Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
iHeartradio
A fun-filled podcast about the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple but profound questions that people have been wondering about for thousands of years, explaining the science in a fun, shorts-wearing and jargon-free way.
Explain the Universe is no longer making new episodes.
But you are invited to hear Daniel and Kelly on their new podcast!
Hosts of the Show
Daniel Whiteson
Daniel Whiteson is a physics professor at UCIrvine, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He does research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and is looking forward to meeting aliens.
Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham is the creator of the popular online comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD Comics). He earned a Ph.D. in robotics at Stanford. He eats a banana before every podcast.
Guest hosts
Kelly Weinersmith
Kelly Weinersmith is an adjunct assistant professor at Rice University, and president of the Helminthological Society of Washington. She writes pop-sci books on tech and space, and her research is all about parasites that manipulate their host’s behavior. She probably won’t accidentally start the zombie apocalypse.
Katie Goldin
Katie hosts the evolutionary biology podcast Creature Feature, which delves into the minds of animals (and incidentally, humans). She studied psychology and evolutionary biology at Harvard, and enjoys combining scientific communication with dumb jokes. She absolutely hates bananas.
We Wrote a Book!
Available now for pre-order, out Nov 2, 2021
We’ve all got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.
As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questions. Why can’t I travel back in time? Where did the universe come from? What’s inside a black hole? Can I rearrange the particles in my cat and turn it into a dog?
This witty, entertaining, and fully-illustrated book is an essential troubleshooting guide for the perplexing aspects of reality, big and small, from the invisible particles that make up your body to the identical version of you currently reading this exact sentence in the corner of some other galaxy. If the universe came with an FAQ, this would be it.
