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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Intellectually Curious
Meteotsunami: When Weather Makes Waves
On a perfect coastal day, a sudden drop in water level can be followed by a towering, tsunami-like surge—with no earthquake. This episode explains meteorological tsunamis: how rapid atmospheric pressure changes from squall lines and severe storms displace water and trigger resonance that amplifies a small ripple into a powerful wave train. We'll see how coastline shape funnels energy, explore notable examples like the 1978 Vela Luka wave, and discuss how scientists fuse atmospheric data with deep-ocean pressure sensors and tide gauges to tell weather-driven waves apart from true tsunamis. With only about 3% of historical tsunamis confirmed as meteorological, there’s a lot more to learn—and that ongoing discovery is reshaping how we monitor coastlines worldwide.
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