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Huge If True Podcast

cleoabram931

87 episodes

Cleo Abram is a video journalist who produces Huge If True, an optimistic show about science and technology. Huge If True is an antidote to the doom and gloom, helping a wide audience see better futures they can help build. In each episode, Cleo dives deep into one innovation that could shape the future. She has explored humanoid robots at Boston Dynamics, supersonic planes at NASA, quantum computers at IBM, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and more. Previously, Cleo was a video producer at Vox and directed for Explained on Netflix. She was the host of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as co-host of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

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  1. The Sun Is Weirder Than You Think

    · 18 min · Episode 87

    If you dove into the sun, the first layer you’d hit is hot enough to make diamonds BOIL. Right now we’re in a golden age of new solar science. For the first time, we’re getting close-up pictures of the Sun like we’ve…

  2. The Vomit Comet ft. Emily Calandrelli

    · 5:16 · Episode 86

    Emily Calandrelli is the host and co-producer of FOX's Xploration Outer Space. She is a grad from MIT and WVU with degrees in aeronautics astronautics, technology and policy

  3. World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train

    · 6:37 · Episode 85

    How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train? With science! This super simple DIY physics demo uses electromagnetic induction to propel a train made of magnets and batteries.

  4. Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

    · 5:45 · Episode 84

    Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

  5. How Rainbows Form

    · 3:54 · Episode 83

    How Rainbows Form

  6. Stacked Ball Drop

    · 3:33 · Episode 82

    What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece…

  7. Calculating Pi with Darts

    · 5:47 · Episode 81

    Pi can be calculated using a random sample of darts thrown at a square and circle target. The problem with this method lies in attempting to throw "randomly." We explored different ways to overcome our errors.

  8. Quarks Explained in Four Minutes

    · 4:18 · Episode 80

    Protons and neutrons are made of three quarks, right? Wrong! Explore the particle they should have told you about when you were a kid!

  9. What do programmers actually do?

    · 9:19 · Episode 79

    What do programmers actually do?

  10. This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…

    · 4:00 · Episode 78

    There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon. There appears to be no shadow because the sun is directly overhead. This phenomenon happens…

  11. Ballistic Ping Pong Ball vs. Tennis Ball at 450km/h!

    · 15 min · Episode 77

    What happens when you shoot a ballistic ping pong ball going 450kph at a tennis ball?

  12. How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT

    · 6:01 · Episode 76

    Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid.

  13. How to float a ping pong ball on air - The Coandă Effect

    · 1:27 · Episode 75

    Widely explained using the Bernoulli principle, this phenomenon is actually dominated by the Coanda effect.

  14. What do programmers actually do?

    · 9:19 · Episode 74

    I left a physics job to do software engineering. Was it worth it? What do software engineers actually do?

  15. How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

    · 8:28 · Episode 73

    How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

  16. Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe

    · 5:49 · Episode 72

    Beyond molecules and atoms, how far down can we see below the wavelength of visible light? What is the smallest possible scale in the universe?

  17. Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

    · 5:55 · Episode 71

    Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

  18. What's in the darkest part of the sky? The Hubble Deep Field

    · 2:41 · Episode 70

    What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope at the darkest part of the sky for 10 consecutive days? Besides using up extremely valuable time, what would you find?

  19. Singing plates - Standing Waves on Chladni plates

    · 4:19 · Episode 69

    Use physics to create cool patterns on a vibrating plate. How is this like a guitar string or a singing wine glass?

  20. Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can Ski Down Them | Climate Games

    · 9:51 · Episode 68

    How badly is our planet heating up? I’ve put together an experiment that asks: How much of an olympic-sized swimming pool would be filled with glacial meltwater in the time it takes to ski down a glacier? Helping me -…

  21. SLOW MOTION SCIENCE! Ferrofluid dropping on magnet

    · 7:52 · Episode 67

    See ferrofluid falling on a magnet filmed at 1000fps. How does the science of falling ferrofluid droplets mimic speghettification while falling into a black hole?

  22. Gravitational Waves Discovered for the First Time!

    · 4:32 · Episode 66

    In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black holes merged 1.3 billion lightyears away, had created waves that passed by the LIGO…

  23. How does laser cooling work?

    · 5:56 · Episode 65

    How can light be used to cool atoms and molecules ? Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can also be used to cool objects to some of the coldest temperatures in the…

  24. How science explains monster waves

    · 6:16 · Episode 64

    Rogue waves - enormous, spontaneous surface waves in the open ocean - were once the tall tales of sailors. They are waves that reach 2-3x taller than the largest average waves in the area, reaching heights of 75 –…

  25. Craziest eclipses in the solar system

    · 5:04 · Episode 63

    Craziest eclipses in the solar system. .....

  26. Experiments with $100,000+ Speakers

    · 7:50 · Episode 62

    new show SoundField as they experiment with giant $100,000 speakers and aim them at your body parts looking for resonance, at oobleck, at googly eyes, and at candles to explore the physics of sound.

