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The Bedtime Scientist: Calm Science for Sleepy Kids

Clouds: The Shape Water Borrows

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A calm bedtime science episode about clouds, designed to help children settle and drift off to sleep. One quiet voice, no music, no sound effects.Tonight's episode asks a question most of us never think to ask: how does something that can weigh a million pounds stay up in the sky? That's a real number, by the way.

© Josh Fleishman Length 9 min 30 May 2026 Season 3 Episode 6 ScienceBedtimeEducational Episodic

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© Josh Fleishman Length 9 min 30 May 2026 Season 3 Episode 6 ScienceBedtimeEducational Episodic

The Falling Leaves... Summer's Soft Farewell

The Falling Leaves... Summer's Soft Farewell

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A calm bedtime science episode about clouds, designed to help children settle and drift off to sleep. One quiet voice, no music, no sound effects.Tonight's episode asks a question most of us never think to ask: how does something that can weigh a million pounds stay up in the sky? That's a real number, by the way. A single large cloud, the kind that drifts past on a summer afternoon, can outweigh a long line of elephants. And there it sits, floating quietly overhead. This episode traces how clouds form around something as small as a grain of ocean salt, why weight and floating can both be true at once, and where the water inside a cloud might have been before it reached the sky above you tonight. The science is accurate, the imagery is slow, and the whole thing moves at the pace of a cloud crossing an open sky.Screen-free and replayable, it works just as well the third night in a row as the first, and more than a few parents have fallen asleep before their kids did.The Bedtime Scientist is a calm science show for children and families. One voice. Real science. A good night's sleep.Good for anyone searching for a calming bedtime podcast for kids, a science sleep story, or a quiet bedtime story about clouds and the water cycle.


© Josh Fleishman | 9 min

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