Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,800 AI-powered explorations across science, mathematics, philosophy, and personal growth. Each short-form episode is generated, refined, and published with the help of large language models—turning curiosity into an ongoing audio encyclopedia. Designed for anyone who loves learning, it offers quick dives into everything from combinatorics and cryptography to systems thinking and psychology.Inspiration for this podcast:"Muad'Dib...
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Episodes (2068)
Pluridens serpentis: The Snake-Toothed Giant of Morocco's Ancient Seas
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Nebra Sky Disc: Mankind’s Oldest Celestial Map
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Dielectric Fries: Engineering a Healthier, Crispy Fry
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ZX Spectrum Landmark 8-Bit Home Computer
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Andrej Karpathy’s AutoResearch
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PEP 827: Type Manipulation and Programmable Typing in Python
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MultiGen: External Memory, Stable AI Worlds, and the Future of Shared Virtual Sp...
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Why Python Developers Are Learning Rust
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Interplanetary Habitable Zone
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The Mystery of the Missing Lithium
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Megamasers: Cosmic Lasers Lighting the Universe
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Dawn of the Soft-Bodied: The Ediacaran Biota
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Mirrors of Mesoamerica: Craft, Cosmos, and the Reflected Self
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Speculative Speculative Decoding
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Echoes of the Void: The Expanding Gravitational Wave Catalog
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GPT-5.4: The Frontier Model for Professional Knowledge Work
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Google Workspace CLI: Dynamic Command-Line for Humans and Agents
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Cursor Automations: Building Always-On Engineering Agents
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Claude's Cycles: Solving Hamiltonian Decompositions with AI
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Static Framework Unleashed: The CSR Trick Keeping AI Recommendations Fast and Ha...
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Percolation Theory
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The Marcus–Spielman–Srivastava Interlacing Polynomials Method
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Zero or One: Kolmogorov’s Infinite Truths
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Barycenters and the Cosmic Seesaw: How Orbits Share a Pivot
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AI Agent Gauss Verifies Sphere Packing Proofs
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Guide to Piezoelectricity
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Tiny fish pass the mirror test
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AI Trust and Perceived Warmth
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Banach-Tarski and the Infinite Cut: How One Ball Becomes Two
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Ballpoint Pen Micro-Engineering
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Lagrange's Hidden Harbors: Five Cosmic Parking Spots That Could Power Space Expl...
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How Do You Count Words in a 5 TB Text File?
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Cage Cups of Rome: The Subtractive Glass Masters
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Modern Zipper Engineering: Inside the Tiny Machine That Controls Friction
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Gaia, Palomar 5, and the Invisible Black-Hole Stream
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Alnashetri cerropoliciensis: The Tiny Dino That Reshaped Dinosaur Evolution
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Hole or Halo at the Milky Way's Core: The Black Hole–Dark Matter Spike Dilemma
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Hovering on Heat: The Leidenfrost Effect from Kitchen Tricks to High-Tech Labs
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Fogg Behavior Model: Designing Habits That Stick
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Stochastic Sirens: Listening for the Universe's Quiet Expansion
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Harness Engineering: AI Agents at Scale and the Self-Healing Codebase
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The Drude Model of Electrical Conduction
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Buckets of Fish: Proofs and Strategies for Finitary Games
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Chaining Tasks, Redefining Work: The AI Flow Revolution
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The Skills Passport: Standard Chartered’s AI Workforce Revolution
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Rivers of the Dawn: Neolithic Engineering in the Fertile Crescent
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Strontium-87: Future of Time
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Claude Opus 3: Retirement Interviews and the Future of AI Welfare
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QWERTY at 150: How a 19th-Century Solution Built the Digital World
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Geodesy: Measuring a Lumpy Earth
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