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
- 1388
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
From Baby Carriages to Water Purification: The AO Smith Odyssey
A rapid history of AO Smith—from 1874 Milwaukee beginnings making baby carriages to supplying war materiel, pioneering glass-lined tanks, and becoming a global leader in water heating and filtration …
00:08:49 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
ChemPy Unlocked: A Practical Dive into Python's Chemistry Toolbox
This episode introduces ChemPy, a Python package that acts like a chemistry toolbox you can code with. Learn how it handles core tasks—balancing equations, parsing formulas, computing molecular masse…
00:09:43 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Carbon Nanotubes: Tiny Tubes, Big Potential
In this episode we explore carbon nanotubes—rolled graphene strands whose structure dictates whether they conduct like wires or behave like transistors. We'll unpack how their zigzag and armchair pat…
00:07:02 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Calcium: The Fifth Element—From Bones to Climate, Steel, and Space
A deep-dive into calcium—far beyond bones and teeth. Explore how calcium powers muscle contraction and blood clotting, how it helps remove impurities in steelmaking, and its surprising roles in Earth…
00:12:12 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Porphyrion: The Giant Radio Galaxy Redrawing the Cosmos
We explore the record‑breaking giant radio galaxy Porphyrion—seven megaparsecs across—and the physics of cosmic jets, redshift-space distortions, and how these behemoths sculpt the cosmic web. From L…
00:13:26 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Binary Quadratics Unveiled: From Diophantus to Gauss
A friendly dive into binary quadratic forms: what they are, how we decide when two forms are equivalent, and how reduction and discriminants reveal a finite map of an infinite landscape. Join the jou…
00:12:47 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Ancient Astronauts: A Critical Dive into a Cosmic Idea
A balanced, source-grounded exploration of the ancient astronauts hypothesis, tracing its mid-20th-century rise and the scientific counterarguments. We unpack notable claims—from the Dogon and Sirius…
00:10:45 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
AlphaChip: AI-Designed Chips and the Future of Tech
Dive into Google's AlphaChip, the AI-powered approach that designs chips using reinforcement learning. See how AI-designed chips can be faster, more power-efficient, and unlock new possibilities from…
00:06:43 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
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