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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. Dianna's Intro Physics Class: Trailer - Physics 101, AP Physics 1 Review with Physics Girl

    · 4:15 · Episode 37

    In this class we will cover these topics: 1D Motion Free Fall 2D Motion Newton’s Laws Free Body Diagrams Friction Circular Motion Gravity & Orbits Energy & Work Energy Conservation Power Momentum Impulse Collisions…

  2. I found a Mud Volcano in California

    · 4:48 · Episode 36

    Subscribe for more physics, science and curious phenomena. Why are there holes all over the southern California desert? This area is a unique basin that should actually be 20,000 ft below sea level. So I traveled there…

  3. What happened to my face

    · 3:42 · Episode 35

    What happened to my face

  4. Why Elon Musk is Really Building Starlink

    · 15 min · Episode 34

    Why Elon Musk is Really Building Starlink

  5. Formula 1, Explained for Rookies

    · 13 min · Episode 33

    Formula 1, Explained for Rookies

  6. The Real Fight Over AI Art

    · 14 min · Episode 32

    Why DALLE, Midjourney, and other AI image generation tools are so controversial... Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories! You’ve probably heard about the AI that can make any image you want. With…

  7. Would You Use An Artificial Womb? (I Would)

    · 16 min · Episode 31

    Artificial wombs are the stuff of science fiction, the scary kind. I think of The Matrix, when Neo wakes up in the real world, covered in goo. But in recent years, researchers have taken enormous leaps in helping…

  8. The Shoe That Broke Running

    · 16 min · Episode 30

    When is sports gear so good it’s actually cheating? Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories! There is a ton of cool sports gear that’s banned from sports for making athletes too good. Swimsuits that make…

  9. Quantum Computers, explained with MKBHD

    · 17 min · Episode 29

    You’ve heard about quantum computers. Maybe you’ve seen the “race for quantum supremacy” between governments and companies, or read that quantum computers will break all encryption, or heard terms like “qubits” or…

  10. Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought

    · 20 min · Episode 28

    I’m finally learning the truth about dinosaurs. I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was a kid, but it turns out a lot of what I thought I knew is wrong… or at the least outdated. So, in this video, I’m gonna show you the…

  11. Why NASA Is Sending This Truck To The Moon

    · 23 min · Episode 27

    This truck is going to the moon. So we put it to the test… Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans. Use code CLEO at checkout.

  12. The New Hunt for the Colossal Squid

    · 18 min · Episode 26

    The New Hunt for the Colossal Squid

  13. The Truth About Egg Freezing

    · 21 min · Episode 25

    The Truth About Egg Freezing

  14. The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps.

    · 13 min · Episode 24

    Why deep sea maps are SO BAD (and how to fix it)... Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories. Our maps of the ocean are surprisingly bad! On Google Maps it looks like we know so much… but we know less…

  15. The Real Reason To Care About The Apple Vision Pro

    · 17 min · Episode 23

    Honestly, with all the jargon and hype (VR! AR! Spatial computing! Metaverse!), I’ve been tuning out the news about these devices for a while. But now, I think it’s time to turn the volume back up and pay attention.…

  16. Why This Robot Kills Weeds With Lasers

    · 15 min · Episode 22

    Right now, we’re living through one of the most pivotal moments in food history… and most people have no idea it’s happening.

  17. Quantum Computers, explained with MKBHD

    · 17 min · Episode 21

    You’ve heard about quantum computers. Maybe you’ve seen the “race for quantum supremacy” between governments and companies, or read that quantum computers will break all encryption, or heard terms like “qubits” or…

  18. Humanity’s Real Plan to Stop This Asteroid (Feat. Mark Rober)

    · 22 min · Episode 20

    Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size of a mountain, far off in our solar system is on a direct impact course for Earth. How would we know? And what would we actually DO about it? In this video, we play out a…

  19. Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists

    · 16 min · Episode 17

    Every four years, people lose their minds over one Olympic sport. They make fun of it! But the more I learned about it, the more obsessed I got… and I realized that all these people making fun? They’re getting this…

  20. Something’s Happening to the Ozone Hole

    · 16 min · Episode 19

    This is ANTARCTICA. And in 1985, it became the center of a global crisis… Directly over Antarctica, high up in the stratosphere was a massive hole. And if we hadn’t done anything about it, today, we’d be living in an…

