What's the pitter-patter soothing you off to sleep? The pounding hooves of a herd of Wild Horses. Don't worry they won't wake you, after hearing about icy water and body heat and Quarth a crown of deep sleep will be placed on your sweet little head.

Body Heat | Frozen Myths

Body Heat (Film)

Crown of Sultan Rock? | Crowns

Qarth and the Thirteen

Wild Horses | Lyrics Gram Parsons

Sweet sleep will come fast if you sent aside your desire to understand the difference between a man named “the tickler” and a condom with the same name. Shadows and third persons and Nanotech will flood your dreams will nonsense..but you'll be asleep.

 

The Links

* Do Textured Condoms Increase Pleasure? @goaskalice

* 5 Kinds of Condoms @goaskalice

* Go Ask Alice!

* Me And My Shadow also added to Spotify Playlist

* Jack Frost TV

* 5 Stages of Grief

* Got Graveyard (SPOILERS!!!)

Research from Stacy the Glittering Researcher

There is a failure to match the pace of nanotechnology with ethical consideration of its use. The ethical issues fall into the areas of equity, privacy, security, environment, and metaphysical questions concerning human–machine interactions.  The following is taken from Mnyusiwalla, 2003: ‘Mind the gap’: science and ethics in nanotechnology

NT=nanotechnology

Equity. Who will benefit from advances in NT? Today we

talk of the digital divide as something that is harmful and that

we should attempt to correct. We have also talked about the

emerging ‘genomics divide’ in a similar fashion [23]. This

is because we have come to understand that technology and

development are intricately linked [24], and that what at first

appears to be very ‘high-tech’ and costly and therefore perhaps

irrelevant for developing countries, in the end might come to be

of most value for those same developing countries [25]. Thus

NT, were it to develop in the way it ought, might ultimately be

of most value for the poor and sick in the developing world.

At the Johannesburg summit, the main issues for developing

countries were poverty reduction, energy, water, health, and

biodiversity. NT has the potential to make a positive impact

on all of these if its risks either do not materialize or are

appropriately managed. The poor could benefit from NT, for

example, through safer drug delivery, lower needs for energy,

cleaner energy production, and environmental remediation.

It is also possible that health could be improved by better

prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. One of the biggest

health problems in developing countries is trauma, especially

from road traffic accidents, and absence of rehabilitation

facilities [26]: better nanomaterials for making safer tyres,

or NT-based scaffolds to grow bone [27] may be extremely

important, especially if the promise of mass production at very

low cost materializes. Furthermore, if developing countries

were to see the potential of NT and became early players in the

field (see China’s increased expenditure on NT R&D; table 1),

NT might have an impact on their economic development and

obviate the need quite soon for these countries to become

net importers of NT. This is similar to what is happening in

biotechnology, a field in which countries such as India, China,

Brazil,

What could be more dream inducing than more match and GoT history? What if the mountain sits in for a few segments? We also talk essential oils and celebrity deathmatch all to carry you away on the wings of pointlessness.

Volantis

Listener Erica joins Britney and talks back and becomes a hero (see all the math at the end of this email!)

Ser Lancel

Celebrity Deathmatch

Brotherhood Without Banners

Battle of Oxcross

Gauntlets (and The Mountain sits in)

Essential Oils

 

Links

100 miles and Runnin', Secret Garden, Good Ship Lolipop and Make Me a Higher Love on Spotify Playlist

Caller ID

Bluto

Pete

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“Game of Drones” Only Feed Cover Art by Ken Ackerman

Sleep With Me is narrated by Dearest Scooter and written by Drew Ackerman

Thimbles, Teen Wolves and Terrible Beard Barbers will be the elixir that leads to your slumber. All plucked from this wonderful episode of GoT. Goodnight!

“Will It Go Round In Circles?” added to Spotify Playlist

Strange unlinkable things I talked about or said

“Listen to my senseless banter instead of yours”

Lady Zuriff

“Fantasy Fiction Fornication”

Links

* Smurfs

* Snack- chocolate cookies with white chips

* Ziggy

* Flowers In the Attic

* Insalubrious

* Pee Wee's Big Adventure

* Summer Rental

* Year of the Dragon

* Teen Wolf @wikipedia | @imdb | @rottentomatoes

* Article on a magical 1985 month at the box office

* Npr on Amish Attacks

* Salon on Amish Attacks and Hate Crime

* Leviticus 19-27

* Isaiah 7-20

* Jeremiah 48-37

* Thimble

Research from Stacy the “Glittering Researcher”

Here are some patents that describe improvements made to the thimble:

Publication number US4127222 A

Publication date Nov 28, 1978

Sewing thimble.

