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
Lunar Radio Spectrum Coordination and Planning
Learn about Lunar Radio Spectrum Coordination and Planning
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00:24:30 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Unrefinable Partitions of Triangular Numbers: Anti-Symmetry and a Bijective Link
A deep dive into the latest work on maximal unrefinable partitions of triangular numbers. We explore how even and odd n behave differently, the anti-symmetric structure around n^2, the role of the mi…
00:10:25 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
SteamOS Threatens Windows Dominance
Learn about SteamOS Threatens Windows Dominance
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:20:12 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Blazars: Cosmic Beacons of Extreme Physics
Join us as we probe blazars—active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at us. We’ll unpack why they’re so bright, differentiate BL Lac objects from OVV quasars, and explore…
00:13:41 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Tropical Math: Min-Plus Magic and Geometric Curves
In this episode, we dive into tropical arithmetic—a world where addition becomes taking a minimum and multiplication is ordinary addition. We explore semirings, the absence of subtraction, and how tr…
00:19:06 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Manatees
Learn about Manatees
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00:23:49 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Parallel Lives Unpacked: Greeks, Romans, and the Mirror of Character
A spirited dive into Plutarch's Parallel Lives. We pair Greek and Roman figures—from Alexander the Great to Julius Caesar, Demosthenes to Cicero—to explore how temperament, choices, and leadership sh…
00:17:59 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Frobenius Unraveled: A Deep Dive into Group Theory's Namesake
A focused exploration of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius's lasting impact on group theory. We unpack Frobenius groups, Sylow theorems for abstract groups, Frobenius reciprocity in representation theory, an…
00:13:35 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
OEIS A00098: Two-kind partitions of N
Explore A00098, the number of ways to partition n when each part size 1, 2, and 3 comes in two distinct kinds. We’ll walk through small examples (A3 = 10) and show how this sequence connects to parti…
00:10:55 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Reasoning Redefined: Bridging the Generator-Verifier Gap in LLMs
A deep dive into why fluent text doesn't guarantee truth, how generative verifiers and techniques like scratchpad computation and reasoning trees boost AIs such as O1 and Google's Gemini, the current…
00:09:57 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
O1 Unpacked: The AI That Thinks Before It Answers
We dive into OpenAI's O1—a family of large language models trained with reinforcement learning to reason step by step. From chain-of-thought reasoning and safety guardrails to jailbreak resistance an…
00:15:01 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Genoa: A City of Sea, Resilience, and Renaissance
A deep dive into Genoa’s extraordinary journey—from ancient origins and Punic wars to Renaissance finance, global exploration, and its modern revival. We explore its maritime spirit, iconic neighborh…
00:16:33 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
OEIS A000097: Partitions with two colors of 1s and 2s
We dive into A000097, counting partitions of n when each 1 and 2 comes in two colors. We'll trace its rich set of interpretations—from Euler transforms and generating functions to recurrences, near-i…
00:08:52 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
The Coastline Paradox: How Long Is a Shoreline?
A Deep Dive into why coastline length isn’t fixed. As measurement scales get finer, coastlines reveal more nooks and crannies, hinting at fractal geometry and even infinite lengths in theory. We expl…
00:09:19 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Ghosn: Rise, Fall, and Escape
A deep-dive into Carlos Ghosn’s ascent at Renault–Nissan, the bold reforms that reshaped the auto industry, the 2018 arrest in Japan and the controversial ‘hostage justice’ system, and the audacious …
00:11:46 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Martingales Unmasked: From Casino Doubles to Real-World Forecasts
Join us for an accessible deep dive into martingales—the math behind 'fair games' and the random world around us. Trace their origins in gambling, see how a simple coin flip leads to powerful tools, …
00:11:17 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Evolutionary Computation Unplugged: From Turing to Genetic Programming
A STEM-friendly deep dive into how evolutionary computation uses randomness and Darwinian principles to solve hard optimization problems. We’ll trace its origins—from Alan Turing’s early ideas to the…
00:12:25 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
Auroras Unveiled: The Science and Stories Behind Earth's Dancing Lights
A guided journey into the polar skies, unpacking how solar wind and Earth's magnetic field create dazzling auroras, why colors vary with altitude, the odd forms like Steve and dune auroras, and what …
00:17:57 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
2024 NFL All Pro Team Predictions
Learn about 2024 NFL All Pro Team Predictions
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:22:07 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
OEIS A00096: The annulus-cutting sequence
We explore A00096, the quadratic a(n) = n(n+3)/2, and how a simple formula shows up in geometry, combinatorics, and CS. From maximizing pieces of a donut with n cuts to counting diagonals, prime poly…
00:13:53 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
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