ScienceStuff
Hosted by Jorge Cham and Jorge · iHeartPodcasts
4.5from 122 ratings
- 69
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 122
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About ScienceStuff
Ever wonder if your pet is lying to you, what's inside a black hole, or whether you'd survive being cryogenically frozen? With infectious curiosity, cartoonist and former roboticist Jorge Cham makes science fun and accessible as he answers your biggest questions on the ScienceStuff podcast.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- education · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 15 May 2026
Latest episodes
13 of 69 episodes have a transcript.
15 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is A.I. Going to Kill Us All?
7 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Makes Traffic So Bad?
2 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can We Talk to Dolphins?
Inside a recent episode
Is A.I. Going to Kill Us All?
Published 15 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Which brings us to the main question of the day. What can we do about it? How do you train an AI to care about us, to have our values and to make the right choices? To answer this question, I reached out to another AI expert on alignment, Dr. Tim Rudner. Dr. Rudner is a professor at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toronto, and he says there are many ways to train AI's to like us. The only problem is none of them work perfectly. So here's my conversation with Dr. Tim Rudner. Well, thank you, Dr. Rudner, for joining us. Thanks so much for having me on it. And I'm talking to a real person right now, right? […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on ScienceStuff
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- neuroscientists
- Matt Siegler
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Christina Hunger
- Federico Rossano
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 73 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 49 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 67
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 84
Contact ScienceStuff
- Guest appearances
- Does not typically book guests
Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.
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Questions about ScienceStuff
Who hosts ScienceStuff?
Jorge Cham and Jorge host the show. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does ScienceStuff take guests?
The show does not typically feature guests, based on episode analyses.
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