonight. While in Textbook Sleep #11 we...

<p>Have you ever eaten the king of nuts, the budded or grafted paper shell pecan?</p><p>That’s the grabber introductory sentence of a sales letter in Business English by Rose Buhlig of Tilden High School in Chicago...

<p>Business English is just like English English, only more twisted and tortured and obfuscatory. If you’re good at it.</p><p>Fortunately for our purposes, it is also—almost without exception—incredibly boring...

<p>Have you ever had a hankering to learn about the Codling Moth? The Cankerworm? The Hessian Fly? </p><p>Of course not. They are not only deadly to crops, they are deadly boring. </p><p>In other words, perfect subjects...

<p>Welcome to another episode of Textbook Sleep, the podcast that reads aloud boring public domain textbooks to help you fall asleep. </p><p>My voice is also boring. When I speak to people on the phone, it’s not unusual...

<p>Welcome to another episode of Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid. </p><p>We read aloud boring public domain textbooks to help you fall asleep. </p><p>This time we’ll be exploring Agriculture for...

<p>Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast, combs the planet to find the most boring public domain textbooks to read aloud to help you fall asleep. </p><p>Tonight we continue with one of our greatest...

<p>Well, we have hit the mother load of boring textbooks to read from: A History of Experimental Psychology by—wait for it—Edwin G. Boring, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. </p><p>You would have thought...

<p>The Machinery of the Universe. Hang on, that actually sounds interesting! Not to worry—it’s not. It’s physics, but with an interesting title—academic bait and switch. But for the purposes of Textbook Sleep, the...

<p>Welcome back to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum Strength, aural sleep aid, in which I read from soporific public domain textbooks. Subjects that once put you to sleep in the classroom or library, now putting you to sleep...

<p>Hello and welcome to another episode of Textbook Sleep, the non-prescription yet habit-forming Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid. Time-released every Wednesday night at 8:30 Eastern Time. </p><p>Tonight we continue to read...

<p>Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid, where I read extremely boring public-domain textbooks to help people fall asleep. We continue with General Science by Bertha M. Clark, Ph.D. Specifically...