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
- 1379
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Donegal Danny: Ballads, Memory, and the Irish Sea
An immersive look at the Dubliners' Donegal Danny, where a stranger's arrival unlocks a village's memory of storms, survival, and loss. We explore how coastal ballads functioned as oral newspapers—ca…
00:07:14 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
The Cosmic Web: Mapping the Universe's Largest Threads
An awe-filled tour of the cosmic web—galaxy filaments woven by gravity and dark matter. We explore what the web is made of, how we map it with brilliant beacons like gamma-ray bursts, and how simple …
00:09:36 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Colossal Cave Adventure: The Birth of Text-Based Gaming
A concise dive into how Will Crowther’s cave-inspired world, Don Woods’ expansion, and ARPANET roots sparked a revolution in interactive fiction and modern adventure games—from simple command prompts…
00:10:09 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
The Book of Kells: Secrets of an Illuminated Masterpiece
A deep dive into the 8th‑century gospel book famed for unprecedented ornamentation, vivid insular art, and hidden symbolism. We explore its origins, materials, craftsmanship, and why it mattered as a…
00:10:27 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Aluminum: The Everyday Metal with a Radical History
A deep dive into the metal we take for granted—from bauxite to Hall-Héroult electrolysis, Bayer purification, and the oxide armor that makes aluminum so enduring. We explore its ubiquitous uses, surp…
00:11:32 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Shocks, Records, and a Final Sprint: The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
A deep dive into the drama of the 2023 tournament—from warm-up upsets to a historic South Africa final, with record-breaking performances and pivotal milestones defining a new era for women's cricket…
00:07:29 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
1966: The Year the NFL Met Its Future
A deep dive into a pivotal season: the AFL–NFL merger, the birth of the World Championship Game (the forerunner of the Super Bowl), the Falcons’ expansion draft, the Don Chandler goalpost rule change…
00:06:40 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Chromium Unveiled: The Two Faces of a Colorful Element
A deep dive into chromium’s surprising complexity—from its abundance and vibrant chemistry to its dual roles as essential chromium-3 and potentially harmful chromium-6. Explore how this metal appears…
00:09:20 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Carbon Deep Dive: From Atoms to Alloys
A lively tour of carbon—from its four-armed valence to diamonds, graphite, fullerenes, and carbon fiber—exploring how this single element shapes life, technology, and the planet. We’ll peek at lab-gr…
00:06:58 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Boron Unleashed: The Metalloid with Big Tricks
In this episode we explore boron, the quiet metalloid that can act like both a metal and a nonmetal. We'll unpack its unusual chemistry—from boranes and carboranes to boron carbide and boron nitride—…
00:08:11 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
ArgDown: Mapping Arguments with Plain Text
A close look at ArgDown, a text-based system for mapping debates right in your documents. Learn how simple symbols, statement and argument titles, and flexible exports help untangle messy conversatio…
00:08:02 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Aela Unbound: The Huntress of Skyrim
Dive into Aela the Huntress, tracing her lineage, her role within the Companions, and the dual life that makes her a centerpiece of Skyrim’s lore. From her fierce mentorship to the Circle’s secret ri…
00:11:09 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Spin and Schemes: Inside the Robot Table-Tennis Breakthrough
A deep dive into a high-tech table tennis robot: 17 distinct shots, adaptive strategy, and real-time exploit of opponents' weaknesses. We trace its training—from millions of simulated plays to seven …
00:11:58 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Athkatla: The Gilded City of Coin
Explore Athkatla—the glittering city of coin where wealth and want coexist, and every spell has a price. We'll map the power: the cowled wizards who license magic, the Council of Six led by Faze Selm…
00:11:38 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Rise, Reign, and Reckoning: The Story of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia
A deep dive into the life of Alexander I, born in exile in 1888, who rose from crown prince to king of a newly formed Yugoslavia. We trace his journey from the Balkan Wars and World War I to his auto…
00:09:58 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
The Shape of Life: 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the AlphaFold Revolution
This episode unpacks why the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry matters for biology and medicine, from the protein folding problem to the AI-driven breakthroughs of AlphaFold. We trace the prize winners—D…
00:11:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Robo-Taxis on the Horizon: Tesla's Bold Bet on a Driverless Future
We break down Tesla's latest unveil—CyberCab, Robovan, and a two-pronged plan to run robo-taxis and a car-rentals economy—and explore what it would take to get driverless cars on real roads. From cam…
00:06:59 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Cobalt: From Goblin Ore to Global Power
Take a deep dive into cobalt's journey—from ancient blue pigments in Egyptian art to its central role in vitamin B12, high-temperature superalloys, and the batteries powering modern devices and EVs. …
00:07:44 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Chlorine: The Jekyll-and-Hyde of the Periodic Table
From salt to sanitizer to sinister weapon, this episode traces chlorine’s journey—its discovery, the chloralkali revolution, and its pivotal role in public health, medicine, and everyday life. A scie…
00:12:19 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Canvas: The Visual AI Collaboration That Changes How We Work
OpenAI's Canvas puts ChatGPT inside your document, enabling live, contextual feedback in a shared workspace. We break down how GPT-4o is trained for collaboration, what makes its edits smarter, how i…
00:08:52 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
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