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 (2069)
The Gittins Index: When to Exploit, When to Explore
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Miranda’s Hidden Ocean: Forensic Geology on Uranus’s Chaotic Moon
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Storming to Performing: The Real Path Through Bruce Tuckman’s Team Phases
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From Finger Flicks to the Vortex Genie: The Tiny Revolution in Lab Mixing
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Automated Backpack Microscope Diagnoses Malaria
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Good Enough: The Case for Aspiration-Based AI
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Atomic GPT: Building a Transformer from Scratch in 200 Lines
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Egg Nebula: A Cosmic Blink From Red Giant to Planetary Nebula
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The Thermodynamics of the Perfect Cookie: Expansion, Extinction, and the Ring
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Hidden Price Tags: Hedonic Regression and the Value of Everyday Things
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Carmack's Light-Speed Memory: The 200-KM Fiber Loop and the AI Hardware Revoluti...
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Venus's Hidden Lava Tube: A Kilometer-Wide Gateway Beneath Nix Mons
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Lyapunov’s Shortcut: Stability in Motion from Brooms to Routers
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Skara Brae: The Stone Village That Stayed Warm
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Horizon by the Numbers: Measuring Earth’s Curve with Geometry
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Liquid Magnets: The Science, History, and Future of Ferrofluids
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Porter Reimagined: Turning Five Forces into a Dynamic Strategy Engine
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Bernoulli's Urn: The Simple Jar Behind Modern Statistics
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Sieve of Eratosthenes: From Ancient Papyrus to Modern Prime Power
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The Mastaba Machine: How Egypt Built an Immortal Architecture
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The Halting Problem: Spinning Wheels and the Limits of Computation
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OpenAI Frontier and the AI Co-Worker
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Systema Teleion: The Hidden Grid of Ancient Greek Music
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Lunar Infrastructure: LISTER, CELINE, and the Blueprint for a Moon City
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Newgrange: The 17-Minute Sunbeam and the Dawn of Civilization
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Claude Opus 4.6: Adaptive Thinking, Agent Teams, and the AI Orchestrator
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Towards Self-Driving Code Bases: Orchestrating Thousands of AI Agents to Build a...
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Le Plasker: From Mesolithic Hut to Neolithic Tomb on Brittany's Ridge
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Heavy Waves: Quantum Superpositions in Sodium Nanoparticles
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The Skeleton of a Song: Roman Numerals and the Universal Grammar of Harmony
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Meltwater, Micro-Engineering, and the Curling Stone: The Physics of Sweeping
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IceCube: A Deep Ice Window into the Neutrino Universe
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Ancient Zapotec Engineering
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Ancient Automata: Hephaestus, Talos, and the Birth of Embodied Intelligence
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Doggerland: The Lost Mesolithic World Beneath the North Sea
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Stygiomedusa Gigantica: The Giant Phantom Jelly of the Midnight Zone
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Apples Turn Brown To Defend Themselves
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Bioengineered Fire: Could Nature Build a Dragon?
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PaperBanana: A Multi-Agent Studio for Faithful Scientific Visualizations
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Engineering Breakfast: The Pancake as a Fluid Dynamics Problem
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Tensegrity: Floating Compression and the Shape of Strength
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Rolling Giants: The Olmec Colossal Heads and the Logistics of Scale
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Propinquity: How Proximity Designs Our Relationships
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The Forest's Hidden Market: Mycorrhizal Networks and the Mother Tree
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The Death Owl and the Cloud People: A Zapotec Tomb that Rewrote the Afterlife
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Moltbook: The Birth of the Machine Society
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AlphaGenome: Reading the Regulatory Code of DNA
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Affective Computing: Reading Emotions in Machines
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The Physics and 39-Degree Geometry of Duck Wakes
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Theorem on Friends and Strangers
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