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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

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4:41

OpenAI Frontier and the AI Co-Worker

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2026/02/08

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 a single day, and how cloud‑agnostic, memory‑driven AI is reshaping workflows with real deployments at State Farm and a global investment firm. We also cover practical steps for building AI‑enabled operations and what this means for the future of work. ...

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4:52

Systema Teleion: The Hidden Grid of Ancient Greek Music

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2026/02/08

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 ear, the shifting idea of modes (Dorian, Lydian, Phrygian) and the doctrine of ethos, and how a move to a fixed 12‑tone grid reshaped Western music. We also glimpse the modern revival of microtones and the enduring idea that the palette of sound is larger...

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4:45

Lunar Infrastructure: LISTER, CELINE, and the...

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2026/02/08

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, we explain how routine lunar deliveries are turning a distant outpost into buildable, enduring infrastructure—and the dawn of a lunar city. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical infor...

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Newgrange: The 17-Minute Sunbeam and the Dawn of...

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2026/02/08

We descend into County Meath to explore Newgrange, a 5,000-year-old monument whose roof box funnels a single winter solstice beam that travels 19 meters and lights the chamber for 17 minutes. We'll unravel the engineering genius of the corbelled vault, the logistics of moving stones without the wheel, and how the solstice rite weaves cosmos, myth (the Dagda), and social power. DNA clues suggest a ruling dynasty, offering a provocative view of ancient intelligence and humanity's oldest search ...

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5:31

Claude Opus 4.6: Adaptive Thinking, Agent Teams, and...

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2026/02/07

We unpack Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and its adaptive thinking: a metacognitive approach that decides when to think deeply or sprint and the move from a single tool to collaborative agent teams that coordinate across code, docs, and compliance. We examine the 1,000,000 token context window in beta, and impressive benchmarks like needle in a haystack, GDP value, and the gains over prior models. We discuss practical implications for business, including PowerPoint style data storytelling, safer...

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6:01

Towards Self-Driving Code Bases: Orchestrating...

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2026/02/07

An in-depth look at Cursor’s ambitious system that turned thousands of AI agents into a coordinated software factory. From the single-genius Opus 4.5 to a recursive, isolated hierarchy, we explore how isolation, slack, and precise prompting solved memory and throughput bottlenecks, why disk IO proved the ultimate constraint, and how the organization mirroring Conway’s law emerged as the fastest path to scalable code. Practical takeaways for teams eyeing AI-driven development. Note: This podc...

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4:22

Le Plasker: From Mesolithic Hut to Neolithic Tomb on...

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2026/02/07

In Brittany near Carnac, Le Plasker reveals a time-spanning story: a Mesolithic hut dating to about 5700 BC was abandoned for 300 years, then a Neolithic tomb was built atop the old ditch. Rather than a quiet cemetery, the site becomes a living landscape: 46 granite blocks were scattered to fashion an artificial rocky landscape that made the ridge look untouched, with hearths and cooking pits aligned with the monuments, showing people gathering here across centuries. This episode rethinks meg...

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4:22

Heavy Waves: Quantum Superpositions in Sodium...

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2026/02/07

We explore a Nature study that pushes quantum interference to masses of 170,000 daltons—sodium clusters of 5–10,000 atoms delocalized across 133 nm in a Talbot-Lau interferometer. The result challenges macrorealism and confirms the Schrödinger equation at a scale never before seen, achieving a macroscopicity score of 15.5—tenfold improvement over the previous record. Looking ahead to the million-dalton target, we discuss how these experiments edge toward the quantum-gravity boundary and what ...

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5:15

The Skeleton of a Song: Roman Numerals and the...

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2026/02/06

We dive into Roman numeral analysis—the universal translator for harmony. From I–IV–V and inversions to borrowed chords and modal interchange, learn how the same structural skeleton underpins Bach, the Beatles, and modern pop. Discover why V resolves to I as emotional gravity, how transposing becomes effortless when you think in numbers, and how this timeless grammar reveals the hidden physics of music. A practical guide to listening, composing, and playing with a surprisingly universal langu...

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5:22

Meltwater, Micro-Engineering, and the Curling Stone:...

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2026/02/06

We unpack how thermodynamics and tribology turn vigorous sweeping into real-time ice engineering. Learn how a nanometer-thick meltwater film lowers friction, why the curling stone curls in the direction of its spin, and how the 'running band' carves its own track to guide the stone. A physics-minded tour of the sport's precision—and its controversies. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk...

