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 (2064)
OEIS A000201: A Fibonacci-family recurrence and its 0-1 matrix interpretation
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OEIS A00210: Beatty sequences floor(n(e−1)) and Rayleigh's complementary partiti...
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The Leaderboard Illusion: Rethinking AI Rankings and Chatbot Arena
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Zeeman Unveiled: How Magnetic Fields Split Light
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The Dollar Sign: Origins, Theories, and Global Notation
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Deep Dive: Volcanoes — The Science Corner
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OEIS A000209: Nearest integer to tan
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OEIS A000028: Even binary sequences with period 2n
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Entropic Gravity: Information, Entropy, and the Emergence of Space-Time
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OEIS A00026: Even Sequences with Period 2n
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OEIS A000007: Symmetry in Polygon Triangulations
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Exhausting Circles: The Greek Path to Calculus
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The Zettelkasten Effect: Cards, Connections, and the History of Thinking
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Wormholes in Wood: The Wormhole Coffee Table
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MCP Unchained: Cursor's Model Context Protocol for a Smarter AI Partner
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BCA Unpacked: The Benefit-Cost Ratio, Discounting, and Decision Making
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OEIS A000205: Representable integers by x^2 + 3y^2 up to 2n
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The Odd-Triangle Puzzle: Minsky's Theorem and the Two-Adic Twist
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OEIS A000204: Lucas numbers
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OEIS A000203: Sum of divisors
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Pilidar Deep Dive: Open-Source 360° 3D Scanning from LiDAR to Point Cloud
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OEIS A000202: Floor(13n/8) with a recursive seed and Fibonacci connections
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Deep Dive: The Mujoko Fly—Biology, Simulation, and Reinforcement Learning
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AI at Scale: Energy, Compute, and the ARC Breakthrough
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Discriminative vs Generative Models: The Two Lenses of AI
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Captain of the Attack: Mastering Bowling in Cricket
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Brinell Hardness Unveiled: Indenters, Dwell Time, and HBW
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Within-Subjects Design: Repeated Measures in Math Research
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The Hidden Complexity of Booking a Flight
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Remembering with Science: Ebbinghaus, the Forgetting Curve, and Spaced Repetitio...
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Faxian: The Monk Who Walked from China to India
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Alchemy: From Ancient Transformations to Modern Science
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OEIS A000201: Lower Wythoff sequence
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OEIS A000200: Number of bicentered hydrocarbons with N atoms
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Goldbach's Conjecture: The Additive–Multiplicative Bridge
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The Ultimate Org Chart: A Deep Dive into Biological Taxonomy
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OEIS A000199: Coefficients of Ramanujan's FQ mock theta function
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Cosines Unlocked: Generalizing Pythagoras and Solving Any Triangle
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OEIS A000197: Double factorial sequence
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Prompt Engineering for LLMs: A Deep Dive
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OEIS A000198: Automorphisms of tournaments
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Claude in the Classroom: A Data-Driven Look at AI in Higher Education
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K218b: DMS Clues, Hyacin Worlds, and the Search for Life
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Deep Dive: Odious Debt and International Law
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Deep Dive into Proof: Building Certainty in Abstract Mathematics
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OEIS A000196: Integer part of the square root
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The Math Behind AWG: A Deep Dive into American Wire Gauge
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Deep Dive: Cracking Dolphin Talk with Dolphin Gemma
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Auditory Inspection: The Science Behind Parmigiano-Tapping
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OEIS A000195: Floor of the natural logarithm
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