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
- 1383
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Cricket's Rulebook: From Pub Bets to the MCC
Take a lively stroll through cricket's rules, tracing how pub games and high-stakes bets evolved into a formal code. From the 1727 Duke's Agreement and the MCC's 1788 birth at Lord's, to the LBW deba…
00:10:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
The Bears Century: How Chicago Shaped the NFL
From humble beginnings in Decatur in 1919 to a century of football history, the Chicago Bears helped shape the NFL—from the Staleys to a championship brand, the 1930s T formation revolution, and the …
00:09:03 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Printed Through the Ages: From Cave Paintings to the Digital Age
A sweeping journey through the history of printing, tracing how humans learned to reproduce images and ideas—from ancient seals and cave art to woodblocks, movable type, and lithography, all the way …
00:09:11 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Medicine Across the Ages: From Cavemen to Germ Theory
A fast-paced tour of medical history, tracing how healing evolved from prehistoric remedies and ancient Egyptian medicine to Hippocrates and Galen, through medieval monasteries, the Renaissance, and …
00:15:06 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
From Chaturanga to Checkmate: A Global History of Chess
Join us for a lively, wiki-guided tour of chess's journey—from India's Chaturanga and the Silk Road to Persia, China, Japan, and Europe. We'll uncover how the queen became supreme, why castling and t…
00:11:16 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
The Stone Giant: Unraveling the Great Pyramid
Dive into the heart of ancient Egypt as we peel back the mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Giza. We’ll weigh dating methods, construction feats, inscriptions, and the line between myth and evidence, …
00:16:59 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Orion Unveiled: Meta's Leap into the First True AR Glasses
An in-depth look at Meta's Orion prototype—the 'first true AR glasses'—and what it could change about how we interact with the world. We examine how it promises unconstrained digital experiences, AI-…
00:09:38 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Mars Unleashed: The AI-Driven Market Simulator Redefining Finance
We explore Mars, a financial market simulator powered by a generative foundation model that learns from real-world trading data to mirror market behavior. From trend forecasting and anomaly detection…
00:14:42 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Moon Time: Coordinating a Lunar Future
We dive into why a standard lunar time is essential as nations and companies push to the Moon. From LTC—coordinated lunar time—and gravity’s subtle effect on clocks to NASA’s roadmap for 2026, we exp…
00:10:08 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Latin: The Living Echo—from Old Latin to Neo-Latin
A journey through 2,500 years of Latin: from Old Latin on the streets of ancient Rome to the masterpieces of classical literature, from medieval Latin as Europe’s scholarly lingua franca to the Renai…
00:14:41 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Higgs Unveiled: The Particle That Gives Things Mass
Dive into the Higgs story—from the idea of a pervasive field to the 2012 triumph at the Large Hadron Collider. We’ll unpack why the Higgs boson matters, how it validates the Standard Model, and what …
00:09:40 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Tiny Regulators, Big Influence: The MicroRNA Story
Meet microRNAs, the 21–23 nucleotide RNAs that fine-tune gene expression across plants, animals, and even viruses. We trace their origin—from LIN-4 and LET-7 in C. elegans to their crucial roles in h…
00:09:29 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Writing Without Limits: The Longrider Breakthrough
In this episode we unpack Longrider and the move to long-form AI writing: why current models stall at a few thousand words, how training data length matters, and how AgentWrite's planning-plus-writin…
00:08:41 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
When Empires Fell: The Late Bronze Age Collapse
A concise, evidence-based dive into how a tightly connected Bronze Age world—from Egypt to the Hittites to Mycenae—unraveled almost overnight. We’ll explore climate shocks, the rise of iron, migratio…
00:13:36 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Jupiter Unveiled: The Giant Who Shaped Our Solar System
Join us as we unpack Jupiter—from its birth and possible Grand Tack migration to the Great Red Spot and the mysteries of metallic hydrogen. We explore how the planet’s gravity helped sculpt the early…
00:17:55 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Hydrogen: The Simple Element with a Complex Story
From the hearts of stars to the fuel of the future, this episode unpacks hydrogen: its simple nucleus, surprising behavior, and huge role in chemistry, energy, and the cosmos. We explore isotopes, sp…
00:10:10 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Cracking the Web: How Websites Really Work
A friendly, no-jargon dive into the building blocks of the internet—HTML, HTTP, doctype, and the Web's evolution from static pages to Web 2.0. We pull back the curtain with clear explanations and a d…
00:13:29 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Kvatch Rising: From Prisoner to Savior and the Call of Sheogorath
Join us as we trace the arc of the Hero of Kvatch—from a nameless prisoner to Tamriel's savior during the Oblivion Crisis. We'll explore the weight of the Amulet of Kings, the alliance with the Blade…
00:09:27 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Forecasting Unlocked: A Practical Guide to Predicting with Data
Explore forecasting made friendly with Forecasting: Principles and Practice, the free online guide by Rob J. Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos. We unpack core ideas—from exploratory data analysis and…
00:08:11 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
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