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 A000194: Nearest integer to square root of n
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OEIS A000193: Nearest integer to log n
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Thermal Colloids: Gold Nanoparticles, Graphene, and Nanoscale Logic
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Geometry in the Crow Brain: What Crows Reveal About Animal Math
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OEIS A000192: Generalized Euler Numbers
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OEIS A000191: Generalized tangent numbers
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OEIS A000190: Counts the number of solutions to x^4 ≡ 0 (mod n)
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GPT-4.5 Orion: Training the Giant — A Deep Dive into Scale, Data, and Safety
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OEIS A000189: Number of solutions to x^3 ≡ 0 mod n
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Ironwood Unveiled: The Physics of Google's Seventh-Gen AI Accelerator
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OEIS A000188: The Square Root of the Largest Square Dividing n
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Gravity Reimagined: An Intro to Einstein's Field Equations
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Blocking Unpacked: Turning Noise into Signal in Experimental Design
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OEIS A00187: Generalized Euler numbers
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Yellow Light, Big Science: Inside High-Pressure Sodium Lamps
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The 1955 Le Mans Disaster: How a Crash Reshaped Motorsport
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Project Azorian: The CIA’s Audacious Deep-Sea Salvage
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Glass Sponges Unveiled: The Deep-Sea Silica Skeletons
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Redox Reactions Unpacked: Electron Moves That Power Everyday Chemistry
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Electrowinning Unpacked: Powering Metal Recovery with Electrolysis
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Shells Unlocked: The Science of Seashells
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Tariffs, Prices, and the Hidden Costs of Trade Barriers
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OEIS A000186: 3×N Latin Rectangles with an Ordered First Row
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Llama 4 Scout & Maverick: Meta's Multimodal AI Revolution
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Dreamer V3: A General-Purpose World-Model for Reinforcement Learning
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Lithospheric Drips: The Slow Shaping of Earth's Crust
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Open Deep Search: Building Transparent, Open-Source Search-Augmented LLMs
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Mind Maps Unlocked: Visual Thinking for Study, Work, and Creativity
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Cosmic Whispers: Weighing Dark Matter with Dwarf Galaxies
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Menage Hit Polynomial Coefficients: Counting Exact Forbidden Adjacencies in the...
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OEIS A000184: Genus zero rooted maps with three faces
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AI 2027: The Race to Superintelligence and Global Power
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OEIS A000183: Discordant Permutations
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OEIS A000182: Tangent numbers
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Microcode Deep Dive: The Hidden Layer Between Software and Silicon
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Algebra, Analysis, and the Abel Prize: Kashiwara's D-Modules and the Rise of Alg...
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OEIS A000181: Coefficients of ménage hit polynomials
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Astrocrete and Lunarcrete: Off-World Construction
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OEIS A000180: Expansion of exp(x)/(1-3x)
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The Highway Dragon: Fractals from Paper to Plane
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Reading the Room: Demand Characteristics in Psychology
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OEIS A000179: Menage numbers
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Factorial Building Blocks: The TAN Quest to 1/e
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OEIS A000178: The Superfactorial
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OEIS A000177: Representations by six squares
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OEIS A000176: Generalized Tangent Numbers, DN2
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OEIS A000175: Zeros of Bessel Functions and the Rayleigh Polynomials
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Wright’s Law Demystified: The Learning Curve That Cuts Costs with Experience
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Cosmic Spotlights: Herbig-Haro Jets and the Birth of Stars
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C for Light: The Hidden History of the Speed‑of‑Light Symbol
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