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Textbook Sleep #53: Psychology of the Stock Market (opens the original)
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Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid, where we read aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.In this episode we’ll read aloud selections from Psychology of the Stock Market by G. C. Selden, published by Ticker Publishing Company in 1912. Subjects may include “The Speculative Cycle,” “The Panic and the Boom,” and a chapter mysteriously titled, “They”—“They” being put in quotation marks.As human nature has not changed terribly much since 1912, some or even
Forget the Wheel. This New Toaster Is Humankind’s Greatest Invention. (opens the original)
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Textbook Sleep #52: French Painting (opens the original)
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Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid, where we read aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.In this episode we again explore A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John C. Van Dyke, first published in 1894. This time, we’ll be reading about painting in 19th-century France. I don’t need to tell you that this is one of the most glorious centuries of painting ever and many of the big names—Manet, Degas, Cassatt, Monet—were working in France.So this shoul
More Ketchup Outrage (opens the original)
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Textbook Sleep #51: The History of Painting (opens the original)
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Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid, where we read aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.In this episode we’ll explore A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John C. Van Dyke, first published in 1894 by Longmans, Green, and Company.How can the history of painting be boring, you may wonder. In the right writer’s hands, anything is possible. In fairness to Van Dyke, he purposely keeps his opinions short. He is covering a lot of ground and has no time
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