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5:18

IceCube: A Deep Ice Window into the Neutrino Universe

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2026/02/06

IceCube tunes into the cosmos by catching the faint blue Cherenkov light when a high-energy neutrino interacts in the ice. We explore the engineering marvel of hot-water drilling, thousands of sensors, and the science of ghost particles that travel unscathed across the universe. Learn how a detected neutrino traced to a distant blazar in 2018 sparked multi-messenger astronomy, the first neutrino map of the Milky Way, and ongoing hunts for dark matter—reminding us that billions of neutrinos ar...

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4:53

Ancient Zapotec Engineering

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2026/02/06

A tour of Monte Alban's audacious engineering: how a rugged mountaintop was leveled into a 15,000-person plaza with cut-and-fill, how earthquake-resistant teplera walls and multifunctional terraces stabilized slopes, farmed land, and captured rainfall. We decode Building J’s alignment with the zenith passage, explore a cosmos-integrated urbanism, and discuss the 2026 San Pablo Yuitzo tomb discovery that reveals a regional backbone of resilient architecture and a model for sustainable, integra...

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4:48

Ancient Automata: Hephaestus, Talos, and the Birth of...

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2026/02/05

We trace humanity’s oldest dreams of intelligent machines—from Hephaestus’s golden tripods and living handmaidens to Talos the programmable sentinel. Explore how these myths encode early engineering logic—open‑loop control, single‑point failures, pneumatics—and the idea of assistive embodied intelligence designed to augment human life. Then connect these ancient visions to modern robotics and AI, showing that the future grows from the oldest ideas. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and so...

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4:31

Doggerland: The Lost Mesolithic World Beneath the...

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2026/02/05

A journey back to the Mesolithic shoreline that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. We explore Doggerland’s lush coastlines, lagoons, and reed beds, meet the Maglemosian hunter-gatherers, and trace how modern seismic mapping is reviving a vanished world beneath the North Sea. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

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Stygiomedusa Gigantica: The Giant Phantom Jelly of...

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2026/02/05

Dive into the bathypelagic dark to meet the 33-foot Stygiomedusa Gigantica, a stinger-less giant that drifts like a cloak and swallows prey as its bell expands. Its four long oral arms act as a living net, while a small fish, Thalassobathia pelagica, lives among its arms in a mutualist relationship. The jelly reproduces viviparously with brood pouches, a rare trait among ctenophores, and its extreme physiology reveals how life survives under crushing pressure. We explore why this giant remain...

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4:10

Apples Turn Brown To Defend Themselves

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2026/02/05

Why do apples brown so fast? We dive into enzymatic browning: how broken cells unleash PPO on phenolics, forming ortho-quinones and melanin in a blink. Learn why lemon juice stops it, why some varieties stay white longer, and how this tiny plant battle hints at design and resilience. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

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Bioengineered Fire: Could Nature Build a Dragon?

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2026/02/04

We explore a provocative science thought-experiment: could biology assemble a fire-breathing creature? By unpacking three constraints—fuel, ignition, and thermodynamics—we survey high-level, plausible mechanisms: energy-dense terpenoid oils as fuel, bioelectric spark generation as ignition, and flame-control strategies like flame arrestors and evaporative cooling. The result suggests flight for a dragon-sized fire breather is unlikely, but a land-dwelling 'flame basilisk'—smaller, formidable,...

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PaperBanana: A Multi-Agent Studio for Faithful...

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2026/02/04

We explore PaperBanana, a multi-agent framework from Peking University and Google Cloud AI that turns research prose into accurate, publication-ready diagrams. Retrievers scout for structural bones, planners map concepts to that skeleton, stylists enforce academic aesthetics, and a visualizer/critic loop iterates to squash hallucinations. It even writes Matplotlib code for charts to guarantee numerical precision and offers a napkin-sketch glow-up to polish rough ideas into publishable figures...

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Engineering Breakfast: The Pancake as a Fluid...

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2026/02/04

We turn breakfast into physics: optimizing pancake thickness, batter viscosity, and pan heat to maximize Maillard flavor while keeping the center fluffy. From the 190°C target to the Leidenfrost signal and the single-flip rule, learn how to design the perfect pancake like an engineer. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and sometimes AI can make mistakes. Please double-check any critical information. Sponsored by Embersilk LLC

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Tensegrity: Floating Compression and the Shape of...

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2026/02/03

We unpack tensegrity—the architecture of floating compression. Tracing its history from artists like Snelson and Fuller to modern bridges like Brisbane’s Kurilpa Bridge, we see how isolated compression elements are held in a continuous tension network. Then we explore bio-applications—from biotensegrity in the skeleton and cytoskeleton to NASA-inspired compliant robots—revealing a unifying principle of resilience, efficiency, and adaptable strength. Note: This podcast was AI-generated, and s...

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