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
- 1394
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
The Seven Bridges That Built Graph Theory
From Königsberg’s legendary bridges to the birth of graph theory: how Euler turned a simple city puzzle into a universal framework by treating landmasses as nodes and bridges as edges. We’ll trace Eu…
00:08:49 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Larmor in the Ether: Joseph Larmor and the Making of Modern Physics
Episode 15 of our Lucasian Professors series examines Sir Joseph Larmor—Irish-born mathematician and physicist, senior wrangler, and the man who gave us the Larmor formula and helped shape the Lorent…
00:17:21 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Handshake Secrets: Unlocking the Handshaking Lemma in Graph Theory
A friendly deep-dive into the handshaking lemma. We explain what graphs are, why the sum of vertex degrees equals twice the number of edges, and why an even number of odd-degree vertices appears. We’…
00:10:44 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
Stokes, Flow, and the Navier–Stokes: A Deep Dive into Fluid Dynamics
Join us for episode 14 as we explore Sir George Stokes, the 13th Lucasian Professor, and his lasting impact on fluid dynamics. From simplifying the Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible flows to…
00:15:29 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
OEIS A00067: Counts of integers ≤ 2^n representable as x^2 + 2y^2
Explore A00067, the counts of integers ≤ 2^n that can be represented as x^2 + 2y^2. From positive-definite quadratic forms to lattices and Landau’s theory, this tiny sequence opens a doorway to deep …
00:07:43 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
OEIS A000066: Cage graphs
An exploration of the cubic (3-regular) cage graphs: the smallest number of vertices needed for a graph to have a given girth. We discuss what A000066 counts, known results for girths up to 12, the r…
00:08:47 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
The Traitorous Eight and the Birth of Silicon Valley
In this episode, we explore the infamous exodus from Shockley Semiconductor and the birth of Fairchild, tracing how Moore, Noyce, and their colleagues reshaped tech, developed planar technology, and …
00:12:56 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
OEIS A000065: Partitions, Geometry, Graphs, and Beyond
We peel back the layers of A000065, the ‘minus one plus the number of partitions’ sequence, and watch it thread through geometry, graph theory, and even real-world systems. We’ll explore its geometri…
00:12:06 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
The Great Filter: Decoding the Fermi Paradox
Join us for a rigorous, accessible dive into the Fermi Paradox and its most provocative answer—the Great Filter. We unpack what abiogenesis means, why intelligent life may be rare, how universal limi…
00:16:28 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
God's Banker: The Banco Ambrosiano Scandal
A gripping true-crime saga tracing the Banco Ambrosiano collapse—from its Vatican-linked roots and offshore dealings to the shadowy P2 lodge and Cold War intrigue—culminating in a missing billion and…
00:14:57 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Detective Fiction
Learn about Detective Fiction
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00:25:14 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Modified Newtonian Dynamics
Learn about Modified Newtonian Dynamics
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Sponsored by Embersilk LLC
00:32:54 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
OEIS A000064: Ways to Make Change with 1, 2, 5, and 10-Cent Coins
We explore A000064, the coin-change sequence that counts, for each n, the number of ways to make change using 1, 2, 5, and 10-cent coins. We unpack its combinatorial meaning as partitions into those …
00:12:50 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
The Quiet Scholar: Joshua King and the Hidden Legacy of the Lucasian Chair
Dive into the life of Joshua King, the 12th Lucasian Professor, who rose from Hawkshead to Cambridge but published only one paper. We examine his administrative impact at Queen's College and as vice …
00:07:35 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
Charles Babbage: The Father of Computing
We explore Charles Babbage, the 11th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and his quest to automate calculation. From the Difference Engine to the Analytical Engine—and Ada Lovelace’s pioneering algori…
00:17:48 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
Richard K. Guy: A Life of Numbers, Games, and Collaboration
A deep dive into the life and work of Richard K. Guy, the British mathematician whose career spanned number theory, recreational mathematics, and chess problem composition. From Winning Ways with Con…
00:15:22 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
OEIS A000063: Kite-Symmetric Triangulations and Catalan Connections
Explore A000063, the OEIS entry counting polygon triangulations that respect a kite-shaped symmetry. Learn what kite symmetry means in triangulations, how the counts link to Catalan numbers (especial…
00:09:57 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
Liquid Neural Networks: Real-Time AI That Learns on the Fly
An expert dive into liquid neural networks (LNNs): how time-continuous processing lets them adapt in real time, and why they’re compact enough for edge devices. We explore transparency advantages ove…
00:12:30 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
From Frog Legs to Batteries: The Electric World of Chemical Reactions
Explore the language of chemical equations and the electrifying world of electrochemistry. Trace the history from Galvani’s frog legs to Volta’s battery and Faraday’s laws, and see how electron trans…
00:20:05 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
Ceres: Ice, Salt, and a Hidden Ocean in the Asteroid Belt
Join us as we explore Ceres—the dwarf planet that’s reshaping our view of the asteroid belt. From Dawn’s data on its ice, salts, and possible subsurface ocean to evidence of cryovolcanism and organic…
00:14:24 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
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