Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,200 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 learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 1391
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
May 2025 Deep Dive: OpenAI Responses API — MCP, Tools, and Reliability
A practical breakdown of OpenAI's May 21, 2025 Responses API updates: remote MCP tooling, built-in image generation and code interpreter, enhanced file search with multi-store and metadata filtering,…
00:14:33 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Neural Sparks: Action Potentials, GABA, and the Brain's Balance
Dive into how neurons generate action potentials, how ions and pumps set the resting potential, and how neurotransmitters—especially GABA—shape the brain's excitatory/inhibitory balance. We'll trace …
00:06:10 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Fusion Unleashed: Inside dbt’s Ground-Up Rewrite
We dive into dbt Labs’ announcement of the Fusion engine—dbt’s new, Rust-based execution engine that replaces the old Python core. Learn why speed and semantic understanding drove a complete rebuild,…
00:16:39 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
DNA of an AI Agent: Inside Strand's Model-Driven SDK
In this Deep Dive episode we unpack Strand's Agents, an open-source SDK that puts the model in the driver’s seat. We break down the three core ingredients—model, tools, and prompt—and walk through th…
00:18:44 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
OEIS A00239: Permutations with one run
We use the tiny, two-term sequence of one-run permutations as a doorway into analytic combinatorics. This episode sketches how generating functions (both exponential and ordinary) and the symbolic me…
00:09:27 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Under the Hood: The Science and Skill of Jasprit Bumrah
A deep dive into Jasprit Bumrah's bowling—beyond the stats. We unwrap his distinctive action (short run-up, late release, compact arm path, and a braced front leg), and dissect the biomechanics behin…
00:11:14 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Deep Sky Challenges: From Dark Matter to the Reionized Universe
A Deep Dive episode exploring how the universe evolved from a smooth early state to a web of galaxies, the role of baryons and feedback, the cosmic star formation history, and the epoch of reionizati…
00:17:39 |
Sat 31 May 2025
The Deep Dive: AI at Breakneck Speed — Today’s Landscape, Scaling, and the Road Ahead
We cut through the noise to map where AI stands now: consumer adoption, enterprise deployment, and the growing influence in science, media, and government. We unpack accelerating capabilities—from co…
00:18:46 |
Sat 31 May 2025
The Mark I Perceptron: From 400 Pixels to AI Foundations
A deep dive into the Mark I Perceptron (circa 1957): the first hardware realization of Rosenblatt's learning rule, using a 20×20 cadmium sulfide camera, a plugboard for feature wiring, and manual wei…
00:12:03 |
Sat 31 May 2025
AI on the Fast Track: From Data Centers to Real-World Impact
A data-driven deep dive into how AI is accelerating faster than ever—from the infrastructure and capital surge fueling the boom to the rise of multimodal models and autonomous AI agents. We separate …
00:14:51 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Gravitational Wave Rockets: Recoils, Detections, and the Quest for Cosmic Standard Sirens
From the asymmetries in merging supermassive black holes to the colossal recoil kicks that can fling a remnant across a galaxy, this episode explores gravitational‑wave rockets. We unpack how LISA co…
00:12:22 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Compton Scattering: The Century-Old Probe of Light and Matter
We dive into the Compton effect—the 1923 X-ray scattering that proved light carries momentum and energy in quanta. From the landmark experiment to modern efforts that use Compton scattering to explor…
00:18:20 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Seeing Logic: Measuring Visual Reasoning in Multimodal AI with Logic Vista
In this episode we unpack Logic Vista, a new benchmark designed to test whether multimodal LLMs can truly reason from visuals. We cover why existing tests miss this kind of visual logic, how Logic Vi…
00:15:37 |
Sat 31 May 2025
OEIS A000238: Number of oriented trees
An oriented tree is a rooted, unlabeled directed tree whose underlying undirected graph is a tree, with all edges directed away from the root. In A000238 we count these structures up to isomorphism (…
00:10:03 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Jin Chuan Lung Nidu: The Nickel City Dragon and the Dawn of Neosauropods
In this Science Corner episode we explore Jin Chuan Lung Nidu, a newly described Middle Jurassic sauropod from northwest China. With a near-complete skull and a blend of primitive and derived traits,…
00:09:42 |
Sat 31 May 2025
OEIS A000236: Adjacent Quadratic Residues
Join us for a focused look at adjacent quadratic residues in modular arithmetic. We classify consecutive pairs (k, k+1) modulo a prime p using Legendre symbols into four sets: RR (both residues), RN …
00:09:07 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Blowtorch Theory of Cosmic Evolution
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00:27:59 |
Sat 31 May 2025
OEIS A000235: Rooted trees of height exactly 3
In this episode we explore A000235, the number of labeled rooted trees on n nodes whose height is exactly 3. We recap what a rooted tree and its height mean, note why the first nonzero terms occur at…
00:10:12 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Deep-Sea Oddities: The Flapjack Octopus and the Stubby Squid
A dive into two of the ocean’s most evocatively named deep-sea creatures: the flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis) and the stubby/bobtail squid (Rossia pacifica). We explore why they’re so flat, how the…
00:10:43 |
Mon 26 May 2025
The Free Energy Frontier: Surprises, Models, and Living Systems
In this fast-paced Science Corner episode, we unpack the free energy principle: how brains, cells, and robots stay stable by predicting their sensory input and acting to minimize surprise. We'll brea…
00:17:05 |
Mon 26 May 2025
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