Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,800 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...
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Episodes (2059)
Chewbacca Coral: The Shaggy Giant of the Deep Sea
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Newcomb’s Paradox in the Age of AI: One Box, Two Boxes, and Free Will
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Ultra-Black: From Vantablack to Biomimicry
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Prompt Architecture: Mastering Strategic AI Prompting
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Radio Armor: Detecting a Magnetic Shield on YZ Ceti b
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The Codex Unfolded: Anatomy, History, and Craft of the Book
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SBOA: The Secretary Bird’s Blueprint for Edge AI and Drone Scheduling
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The Art Gallery Problem: Why floor(n/3) Guards Are Enough
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Reverse Mathematics: The Foundational Price of Theorems
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Mamenchisaurus: The 41% Neck and the Engineering of Gigantism
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108 Sun Salutations: The Yoga Mala and the Art of Transformation
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HD 20794 d: An Eccentric Super-Earth's Route to Water and Habitability
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Diamonds on the Express Elevator: The Fast Ride from Deep Earth
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Deep Earth Energy: The Geothermal and Geologic Hydrogen Revolution
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Carolina-Style Hot Dogs Unpacked: The Neon Red Frank, The Works, and The Slaw De...
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Gaia BH2: The Quiet Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Hidden Population
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The Cone That Roared: How Resonator Guitars Multiplied Volume and Rewired Tone
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Timekeepers in Stone: How Geochronology Dates the Deep Past
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The Vampire Squid Genome: A Rosetta Stone for Cephalopod Evolution
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Fire Amoeba: Cindiamoeba cascadensis Redefines Life
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Forecasting Alien Weather: Webb Reveals SIMP0136’s Self-Powered Auroras
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Kordylewski clouds: Earth's Ghost Moons at L4 and L5
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Göbekli Tepe: The World’s First Monumental Complex
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Triassic Croc-Line Kings: How Pseudosuchians Ruled Before Dinosaurs
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The Long Count Engine: Maya Math, GMT, and Time Without End
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TPU Unboxed: The Secret Engine Behind Google's AI Speed
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The Impossible Moon: Earth's Anomalous Neighbor
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Mimas Unveiled: A Nascent Ocean Beneath Saturn's Death Star
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The Hidden Order of Random Permutations
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Tiny Falcons, Big Yields: The Kestrel Breakthrough in Michigan Cherries
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Embodiment: Thinking with Body and Brain
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Tiny Diamonds, Planetary Pressures: How the Diamond Anvil Cell Rewrites Material...
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Cosmic Pantry: Tryptophan, Bennu, and the Universal Chemistry of Life
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Google D-Star: Iterative Planning and Verification for Messy Data
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Ankylosaurus: The Living Fortress
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The Fibonacci Bridge: Instant Mile-to-Kilometer Conversions
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NBA players are moving faster on the court
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The Barking Muntjac: Tiny Deer, Five-Centimeter Fangs, and a Six-Chromosome Surp...
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Inner Kernel: A Data-Driven Map of the Kuiper Belt
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The Ellipsoid Metric: Mahalanobis Distance and the Shape of Data
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Dunkleosteus: The Devonian Juggernaut Reexamined
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Decree of Canopus: The Tri-lingual Stone That Bridges Language, Governance, and...
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Bakuribu/Ritza: The Comb-Mouth Pterosaur of Brazil's Tropics
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Waste to Wonder: Cocoa Shells, Stingless Bee Honey, and the Future of Sustainabl...
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Ancient Sky Machines: Gears, Maps, and Texts from Antikythera to the Skiri Pawne...
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AI-First Languages: TypeScript, Bash, and the New Rules of Coding
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The Unison Programming Language: The Content-Addressed Code Revolution
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Nanopores: Tiny Holes, Big Data in Biology
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The Pigeon Compass: How the Inner Ear Reads Earth's Magnetic Field
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Mars Sparks: The First Martian Lightning and What It Means for Humans
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