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
- 1390
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Statistics Interview Questions
Learn about Statistics Interview Questions
00:21:39 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Turducken Unpacked: Who Invented the Layered Bird?
A Thanksgiving mystery tour tracing the origins of the turducken—from Cajun legend Paul Prudhomme to Hebert Specialty Meats and John Madden. We dive into engastration’s long history, a 1913 Spanish r…
00:12:27 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Theophrastus: Aristotle’s Shadow and the First Renaissance Mind
Explore Theophrastus, the 4th-century BCE polymath crowned 'divine speaker' by Aristotle. From pioneering botany and plant uses to sharp social sketches and fearless independence, this episode shows …
00:09:23 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Marshall Plan Unpacked: Rebuilding Europe and Shaping the Cold War
A deep dive into postwar Europe's devastation and the U.S. response. We explore the Marshall Plan’s scale (about $13 billion to Western Europe 1948–1951, ~$174 billion today), the use of counterpart …
00:12:17 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
System Design Primer: Trade-offs, Scaling, and Building Big
A concise tour of core system-design concepts—from performance vs. scalability, latency vs. throughput, and the CAP theorem to horizontal scaling and caching. Learn how designers trade off choices an…
00:08:10 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Back to the Beginning: The Untold Story of Super Bowl I
We rewind to 1967's AFL-NFL World Championship Game to uncover how Vince Lombardi's Packers, a confident Chiefs squad, and a rogue night out gave birth to the modern NFL. From rival leagues and two f…
00:07:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Sumer: The Original Trailblazers — Writing, Wheels, and the First Cities
A fast-paced crash course tracing Sumer’s rise from early villages to mighty city-states like Uruk and Ur. Learn how the Sumerians invented writing, the wheel, and urban life, explore daily life, fam…
00:15:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
What Might a Google Breakup Look Like
Learn about What Might a Google Breakup Look Like
00:23:16 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Venus Exposed: From Ancient Oceans to Infernal Skies
We dive into Venus, Earth’s neighbor that isn’t quite a twin. From hints of ancient oceans and a runaway greenhouse to Magellan’s radar maps, pancake-dome volcanoes, and the planet’s blistering winds…
00:12:27 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Prime Time with Sympy: A Fun Dive into Number Theory
A lively tour through the wild world of numbers using Sympy’s number theory toolkit. We unpack primes, prime gaps, twin primes, and Goldbach’s conjecture, and explore fast factorization with limits a…
00:13:24 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Supply Chain Unpacked: Disruptions, Data, and a Circular Future
A lively exploration of how everyday products travel from raw materials to your hands, the tech redefining SCM 2.0, and the drive toward resilience, ethics, and circularity in global logistics.
Note: …
00:14:31 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Speaker Detective: How Machines Learn Who's Speaking
Dive into speaker diarization—the tech that splits audio by speaker and labels who spoke when. We’ll explore voice prints, voice activity detection, and clustering; how accuracy is measured with diar…
00:10:03 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Aramco: Oil, Power, and the Global Stage
A clear-eyed, jargon-free deep dive into Saudi Aramco—from its 1930s oil explorations and the World War II–era shifts to the 1980 nationalisation, the 2019 IPO, and today’s expansive footprint in ref…
00:07:48 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Looping Gravity: The Quantized Fabric of Space
Dive into loop quantum gravity, a bold approach suggesting that spacetime itself is made of discrete loops. We’ll unpack spin networks, background independence, and how geometry becomes quantized at …
00:12:48 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Pell's Equation Unlocked: From Ancient Puzzles to Modern Algorithms
Join us as we unravel Pell's equation, the ancient Diophantine treasure x^2 - n y^2 = 1. We’ll trace its history—from Brahmagupta and the Chakravala method to Archimedes’ cattle problem and the Ferma…
00:13:06 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Salt, Sparks, and Stars: The Surprising Story of Sodium
Sodium isn’t just table salt. In this episode we chase its journey—from ancient natron used in mummies to cutting-edge cooling in nuclear reactors, its explosive chemistry with water, and its fingerp…
00:09:05 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Perfect Code: Herding Cats in Space and the Future of Learning
Google's Perfect Code turns a simple browser game into a thoughtful exploration of modern coding education. We unpack the tech choices—Flutter, Dart, Flame—and the open‑source approach with IDX, plus…
00:08:50 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Code Through the Ages: A History of Programming Languages
Join us on a time-traveling tour from 1940s punch cards to today’s diverse programming languages. We’ll trace machine language and assembly, high-level breakthroughs (Fortran, LISP), the rise of C an…
00:09:25 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
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