Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

In this new episode for bedtime, I tell you two great myths from Ancient Greece:

• The Story of Orpheus, the legendary poet and musician, and how he tried to rescue his wife Eurydice from the realm of Hades and Persephone.
• The Story of Jason and the Argonauts, who embarked on the Argo on an epic quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
In these stories we will meet numerous gods and other beings, like Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Athena, Demeter, Persephone, Aphrodite, Chiron the Centaur, Charon the Ferryman, Cerberus, Calliope the Muse, and Medea the Enchantress.

Welcome to Lights Out Library

Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.

In this episode, I tell you about the history of the Phoenicians and their cities (Byblos, Tyre, Sidon...), including the most famous of all: Carthage. I discuss various topics, like the Late Bronze Age Collapse, Phoenician culture, religion, and society, what Canaan and the Levant are, how ancient maritime trade worked, the rise of Carthage and how the confrontation with Rome in the Punic Wars turned out.

Welcome to Lights Out Library

Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.

The Ninth Legion (Legio IX Hispana, also sometimes called the "Lost Legion") had a long history. It served under the command of Julius Caesar during the First Century BC, on the side of Octavian in the civil war against Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and was sent to Spain, Germania, Pannonia, and Britain. In Roman Britain, it fought against rebellions, including the rebellion of Queen Boudica in which it narrowly avoided destruction. But its trace was lost in Northern England in the early Second Century AD, which is highly unusual for such an important unit at a time when the Roman Empire was in good shape overall. Was it destroyed in Britain by Celtic tribes, sent to the Netherlands, or did it disappear in a later conflict in Judea or Cappadocia? In this story, we examine the hypotheses and historical context, which provides a good opportunity to explore what Roman legions were, the conquest of Roman Britain, and other aspects of Roman history.

Welcome to Lights Out Library

Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.

This soft-spoken bedtime story is a journey to the discovery of exoplanets. We will visit some of them, like Proxima Centauri B, OTS 44 and Kepler 438b. I will also tell you about the different types of planets and stars, including stars that no longer shine like old white dwarfs or neutron stars; methods to discover planets that are invisible from Earth, like Transit Photometry or Doppler Spectroscopy; and astrobiology: the field of research that studies the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

05:31 The Search for Exoplanets  Departure to Proxima Centauri B
08:45 Transit Photometry
11:27 Radial Velocity and Doppler Spectroscopy
18:06 Other Exoplanets Search Methods
20:53 Proxima Centauri B Visit and Stellar Wind
25:20 Habitable Zone
29:51 Departure to OTS44 and  Typology of Planets
38:58 Occurrence of the most common elements in the universe
42:33 OTS 44 and  Typology of Stars
42:33 The Death of Stars, White Dwarfs, Supernovas, and  Typology of Stars
57:10 Kepler 438b, Astrobiology, and Panspermia
1:08:03 Conclusion

Welcome to Lights Out Library

Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.

In these bedtime stories, I tell you three different myths from Ancient Greece:

• The story of Perseus, how he was conceived by Zeus and Danaë, went on an adventure to cut off the head of Medusa the Gorgon, and rescued Andromeda.
• The myth of the Labyrinth, built in Crete by Daedalus for King Minos to contain the Minotaur, and how Theseus slew it with the help of Ariadne.
• The myth of Prometheus, who stole the secret of fire to give it to mankind and was punished for it.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

03:14 Perseus and Medusa
33:23 Theseus and the Minotaur
48:17 Prometheus

Welcome to Lights Out Library

Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style stories read in a calming voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep.