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
Klein-Gordon: The Relativistic Misfit That Became a Particle Physics Prophet
In 1926 Klein, Gordon, and Fock crafted a perfectly symmetric relativistic wave equation that failed to describe the electron’s hydrogen spectrum because electrons have spin. Yet decades later it found its moment in scalar fields and antiparticles, culminating with the Higgs boson in 2012. This episode traces how a discarded tool became indispensable, and what it teaches us about science: sometimes being wrong is exactly what you need to be right.
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