  21. Jony Ive Shows The Real Process Behind the Ferrari Luce

    · 45 min · Episode 18

    The first all electric Ferrari, the Ferrari Luce, isn't what you think... (feat. Apple legend Jony Ive and Ferrari Chief Designer Flavio Manzoni) For more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe to HUGE*! You’re…

  22. The Massive Machine at the Bottom of the Sea

    · 16 min · Episode 16

    Off the coast of Sicily, there’s a massive underwater machine. It looks like a forest of floating spheres… And on the surface, hidden in an abandoned winery, a computer watches them and waits. And in 2023, they saw…

  23. What If You Just Keep Digging?

    · 12 min · Episode 15

    Have you ever thought, “what if I just dug a really really deep hole?” Well, the USSR actually did. The hole they dug is deeper than the deepest part of the ocean. It’s deeper than Mt. Everest is tall! They began…

  24. What If You Just Keep Digging?

    · 12 min · Episode 14

    Have you ever thought, “what if I just dug a really really deep hole?” Well, the USSR actually did. The hole they dug is deeper than the deepest part of the ocean. It’s deeper than Mt. Everest is tall! They began…

  25. Why Aren't Planes Electric Yet?

    · 9:49 · Episode 13

    Electric planes are already here. But they don't look like I thought... If you want more optimistic stories about technology, subscribe to support our show! Are electric planes possible? And if so, when are they…

  26. How This Telescope Searches For Aliens

    · 5:13 · Episode 12

    This new image will help us answer the biggest question: Are we alone? Subscribe if you love optimistic technology stories. NASA just released the first pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful…

  27. The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

    · 8:52 · Episode 11

    I’ve been thinking about energy use all wrong. Subscribe to support Huge If True, an optimistic tech show. As long as most of our energy still comes from fossil fuels, we’re in kind of a trap. Using less energy is our…

  28. Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists

    · 16 min · Episode 10

    Every four years, people lose their minds over one Olympic sport. They make fun of it! But the more I learned about it, the more obsessed I got… and I realized that all these people making fun? They’re getting this…

  29. Why More Sports Need Robot Referees

    · 8:32 · Episode 9

    this video create was 2023 but recently I create new podcast so I posted this show.

  30. Something Huge Is Coming...

    · 2:34 · Episode 8

    Over the past two years on Huge If True, we’ve explored all kinds of new ideas and technologies that could change the world we live in. Like quantum computers, particle colliders, humanoid robots, new supersonic…

  31. 5 Wild Experiments In Zero Gravity (Bonus Episode)

    · 11 min · Episode 7

    I'm scanning my brain inside a plane that’s about to DIVE toward the ground… to test how weightlessness helps or hurts your brain. And it’s just one of the 5 crazy science experiments I got to test inside a Zero G…

  32. Humanity’s Real Plan to Stop This Asteroid (Feat. Mark Rober)

    · 22 min · Episode 6

    If an asteroid is coming for Earth… what would we really do? Have a coffee with me! Try Cometeer with code CLEO for $20 off your Discovery Box on Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size of a mountain, far off in our…

  33. What's Hidden Under Antarctica?

    · 19 min · Episode 5

    In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they suddenly stopped. Because they’d found something unimaginable: Liquid water. A secret lake,…

  34. The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built

    · 18 min · Episode 4

    In the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE concrete tubes. They’re part of a giant machine running the most precise experiment humans have ever built… Each tube is 4 kilometers long, and inside…

  35. Jony Ive Shows The Real Process Behind the Ferrari Luce

    · 45 min · Episode 3

    You’re about to see the first ever all electric Ferrari. A car Ferrari said they’d never make, that will probably be the most controversial car they’ve ever made. Above all, it will definitely be a massive risk – new…

  36. Why You Can't Just Screenshot an NFT

    · 12 min · Episode 2

    The biggest question I hear about NFTs is: “Why can’t I just screenshot that?” Or, put another way, why does a digital image that can be copied have any value? The answer, it turns out, isn’t in an explainer about…

  37. Why I left Vox

    · 6:16 · Episode 1

    Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated video producer and journalist. Cleo produces detailed explainer stories about technology and economics. She wrote the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained, was…

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