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
Forecast Value Added (FVA): Measuring What Actually Improves Your Forecasts
A practical tour of FVA—the framework that separates value from noise in forecasting. We break down the basics, compare it to naive benchmarks, and explore real-world use across retail, manufacturing…
00:16:01 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Cynefin Framework Unpacked: Five Domains to Master Supply Chain Uncertainty
A practical exploration of the Cynefin Framework—your decision‑making compass for the modern supply chain. Learn its five domains (Simple, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, and Disorder), see how they m…
00:19:10 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
AI on the Move: How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain
A deep dive into how AI is reshaping the supply chain—from forecasting and inventory to routing and robotics. We’ll unpack real-world cases (Walmart, FedEx, Siemens, Ocado, and Amazon), explore the t…
00:23:08 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
OEIS A00126: Nonlinear Binomial Sums, Ternary Numbers, and Fibonacci Spirals
We dive into A00126, exploring a nonlinear binomial-sum definition and its surprising connections to ternary numbers (digits 1 and 2 only, no zeros, with a digit-sum bound), Fibonacci spirals, and co…
00:08:37 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
Snowflakes: Science, History, and the Hidden Math of Winter
A journey into snowflakes—from vapor-to-ice formation and unique patterns to the math that underpins their shapes and motion. Meet the pioneers who studied them, from Hooke and Bentley to Nakaya, and…
00:17:06 |
Sun 09 Feb 2025
AG2 Unlocked: The Superhuman Geometry AI Transforming Problem-Solving
A deep dive into Alpha Geometry 2 (AG2): the expanded geometry language, autonomous diagram generation, synthetic training data, and the Skest search ensemble that push it to superhuman IMO-level per…
00:12:25 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Supply Chain Shamans Journal 2023
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00:19:57 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
The Frequency Wars: How 50 Hz and 60 Hz Shaped the Modern Grid
A two-part deep dive into the hidden history behind the world’s power frequencies. From the early battles over AC transmission, transformers, and the rise of 50 Hz vs 60 Hz, to the key figures (Tesla…
00:16:05 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
OEIS A000125: Cake Numbers
The cake numbers count the maximum number of pieces a cube can be cut into with N planes. The nth cake number is N^3 + 5N + 6, with alternative expressions that highlight its binomial-coefficient str…
00:14:49 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
Bees by Mistake: A 100-Million-Year Amber Tale
From a Burmese amber treasure, Discuscaepa apicula challenges the bees-vs-wasps story. We explore how a pollen-coated wasp sparked questions about bee origins, the fossil pollen from Disperflora robe…
00:17:24 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
OEIS A000124: Lazy caterer's sequence
We unpack A000124, the lazy caterer's sequence (central polygonal numbers): the maximal number of pieces a pancake can be cut into with n straight cuts. We trace how its terms arise from 1 plus the s…
00:09:09 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
OEIS A000123: Binary partitions
We explore A000123, the binary partition function: the number of ways to write n as a sum of powers of two with unlimited repetition. We unpack the recurrence A(n) = A(n−1) + A(⌊n/2⌋), the striking f…
00:15:55 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Alter Magnetism: A New Frontier in Energy-Efficient Tech
Join us as we dive into alter magnetism—a newly confirmed form of magnetism that cancels net magnetization and even breaks time-reversal symmetry. We'll break down what it is, how scientists observed…
00:14:46 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Bennu Unpacked: From an Asteroid’s Secrets to Earth’s Origins
In this episode, we dive into asteroid Bennu—from OSIRIS-REx’s 2020 sample return to the building blocks of life. We unpack the organic molecules found (amino acids and nucleobases), the hints of wat…
00:10:28 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
Volcanic Bombs: Fire from the Inside
A two-part deep dive into the fiery projectiles volcanoes launch into the sky. We'll explore how bombs form and the shapes they take, what those shapes reveal about magma and eruption dynamics, how s…
00:14:31 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
OEIS A000122: Sum of Two Squares and the Jacobi Theta Connection
A000122 counts the ways to write n as a sum of two squares; its coefficients appear in the expansion of the Jacobi theta function theta_3. We explain the zeros-and-twos pattern (twos at square indice…
00:12:11 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
Seeing Beyond Color: The Mantis Shrimp’s Visual Superpowers
Join us as we dive into the mantis shrimp’s astonishing eyes: a spectrum of 12–16 color receptors, polarization vision, and trinocular depth from one eye. Learn how interval decoding keeps their visi…
00:16:58 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
OEIS A000121: Representing integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers with a doubled 1
We explore A000121, the counting sequence for representing every positive integer as a sum of Fibonacci numbers when the number 1 may be used twice. From Zeckendorf-style variants and connections to …
00:11:45 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Echoes of English: A History from Old English to the Global Language
A deep dive tracing how English evolved from its West Germanic roots through Old, Middle, and Early Modern periods. We explore the Anglo-Saxon settlement, Viking and Norman influences, the Great Vowe…
00:12:16 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Reticular Chemistry Unpacked: Building the Molecular Future
In this deep-dive episode, we explore reticular chemistry—the design of extended, highly connected frameworks built from modular building blocks. From MOFs to COFs, we discuss addressability, pioneer…
00:13:52 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
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