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Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?

· 47 min · S1 E41

Episode Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?

0:00 47:06

Does "the cloud" hold more data than a clouds hold raindrops? Can a new organ literally rewrite your personality?

Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens, VSauce, weigh our massive digital servers against a standard downpour, before unpicking the biology of transplant patients suddenly waking up with entirely new cravings.

Michael also has a new Curiosity Box coming featuring an altertative periodic table disguised as a snail pin badge to showoff to Hannah.

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Video Producer: Adam Thornton + Oli Oakley + Jack Meek

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