{"podcast":{"title":"I Can’t Sleep","slug":"i-can-t-sleep-7771740","podcast_index_feed_id":7771740,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6913380/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-can-t-sleep--6913380","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f84190b8f9025174f328d2b0f0cd8a4b.jpg","author":"ju","episode_count":556,"summary":"Trouble sleeping? You could count sheep, or let I Can’t Sleep do the heavy yawning for you. Host Benjamin Boster reads slow-paced, fact-filled content on science, history, and everyday oddities with zero plot twists and even less urgency. It’s calm. It’s consistent. And yes, you might accidentally learn something. So get comfy, press play, and let your brain wander off without you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T04:18:31.435951+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-can-t-sleep-7771740"},"episode":{"title":"Fractals | Learn About Infinite Patterns to Help You Sleep","slug":"fractals-learn-about-infinite-patterns-to-help-you-sleep","published_at":"2026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-can-t-sleep-7771740/fractals-learn-about-infinite-patterns-to-help-you-sleep","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-can-t-sleep-7771740","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/fractals-learn-about-infinite-patterns-to-help-you-sleep--71600597","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71600597/glss2474043790.mp3","summary":"Can’t sleep, and your brain has decided now is the perfect time for geometry? Great. In this episode, Benjamin Boster calmly reads about fractals, the endlessly repeating patterns that show up in mathematics, coastlines, snowflakes, and other places where nature gets a bit unusual. You’ll learn what makes a fractal a fractal, why self similarity matters, and how these beautiful recursive shapes became such a big deal in math and science. It’s steady, clear, and relaxing, with no whispering, no sudden energy, and no expectation that you need to understand every last equation at 2 a.m. Happy sleeping! Read with permission from Fractal, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Can’t sleep, and your brain has decided now is the perfect time for geometry? Great. In this episode, Benjamin Boster calmly reads about fractals, the end…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1959,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/i-can-t-sleep-7771740/episodes/fractals-learn-about-infinite-patterns-to-help-you-sleep/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-can-t-sleep-7771740/fractals-learn-about-infinite-patterns-to-help-you-sleep.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}