An improved sewing thimble having an elongated, tubular body consisting of a pliable material, such as rubber, wherein a plurality of vent holes are disposed about the annular body portion, the inner bore thereof being designed to conform to the average finger, including those having extended fingernails. The forward head portion of the thimble is enlarged with a thickened area of a hard rubber or plastic to allow for forceful engagement with a needle to be threaded. Alternative arrangements include a protective shield embedded within the head portion and a threading-and-cutting device mounted to the thimble at the tip of the enlarged head thereof.

Publication number US4239134 A

Publication date Dec 16, 1980

Flexible thimble.

A new and improved thimble for sewing, particularly a thimble of flexible material; which allows the thimble to conform to the finger for fit and comfort; provides a supple surface to allow the user to actually feel the needle; and provides a protective means located near the closed end of the thimble for covering part of the normal fingertip and fingerp...

Nighttime, night lands all good jumping off points for a sleep podcast. Instead I get fixated on Taylor Swift's “Shake it Off” and keep exploring tangential threads that bring me back there. Don't worry there will be plenty of mind numbing moments to break it up.

Taylor Swift and Spotify

Article about “Sleep With Me” on Matter by Bobby Finger

In an attempt to reduce the super boring over-reliance on wikipedia articles we now have some a “Glittering Researcher” Stacy who is generously helping out. Here's Stacy's outstanding work this week-

Do spiders have hair? (Could be short article)

I'd recommend that you not talk about spiders on the podcast actually since this is one of the most common phobias.  Animal phobias are the most frequently occurring phobias (4.3% of the total population have JUST animal phobias – Becker 2007).  Spider fear has been used in research to examine behavioral approach/avoidance patterns (Rinck 2007).  This was done by asking participants to move a joystick either toward or away from an image of a spider on a computer.  People with spider fear were much quicker to move away from a spider in this way, and much more hesitant to move toward it when asked to approach.  Approach/avoidance patterns are used to gauge peoples' gut reactions to stimuli, as they tend to be a totally non-conscious reaction – they do not need any conscious thought in order to tell the body to move away.  People who have animal phobias such as spider phobia are more likely to also have co-occurring mental illnesses – particularly anxiety and mood disorders, but also somatoform disorders (unexplained pain), substance abuse, and childhood onset mental illnesses (Becker 2007).  That being said, spider fear in particular (as opposed to animal fear in general) is not as clearly linked with other mental illnesses aside from animal phobias (Davey 1991; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08917779208248798#.VGZApfldVqU); a bad experience with a spider is not typically the cause of spider fear, and spider fear is particularly resistant to treatment.

That being said, spider hair is called sensilla I believe. See attached (Barth 2004) for a thorough discussion on how these hairs work.

Temperatures/conditions that cause lethargy and why we get lethargic.

Taken directly from the article (Fakuda 1994) – “Chronic fatigue syndrom is a clinically defined condition characterized by severe disabling fatigue and a combination of symptoms that prominately features self-reported impairments in concentration and short-term memory, sleep disturbances, and musculoskeletal pain.  Recent longitudinal studies suggest that some persons affected by the chronic fatigue syndrome improve with time but most remain functionally impaired for several years.”

I found an awesome fatigue scale that's extremely commonly used to assess lethargy in research.  Here are some of the items:

* I feel tired

* I tire easily

* Physically I feel I am in bad condition

* Physically I feel only able to do a little

* I think I do very little in a day

* I get little done

* I dread having to do things

* I don't feel like doing anything

* My thoughts easily wander

* It takes a lot of effort to concentrate on things.

This scale divides fatigue into several groups: Gen...

The night is dark and full of errors….like Comet or Comment? That is going to be a verbal stumbling block. This will not include heated subtextual interactions between power players, but we will have a long drawn out discussion of of the episode followed by stuff that I read. Hopefully you won't notice as you frolic in dreamland with the old gods and the new.

