Welcome to Wik Me To Sleep where, together, we follow intriguing blue links through the depths of Wikipedia until you’re sound asleep. Distract your racing mind with semi-interesting content until it becomes so boring you drift away.
Let’s start tonight with Big Radio 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Radio_2), dip into Pythagoras, Proto-writing, Euclidean algorithm, Balkans, Continued fraction, Lunar calendar, Sarajevo, and wrap up with Vegetarianism. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism)
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28 Sept 2023
Theudebald, Duke of Alamannia → Mannerism
Tonight we learned about Theudebald, Duke of Alamannia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theudebald,_Duke_of_Alamannia) then poked through time with Old St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo, Charlemagne, Sarcophagus, Saxons, Fresco, until finishing with Mannerism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism).
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21 Sept 2023
My Little Pony Collectible Card Game → Potlatch
We leap off to sleep with My Little Pony Collectible Card Game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Collectible_Card_Game), looked into Haida People, British Columbia Gold Rushes, Lionsgate, Hasbro, Toronto Stock Exchange, and finished with Potlatch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch).
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31 Aug 2023
Kyeyang Electric → Printing Press
Tonight we start with Kyeyang Electric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyeyang_Electric), visit the 1988 olympics, Italic script, Democratic Republic of Madagascar, Non-Aligned Movement, Imperialism, Seoul, Cartography, and conclude with the Printing Press (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press).
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24 Aug 2023
Kai Lee → Roadster (Bicycle)
Start the ride with Kai Lee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Lee), cruise through Vehicles, Friction, Pendulum, Flying Pigeon, Galileo Galilei, Experimental physics and end with Roadster (Bicycle) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadster_(bicycle)).
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17 Aug 2023
Education FC → Sunlight
Kick off with Education FC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_FC) then weave through hearing about human skin, Somatosensory system, Bhutan, Dugong, the Arabian Sea, and the Himalayas before closing the episode with Sunlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight).
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10 Aug 2023
Greta Linder → Flour
Shhhhh! Tonight we start with Swedish librarian Greta Linder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Linder), jump around through potato pancakes, Halloween, Buckminster Fuller, the Stockholm Public Library, Mensa, Architectural functionalism, and wrap up with that basic food element, Flour. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour)
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3 Aug 2023
HMS Lys → Madison Square Garden
We push off with HMS Lys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lys), and jump around to Spice trade, American Basketball Association, Ethiopians, Age of Sail, before finishing at Madison Square Garden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden)
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27 Jul 2023
Best of Wildside → Tahiti
In tonight’s episode we start with Best of Wildside (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_Wildside), then cover Cultural appropriation, Sweat lodges, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Blackfoot Confederacy, Hallelujah Picassos, and end with Tahiti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahiti)!
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24 Jul 2023
Welcome to Wik Me to Sleep [Trailer]
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20 Jul 2023
The Venetian Twins (musical) → Sedimentary rock
Welcome back! Tonight we began with The Venetian Twins (musical) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venetian_Twins_(musical)) then covered Lake-effect snow, Sydney Opera House, Tug Hill, Floods, and closed with an extremely dry article about Sedimentary rock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedimentary_rock)
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13 Jul 2023
Vyacheslav Lykho → Climate change policy of the United States
Tonight we start with Vyacheslav Lykho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Lykho), check in on chariot racing, satire, Pittsburgh, doping, and wrap up with Climate change policy of the United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_policy_of_the_United_States). Warning, this episode is actually kinda interesting.
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6 Jul 2023
Alfarràs → Resin
Tonight we started with Alfarràs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfarr%C3%A0s) learned about Goths, Cedar, Sake, Catalonia, Mold, Papyrus, and wrapped up with Resin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin). This was a particularly boring episode where I struggled through many pronunciations so I hope you drift off quickly!
Special shoutout to Pliny the Elder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder) who made appearances in two articles we combed through.
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14 Jun 2023
Bear Brook State Park → Norton Motorcycle Company
Tonight we started with Bear Brook State Park, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Brook_State_Park#) touched on Cape Cod, Puritanism, Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language, the Isle of Man TT, Bank Holidays, and more before concluding with Norton Motorcycle Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Motorcycle_Company).
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8 Jun 2023
Arouca (footballer) → Price look-up code
Tonight we started with Arouca (footballer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arouca_(footballer)) and finished with Price look-up code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_look-up_code).
I certainly had some trouble with non-english language pronunciation so forgive the errors and please send an email if you’d like to help me with my pronunciation: wikmetosleep@gmail.com (mailto:wikmetosleep@gmail.com)
6 Jun 2023
Gründler → Socialist Market Economy
Welcome to the pilot episode of Wik Me To Sleep where I follow intriguing blue links through the depths of Wikipedia to inform and distract your racing mind before slowly boring you to sleep.
Today we started with Gründler (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCndler) and finished with Socialist Market Economy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_market_economy)
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