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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Invention: The Bed

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We sure do spend a lot of time in bed, but what exactly IS a bed and what were ancient beds like? In this invention-based episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the ancient history of the bed.

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0:00.0

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0:26.7

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0:30.6

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam, and I'm Joe McCormick,

0:48.0

and today we're going to be addressing a, maybe a surprisingly cozy topic.

0:53.6

We're going to be doing a bit of an invention look at the bed.

0:57.9

That's right.

0:58.9

We love to go to bed, especially this time of year.

1:02.0

You know, it just seems like the place to be.

1:05.7

Under multiple layers of blanket.

1:08.5

Totally over your body.

1:09.5

Yeah, yeah, my head just between two pillows, just in the utter darkness there.

1:15.0

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a cliche, especially when it comes to mattress commercials, but

1:22.0

we do spend an enormous amount of time in bed.

1:25.1

You know, we spend a large portion of our life sleeping, and this is where we do it.

1:31.7

One of the sources that I'm going to refer to in this episode is a book that I just started

1:36.0

reading called What We Did in Bed, A Horizontal History by Yale University Press, or not

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