Intellectually Curious
Intellectually Curious is a podcast by Mike Breault featuring over 1,600 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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Podcasting since 2024 • 1750 episodes
Intellectually Curious
Latest Episodes
The Mastaba Machine: How Egypt Built an Immortal Architecture
Step into the desert 4,500 years ago to meet the mastaba—an architectural 'bench' that was really a self-contained machine for immortality. We explore its two lives: the public chapel for offerings, and the sealed substructure with a backup sta...
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The Halting Problem: Spinning Wheels and the Limits of Computation
Spinning wheels aren’t just frustrated users—they hint at a fundamental limit of computation. In this episode we unpack Turing's halting problem, walk through the Saboteur paradox that defeats a universal predictor, and see how Rice's theorem e...
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OpenAI Frontier and the AI Co-Worker
We break down OpenAI's Frontier—an AI 'co-worker' designed as real infrastructure—and its three pillars: shared business context, persistent identity, and governance. See how a manufacturer shortened a six‑week production optimization cycle to ...
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Systema Teleion: The Hidden Grid of Ancient Greek Music
We tour the ancient Greek musical system—from the tetrachord and the proslambanomenos to Systema Teleion and the three scale families (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic). We explore the Pythagorean quest for perfect ratios versus Aristoxenus’s ea...
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Lunar Infrastructure: LISTER, CELINE, and the Blueprint for a Moon City
We break down NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services, with robots LISTER and CELINE mapping subsurface heat and cosmic-ray radiation to reveal the Moon’s true hazards. From a small pneumatic 'shoot-and-clear' system to a site-agnostic lander,...
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