Episodes
Episode 14: Leap Years, Lost Days, and the Quest to Count Time
Episode 14: Leap Years, Lost Days, and the Quest to Count Time | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Deb explores humanity’s millennia-long quest to organize time. Perfect for bedtime learning as you reflect on the passage of time and prepare to celebrate yet another trip around the sun.
Ken
Episode 13: Fires in the Darkness: A Journey Through Winter Solstice
Episode 13: Fires in the Darkness: A Journey Through Winter Solstice | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this peaceful episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, Deb uncovers the fascinating ways humans have marked the longest night of the year.
Ken
Episode 12: Where Roads Cross: The Hidden Engineering of Highway Interchanges
Episode 12: Where Roads Cross: The Hidden Engineering of Highway Interchanges | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, Deb explores the hidden engineering behind structures you’ve driven through hundreds of times without a second thought.
Ken
Episode 11: Soap's Secret Past: Guilds, Wars, and Chemistry
Episode 11: Soap’s Secret Past: Guilds, Wars, and Chemistry | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Prepare for a sudsy journey through 5,000 years of surprisingly dramatic soap history! In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, Deb uncovers the hidden stories behind humanity’s most essential cleaning invention.
Ken
Episode 10: Deep Time: The 4-Billion-Year Story of Life on Earth
Episode 10: Deep Time: The 4-Billion-Year Story of Life on Earth | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
From bacterial mats that dominated for billions of years to the eventual rise of consciousness, this episode reveals the almost incomprehensible timescales of evolution and the remarkable resilience of life.
Ken
Episode 9: The Quantum Century
Episode 9: The Quantum Century | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, host Deb unravels the quantum century. Discover how the greatest minds in physics grappled with a theory that defied common sense yet proved spectacularly successful at predicting experimental results.
Ken
Episode 8: The Art of Invented Languages
Episode 8: The Art of Invented Languages | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Deb explores the art of constructed languages—from J.R.R. Tolkien’s meticulously crafted Elvish tongues to the guttural warrior speech of Klingon, and from the elaborate precision of High Valyrian to languages created for alien civilizations in modern science fiction.
Ken
Episode 7: I, Pencil - The Hidden Complexity of Simple Things
Episode 7: I, Pencil - The Hidden Complexity of Simple Things | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Deb explores Read’s influential essay “I, Pencil” about the miraculous complexity hidden in mundane objects. She goes from the pencil’s deceptively simple appearance to an exploration of supply chains, specialized knowledge, and human cooperation spanning continents and centuries.
Ken
Episode 6: The Hidden Mathematics of Music
Episode 6: The Hidden Mathematics of Music | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, Deb uncovers the hidden mathematical world that shapes every piece of music you’ve ever heard—the fascinating realm of tuning systems.
Ken
Episode 5: Shakespeare's History Plays: Kings, Power, and Political Drama
Episode 5: Shakespeare’s History Plays: Kings, Power, and Political Drama | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, Deb explores how William Shakespeare transformed dry historical chronicles into compelling theatrical masterpieces that still captivate audiences over 400 years later.
Ken
Episode 4: Never Twice the Same Color - The Secret Standards Behind Every Screen
Episode 4: Never Twice the Same Color - The Secret Standards Behind Every Screen
Whether you drift off while learning about phosphor chemistry and color encoding, or stay awake through the digital television revolution, you’ll never look at your screen quite the same way again.
Ken
Episode 3: The Illuminating Truth About Edison's Light Bulb
Episode 3: The Illuminating Truth About Edison’s Light Bulb | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
In this episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds, Deb uncovers the illuminating truth behind Thomas Edison’s most famous creation: the incandescent light bulb.
Ken
Episode 2: The Last Planet: Pluto's Rise and Fall
Episode 2: The Last Planet: Pluto’s Rise and Fall | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Host: Deb
Duration: ~45 minutes
Release Date: August 19, 2026 Episode Summary Journey to the edge of our solar system to explore the fascinating story of Pluto—the distant, icy world that captured hearts worldwide only to spark controversy when astronomers reclassified it as a dwarf planet in 2006. From
Ken
Episode 1: The Great Calculus War
Episode 1: The Great Calculus War | Dormant Knowledge Sleep Podcast
Learn about the fascinating rivalry between Newton and Leibniz in this relaxing episode of Dormant Knowledge, the educational sleep podcast for curious minds who want to learn while falling asleep.
Ken