About
Why we make this
Science for Big Babies answers the questions people are too embarrassed to ask, with real science you can follow and remember.
What we're here for
We want to help people. A lot of good science sits in papers and textbooks that are hard to get into, so we take that real knowledge and make it easier to understand.
Accurate doesn't have to mean dry. We try to make the true version the fun one: an everyday picture, a clear animation and a fact you'll want to tell someone at dinner.
We also love questions that sound silly. Where does fat go when you lose weight? Questions like that usually have real logic behind them, and they deserve a good answer instead of a laugh.
Our motto
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
How we work
Start from a real question
Something people actually wonder about. If it doesn't make someone say "wait, really?", we pick another.
Analogy first, then the mechanism
Every episode opens with an everyday comparison that gets the idea right. Then it zooms in on what's really going on and says where the comparison breaks.
Every number has a source
Papers, textbooks and official agencies come first. Each claim is matched to a source before anything is recorded, and the full list is on every episode page under Sources and How we know.
A person checks it before it goes out
Nothing is published automatically. A human compares the facts with the sources and reviews the video, the captions, the title and this website.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we want to know. Tell us in the comments under the video, with a source if you have one.
We check it against the sources. If it's a real mistake, we fix the article and add a dated note saying what changed. For videos, we put the correction in the description and a pinned comment.
How we use AI
We use AI tools, and we'd rather tell you exactly where than leave you guessing.
- Our own animation
- Every frame is our own 2D and 3D animation, built in code. Real photos come only from the public domain or open licences, always credited.
- The creator's own voice, cloned
- The narration is the channel creator's own voice. When a line isn't read into a microphone, we use a clone of that same voice, made from the creator's own recordings with consent. It never imitates anyone else.
- Help with research
- AI assistants help us find sources, draft scripts and articles, and write the animation code. A person then checks every fact against its source.
- Some opening illustrations
- Occasionally a stylised, clearly non-realistic illustration. Never anything that looks like a real photo, a real event or a real person.
AI never decides what's true, never publishes anything, and never invents people, quotes or data.
Podcast
Long episodes get an audio version too, added to the feed as each one is released. It works in any podcast app: podcast.xml