Strange Life, Slowly Explained for Sleep
from Sandman Science Hosted by Sandman Science
Tonight, drift slowly down through the strangest life on Earth: a forest that is one single tree, the water bear that survived open space, the frog that freezes solid every winter, the octopus that thinks with its arms, the jellyfish that grows young again, a shark that may be four hundred years old, the glowing creatures of the deep, and finally the quiet life living inside the rock beneath the sea floor, narrated softly over calm music to help you fall asleep. Dim the lights, lower the volume, and let yourself drift. Chapters 0:00 Where We Begin 1:49 The Forest That Is One Tree 3:31 The Oldest Tree 4:55 The Largest Living Thing 6:27 The Brainless Problem-Solver 8:12 The Water Bear 9:58 The Frog That Freezes 11:44 The Sloth's Garden 13:21 The Bird That Copies Everything 14:55 The Animal Nobody Believed 16:28 The Animal That Does Not Grow Old 18:10 The Longest Journey 19:44 The Journey of Four Generations 21:17 The Animal That Grows Back 22:53 The Fish That Waits for Rain 24:38 The Eel That Is Not an Eel 26:15 The Sisters Without Brothers 27:57 The Animal That Sees More Colours 29:32 The Mind in the Arms 31:02 The Shape-Shifter 32:36 The Turtle's Map 34:06 The Jellyfish That Grows Young 35:50 The Heaviest Bony Fish 37:30 The Largest Animal That Has Ever Lived 39:03 The Whale With Old Harpoons 40:31 The Oldest Shark 41:53 Into the Twilight 43:29 The Sea That Glows 44:55 The Longest Animal 46:37 The Gentle Vampire 48:21 The Fish With a See-Through Head 49:54 The Giant Squid 51:36 The Fish That Carries a Lantern 53:12 The Whale Fall 54:59 Life Without the Sun 56:44 The Snail With Iron Armour 58:10 The Deepest Fish 59:50 The Giant Single Cells 1:01:34 The Microbe That Lives Alone 1:03:27 The Sleepers Beneath the Sea 1:05:12 The Hidden Half 1:09:21 Ambient Tail (Music Only) About Sandman Science Slow, gentle journeys through the universe and the natural world, narrated calmly over soft original music, made for falling asleep and quiet minds. New journeys added regularly. Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-tDS-Kji6ho Best experienced at a low volume, as you fall asleep. Sources for the science in this episode: the natural history here follows published, widely reported research: Pando and the Malheur honey fungus, the Methuselah bristlecone pine, Physarum slime-mould maze and Tokyo-network experiments, tardigrades in space (FOTON-M3) and revived after 30 years, freeze-tolerant Alaskan wood frogs, naked mole-rat longevity and anoxia tolerance, Arctic tern tracking, monarch migration, axolotl regeneration, the South American lungfish genome, Electrophorus voltai, bdelloid rotifers revived from permafrost, mantis shrimp vision, octopus neuroscience, the mimic octopus, Turritopsis dohrnii, the Azores ocean sunfish, blue whale heart rates, bowhead and Greenland shark age estimates, Monterey Bay bioluminescence surveys, the Ningaloo giant siphonophore, the vampire squid, the barreleye, the 2012 giant squid footage, Osedax, the 1977 Galapagos vents, the scaly-foot snail, the 8,336 m snailfish, Mariana Trench xenophyophores, Desulforudis audaxviator, 100-million-year-old seafloor microbes and the Deep Carbon Observatory. Estimates are presented as estimates throughout. These videos are for relaxation and sleep. They are not medical advice or a treatment for insomnia or any health condition. Music and scripts are original to Sandman Science. Narration is an AI voice.
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Tonight, drift slowly down through the strangest life on Earth: a forest that is one single tree, the water bear that survived open space, the frog that freezes solid every winter, the octopus that thinks with its arms, the jellyfish that grows young again, a shark that may be four hundred years old, the glowing creatures of the deep, and finally the quiet life living inside the rock beneath the sea floor, narrated softly over calm music to help you fall asleep.
Chapters
- 0:00 Where We Begin
- 1:49 The Forest That Is One Tree
- 3:31 The Oldest Tree
- 4:55 The Largest Living Thing
- 6:27 The Brainless Problem-Solver
- 8:12 The Water Bear
- 9:58 The Frog That Freezes
- 11:44 The Sloth's Garden
- 13:21 The Bird That Copies Everything
- 14:55 The Animal Nobody Believed
- 16:28 The Animal That Does Not Grow Old
- 18:10 The Longest Journey
- 19:44 The Journey of Four Generations
- 21:17 The Animal That Grows Back
- 22:53 The Fish That Waits for Rain
- 24:38 The Eel That Is Not an Eel
- 26:15 The Sisters Without Brothers
- 27:57 The Animal That Sees More Colours
- 29:32 The Mind in the Arms
- 31:02 The Shape-Shifter
- 32:36 The Turtle's Map
- 34:06 The Jellyfish That Grows Young
- 35:50 The Heaviest Bony Fish
- 37:30 The Largest Animal That Has Ever Lived
- 39:03 The Whale With Old Harpoons
- 40:31 The Oldest Shark
- 41:53 Into the Twilight
- 43:29 The Sea That Glows
- 44:55 The Longest Animal
- 46:37 The Gentle Vampire
- 48:21 The Fish With a See-Through Head
- 49:54 The Giant Squid
- 51:36 The Fish That Carries a Lantern
- 53:12 The Whale Fall
- 54:59 Life Without the Sun
- 56:44 The Snail With Iron Armour
- 58:10 The Deepest Fish
- 59:50 The Giant Single Cells
- 1:01:34 The Microbe That Lives Alone
- 1:03:27 The Sleepers Beneath the Sea
- 1:05:12 The Hidden Half
- 1:09:21 Ambient Tail (Music Only)
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