* House Hollard

* Staple Foods

* Wheat

* Masonry

* Philadelphia City Hall

* Mole Antnonelliana

* Why You'll Never See A Red Comet

* Comet Landing @scientificamerican.com | @space.com | @bbc | Eli5 Reddit

* “Night of the Comet” @wikipedia | @rottentomatoes

* Comets @space.com | @wikipedia

* Liberation Theology (did not make it in) @bbc | @slate.com | @wikipedia

* The North

* Fishwife

* Cocksure

* Sledge

* Rock Tumbling as hobby

Older “Game of Drones” episodes can be found here

Sleep With Me is a bedtime story designed to take your mind off of the racing thoughts that keep you awake at night.

As you listen you will find yourself distracted from your worries and drifting off into dreamland..due to the fact the story gets a little bit more boring with each passing minute.

This podcast is a little weird, a bit silly and a tad offensive so beware. It is very similar to ASMR or guided meditation bedtime story that slowly carries you off to slumber.

“Sleep With Me” is a groundbreaking podcast created to help you fall asleep. So get in bed, press play and drift off into dreamland. If you struggle with insomnia or just getting a good night's rest, you've found the podcast for you.

Just the facts and episode peeled from Don't worry your head over who is going to watch over our Khaleesi or why you breath is visible. For sweet slumber will descend on you and purify your thoughts like an autoclave from the Gods Old and New. Sleep Tight.

 

 

* Limerick

* Why Do You See Your Breath When It Is Cold

* Fake Snow for “Its a Wonderful Life”

* Fake Snow in Movies

* Differnece Between Birch and Aspen

* Pando Tree

* Marillion

* Sterilize Insulin Needle

* Autoclave

* Music on Game of Thrones

* “Someone to Watch Over Me” Song

* “Someone to Watch Over Me” Film @rottentomatoes

* List of Prostitutes and Courtesans

Older “Game of Drones” episodes can be found here

Sleep With Me is a bedtime story designed to take your mind off of the racing thoughts that keep you awake at night.

As you listen you will find yourself distracted from your worries and drifting off into dreamland..due to the fact the story gets a little bit more boring with each passing minute.

This podcast is a little weird, a bit silly and a tad offensive so beware. It is very similar to ASMR or guided meditation bedtime story that slowly carries you off to slumber.

“Sleep With Me” is a groundbreaking podcast created to help you fall asleep. So get in bed, press play and drift off into dreamland. If you struggle with insomnia or just getting a good night's rest, you've found the podcast for you.

Subscribe in iTunes

Become a fan on Facebook

On Twitter @dearestscooter

Music by Christopher Postill @ Sounds Like An Earful Podcast “A Podcast about collecting stories, tinkering with noises and fumbling with really big questions”

Sleep With Me Artwork by His Grace Scott

“Game of Drones” Only Feed Cover Art by Ken Ackerman

Sleep With Me is narrated by Dearest Scooter and written by Drew Ackerman

A statue, a church and a King. Someone will be ‘illing soon but it won't be you as talk of robber barons will surely put you to sleep especially when capped off with some Rick Steves goodness. Doves will fly, chased by a cat, across your dreams. Goodnight.

 

The Links

* Baelor Targaryen

* Great Sept of Baelor

* Free Cities

* Obsequious

* Scruples

* Pastoral

* Robber Baron

* FT article on Robber Barons (paywall)

* Rick Steves on the Rhine

* All The World's a Stage

* As You Like It

* “As You Like It” excerpt 

* You Be Illin | Lyrics

* When Doves Cry | Lyrics

* Day of the Day (not covered)

Older “Game of Drones” episodes can be found here

Sleep With Me is a bedtime story designed to take your mind off of the racing thoughts that keep you awake at night.

As you listen you will find yourself distracted from your worries and drifting off into dreamland..due to the fact the story gets a little bit more boring with each passing minute.

This podcast is a little weird, a bit silly and a tad offensive so beware. It is very similar to ASMR or guided meditation bedtime story that slowly carries you off to slumber.

“Sleep With Me” is a groundbreaking podcast created to help you fall asleep. So get in bed, press play and drift off into dreamland. If you struggle with insomnia or just getting a good night's rest, you've found the podcast for you.

Subscribe in iTunes

Become a fan on Facebook

On Twitter @dearestscooter

Music by Christopher Postill @ Sounds Like An Earful Podcast “A Podcast about collecting stories, tinkering with noises and fumbling with really big questions”

Sleep With Me Artwork by His Grace Scott

“Game of Drones” Only Feed Cover Art by Ken Ackerman