Episodes

Tonight, drift into one of the strangest puzzles in modern economics — the resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty. Why do countries blessed with vast oil, gas, and mineral wealth so often struggle while resource-...

Tonight on SleepWise, we drift into the long life of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the United Arab Emirates. Born on a coast that the wider world barely noticed, Zayed grew up among falcons, oases,...

Tonight on SleepWise, we drift slowly into the autumn of 1913, into the brick-and-glass walls of a single factory in Highland Park, Michigan. There, on a quiet floor inside Henry Ford’s new plant, a chain was laid down for th...

Fall asleep tonight with a calm, educational bedtime story about the strange and beautiful mystery of dreams. SleepWise gently explores why we dream, what happens in the brain during sleep, and how humans across history have ...

A calm bedtime story for adults about Spartacus, the Thracian gladiator who led the largest slave revolt of the Roman Republic . Drift back two thousand years to ancient Italy and follow him from the gladiator school of Capua...

Tonight on SleepWise, drift gently into one of the quietest mysteries of human life: the strange way that certain words, spoken aloud at the right moment, refuse to disappear. In this calming bedtime story for adults, we visi...

Tonight on SleepWise, we drift through the true story of Edison vs Tesla and the war that decided how electricity would reach the world. This calming bedtime story for adults covers the invention of the light bulb, the rise o...

Tonight, we drift into one of the strangest and most important stories of the twentieth century — the nights when the Cold War came closest to ending in fire, and the quiet men who stood between the world and catastrophe. Thi...

Tonight on SleepWise, we trace the long, quiet history of espionage — from the informant networks of ancient Egypt and the spy classifications of classical China, through Renaissance Venice and Tudor England, across the battl...

Somewhere tonight a candle is lit before a Shabbat table, a church bell sounds into cold air, and a man bows his forehead toward Mecca. Three religions. One ancient beginning. Four thousand years of reaching toward something ...

Tonight, we drift into one of the strangest and most quietly beautiful ideas in modern science — black holes. Places where gravity has gathered itself so completely that even light, the swiftest traveler we know, leans inward...

Tonight, drift into the hidden code of life with a calm, immersive SleepWise story about genetics and DNA. In this soothing bedtime episode, we gently explore how life passes information from one generation to the next, how i...

Tonight, we drift into the strange and beautiful birth of quantum theory… the moment when physics began to discover that the universe is not perfectly smooth, but textured, granular, and far more mysterious than it first appe...

Tonight, we drift through the long, fascinating history of banking… from ancient temple storehouses and handwritten ledgers to Renaissance merchant houses, Rothschild’s European network, J. P. Morgan’s crisis-room interventio...

Tonight, drift into the strange and beautiful world of relativity theory, explained gently for sleep. In this calming SleepWise bedtime story, we explore Einstein’s ideas about time dilation, spacetime, gravity, light, black ...

Tonight, we drift into one of the strangest and most important stories of the twentieth century — the nights when the Cold War came closest to ending in fire, and the quiet men who stood between the world and catastrophe. Thi...

Tonight on SleepWise, we drift into consciousness... the inner world of awareness through which every thought, memory, feeling, and dream becomes known. In this relaxing sleep story for adults, we explore the science of consc...

Tonight, drift into a calm bedtime journey through the history of oil… from ancient bitumen and natural seeps, to kerosene lamps, Standard Oil, the Texas boom, OPEC, the shale revolution, and the search for alternatives in th...

Tonight on SleepWise, we turn the fast-moving world of finance into something softer, slower, and easier to absorb. This relaxing bedtime episode explores the essential ideas behind investing fundamentals… including saving vs...

What makes a society fair? Tonight on SleepWise, we drift through the long and fascinating history of capitalism, socialism, and the human search for fairness. From feudal Europe and the rise of markets to the Industrial Revo...

Fall asleep to Game Theory 101… a calm, immersive SleepWise journey through the hidden logic of human choices. In this episode, we explore how game theory helps explain some of the most fascinating patterns in human behavior…...

Fall asleep to a calm, thoughtful journey through the sociology of everyday life… the invisible rules, shared rituals, quiet roles, social norms, belonging, loneliness, trust, and human habits that shape ordinary existence. T...

Tonight on SleepWise, we drift through the story of Tucker Carlson After Fox… a calm, thoughtful, and gently told exploration of one of the most controversial and fascinating media reinventions of recent years. This episode f...

Why do empires rise… and why do even the strongest powers struggle to last? In this extended SleepWise episode, we trace the slow and powerful rhythm behind the rise, peak, and decline of great empires across history. From fr...