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
- 1399
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Running the Numbers: The Math Behind Every Stride
A concise tour of the physics and math of running—from the parabolic center of mass and ground forces to Hill’s physiology and Keller’s optimal-control models. We’ll explore fatigue, modern metrics l…
00:11:34 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Nutation and the Dance of Spin: Euler Angles, Precession, and Wobble
We unpack nutation—the subtle up-and-down wobble that accompanies spinning objects. Learn how Euler angles describe orientation, the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rotations, and how torq…
00:23:18 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Lie Algebras Unpacked: From Toy Cars to Quantum Symmetry
A clear, approachable tour of Lie algebras: what they are, how the Lie bracket captures interaction, and why the Jacobi identity matters. We’ll move from intuitive visuals—vectors in a space interact…
00:09:35 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Small Bodies, Big Clues: The Tiny Architects of the Solar System
From asteroids to comets to metallic wanderers, small solar system bodies hold clues to how our planetary neighborhood formed. In this episode, we break down what SSSBs are (and aren't), how their co…
00:12:13 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Copper Age Catalyst: Tools, Trade, and the Birth of Complex Societies
Uncover how copper, more than a quick Stone-to-Bronze stopgap, drove innovations in metallurgy, long-distance exchange, and social organization. From cold-working to smelting, from Etsy the Iceman to…
00:12:33 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Zeno’s Paradoxes: Motion, Infinity, and the Ancient Debate
We dive into Zeno of Elea’s famous puzzles—the Dichotomy and Achilles and the Tortoise—and explore why they challenged our intuition about motion. Tracing the thread from Parmenides’ unchanging reali…
00:11:57 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Tunguska 1908: The Sky-Explosion That Flattened a Forest
In this episode we dive into the Tunguska event of 1908—the colossal blast over remote Siberia that felled millions of trees with no crater in sight. We’ll unpack eyewitness accounts, the early Kulik…
00:16:39 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Russia: A History From Prehistory to the Present
A sweeping, source-guided tour of Russian history—from early hominin presence on the Taman Peninsula to the modern Russian Federation. We trace big arcs like the Varangian beginnings and Kievan Rus, …
00:19:24 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
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00:26:52 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Normans: From Northmen to European Power
A deep, narrative look at how Viking settlers in West Francia transformed into a ruling dynasty that reshaped a continent. We explore their hybrid culture, Old Norman language, and the sweeping conqu…
00:19:53 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Big Bang Deep Dive: Evidence, Mysteries, and the Cosmic Dawn
A rigorous, accessible exploration of how the universe began. We’ll trace the clues—from Hubble’s expansion to the cosmic microwave background and primordial element abundances—and dive into the big …
00:13:29 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
OEIS A000141: Sums of six squares
We explore Jacobi’s classical formula counting the number of representations of n as a sum of six squares, including how divisors with certain congruence conditions contribute. We’ll also discuss the…
00:11:22 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Geometric Grid Classes of Permutations: A Visual Dive
A deep-dive into how geometry shapes permutations. We plot points on refined grids, impose rules per cell, and explore monotone grid classes, cell graphs, and row-column connections. We’ll connect th…
00:13:31 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
OEIS A000139: Two-stack sortable permutations and friends
In this OEIS Deep Dive, we explore A000139, a remarkably interconnected sequence that counts two-stack-sortable permutations, rooted non-separable planar maps, ways to dissect a square into smaller s…
00:10:18 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Bullseye: Nine Rings, Cosmic Collisions, and the Dragonfly Telescope
We explore Lita 1313424—the Bullseye galaxy—with nine rings born from a head-on collision. Learn how rings form, how the Dragonfly Telephoto Array built from 48 Canon lenses revealed the faint outer …
00:19:05 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Charged Up: The Electrifying World of Insects
A deep dive into how insects generate and use static electricity—from wing-friction and leaf contact to electrosensing, pollination, and defense. We'll explore the triboelectric series, how bees and …
00:21:38 |
Sat 22 Feb 2025
Wings Through Time: The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
A guided deep-dive tracing the history of Microsoft Flight Simulator from its 1970s roots with Bruce Artwick and Sublogic, through the Apple II and IBM PC eras, to modern days. We'll explore landmark…
00:18:07 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
OEIS A00138: Permutations with no 4-cycles
In this episode we explore OEIS A00138—the number of permutations of n elements whose cycle decompositions contain no 4-cycles. We unpack the inclusion-exclusion formula that counts these permutation…
00:09:00 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
Leaf by Leaf: The Fibonacci Science of Phyllotaxis
From beech and sunflowers to pine cones, this episode explores how plants arrange leaves and seeds using the golden angle and Fibonacci numbers, the role of auxin in growth, historical insights from …
00:10:11 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
Muse, WHAM, and the Future of AI-Driven Game Design
In this episode, we explore Microsoft Research's Muse—a world-and-human-action model trained on seven years of Xbox gameplay data to imagine how a game could be played. We unpack how Muse generates v…
00:12:19 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
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