KABGemini podcasts project#

Last tended 2026-02-03

As noted, I am a geek, a driven knowledge seeker, AND a fitness jogger. I jog daily and listen to audio books as I go (thank you Jefferson County and Denver public libraries!). However, I have a spectrum of interests, and I've increasingly longed for podcast-format materials for cases like the following:

  • emergent topics for which no audiobook has been released yet
  • emergent, podcast-covered topics that I want to probe in a different way
  • a synthesis of two topics that seem to me to be compellingly related
  • really old topics, including deep dives into decades-old books that are unlikely to ever be put in audio format

My geek solution is to leverage the extraordinary toolkit of free services and tools presently at hand. My current method is to collaborate with Gemini 3 to produce a written podcast script of the desired run time and content depth. I then take Gemini's script (plain old text) and feed it into the Python-based tool edge-tts to generate an mp3 audio file. The edge-tts module wraps Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service, which provides a suite of life-like voices to choose from as my podcast "host."

The library#

Icon The Balfour Declaration saga re-examined From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 (February 4, 2026)
My starting requirements to Gemini: a history of the Balfour Declaration that spans from the earliest inception of the British considering making such a declaration right up to how it was received by all of the stakeholders as it came to their attention after its release. Further, elaborate on the views, influences, and constraints on each of the key people in a position to inform or influence Balfour and his team as they approached the decision.
61 minutes
Icon Amplituhedron: jewel at the end of spacetime From a collaboration with Google Gemini 3 (February 6, 2026)
My starting requirements to Gemini: Explain how the Amplituhedron theory got its start in recent years, who are the principal researchers and institutions behind it. Explain the theory itself for the common science enthusiast. Explain how it dethrones spacetime from fundamental status and any controversy and disruption that has caused. Explain if and how the theory has evolved and improved to establish its acceptance. Explain if spacetime's utility is now in something like the status of Newtonian physics with respect to space flight: still useful in non-relativistic cases. Reflect on where the Amplituhedron theory may lead us next.
64 minutes

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