  27. Can you take perfect 3D photos?

    · 5:11 · Episode 61

    3D movies and TV are is increasing in popularity, but is any of it truly 3D? How true is the 3D in movie theaters? How do glassess-less 3D TVs work? Try catching a ball with one eye closed. If you find it easy, try…

  28. New Horizons first probe to reach pluto!

    · 5:11 · Episode 60

    The New Horizons probe reached its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015 at 7:49 EST. We have received more and more detailed images and data about the dwarf planet and its largest moon, Charon. Very exciting times!

  29. Are perpetual motion machines possible?

    · 5:03 · Episode 59

    A wheel that spins forever; a bird that never quenches its thirst; a clock that never stops ticking, an endless source of free energy. These are but the dreams of inventors striving to make perpetual motion machines,…

  30. Everything you should know about TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets

    · 11 min · Episode 58

    The TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system has seven earth-like planets and is only 39 lightyears away! I am joined by Professor Adam Burgasser and Dr. Katherine Deck, both astrophysicists on the Nature paper to discuss the…

  31. Oxygen is MAGNETIC?!

    · 6:15 · Episode 57

    Liquid oxygen has unusual magnetic properties. This demonstration with the MIT Technical Services Group and a crazy blowtorch demonstration on the curie point of iron share a glimpse into how different kinds of…

  32. SPOOL RIDDLE - Which way will it roll?

    · 3:57 · Episode 56

    Can you answer the spool riddle? Special guest Anne Wojcicki joins Physics Girl for the answer(s?!) to the hiker riddle and to hear the next riddle

  33. Amusing Surface Tension Experiment

    · 2:39 · Episode 55

    How does soap change the surface tension of water? I have used my degree to make a fifth video -- for you all -- to explain this very question.

  34. How to Make a Cloud in Your Mouth

    · 3:59 · Episode 54

    Learn how to make a wispy cloud come out of your mouth, even when it's not cold out. Like any awesome trick, physics is to thank for the mouth cloud. This simple and fun demonstration can be used to explain the cloud…

  35. Stacked Ball Drop

    · 3:33 · Episode 53

    What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece…

  36. 5 physics experiments for the holidays!

    · 2:53 · Episode 52

    These 5 holiday-themed physics experiments will keep you and your family busy with science during the winter holidays! All experiments involve materials found around the house. Parental supervision advised . Flame…

  37. What is a quantum coin toss?

    · 6:33 · Episode 51

    Quantum coin flipping is the fairest way to flip a coin over the phone. How does it work?!

  38. Crazy tic tac bounce!? | EVERYDAY MYSTERIES

    · 7:26 · Episode 50

    Tic tacs have the strangest behavior when you bounce them on a very hard surface. What is going on?! Find out the physics.

  39. Bowl Riddle Solution (Plus 2 BONUS riddles) ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider part 2/3

    · 6:23 · Episode 49

    See if you can solve the next two riddles in this video: (1) the silent round riddle (2) the broom riddle ft. Kurt Hugo Schneider!

  40. Why are there giant concrete tunnels in the desert?

    · 11 min · Episode 48

    Thanks to LIGO Hanford, Michael Landry, Amber Strunk, Sharan Banagiri and Salvatore Vitale.

  41. Why are there giant concrete tunnels in the desert?

    · 11 min · Episode 47

    Thanks to LIGO Hanford, Michael Landry, Amber Strunk, Sharan Banagiri and Salvatore Vitale.

  42. Ice Diamond Riddle SOLUTION ft. Vsauce's Michael Stevens

    · 6:56 · Episode 46

    Ice Diamond Riddle SOLUTION ft. Vsauce's Michael Stevens

  43. What stretching actually does to your body ft. Sofie Dossi

    · 8:14 · Episode 45

    Ever wondered, what does stretching do to your muscles and your body? What in the best way to stretch? Science has some answers.

  44. How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT

    · 6:01 · Episode 44

    Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid.

  45. How Mirrors Could Solve our Energy Problem

    · 11 min · Episode 43

    We visited a giant field of solar mirrors to learn about Concentrated Solar Power technology!

  46. It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang

    · 11 min · Episode 42

    Creator/Host: Dianna Cowern Editor: Levi Butner Expanding Universe Animation: Keegan Larwin Cosmology Consultant: Dr. Ethan Siegel

  47. First Update From Dianna

    · 12 min · Episode 41

    First Update From Dianna

  48. What Schrödinger’s cat REALLY means

    · 11 min · Episode 40

    What Schrödinger’s cat REALLY means

  49. 99 Years Later... We Solved It

    · 14 min · Episode 39

    Special thank you to our X-Ray tier patrons: Adrian Archuleta, Austin Rose, Carlos Patricio, Christopher Kemsley, David Cichowski, Fabrice Eap, Gil Chesterton, Gnare, Isabel Herstek, Margaux Lopez, Matt Kaminski,…

  50. This result could change physics forever

    · 13 min · Episode 38

    This result could change physics forever

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