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Video journalist making optimistic tech explainers. Huge If True.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabramTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Twitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabramIf you'd like to sponsor a Huge If True episode, reach out at the email below.If you're looking for my bio, here it is: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.Links:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabramTwitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabramUnofficial fan audio feed — not affiliated with or endorsed by the original creator. All content belongs to its respective owner.
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The Real Reason We Should Revive Extinct Animals
The real story about “de-extinction”... Try RHINOSHIELD with code CLEO for 10% off https://url.rhinoshield.io/CLEO The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1982. But now… scientists are trying to bring it …
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The real story about “de-extinction”...
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The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1982. But now… scientists are trying to bring it BACK.
And it’s not alone! You might’ve seen news about dire wolves, woolly mammoths, passenger pigeons… dodo birds… dinosaurs??
“De-extinction” has become a huge and urgent scientific debate. But when I took a deep dive into what’s really going on here, I realized we're getting this conversation very, very wrong.
We're on the cusp of a huge genetic breakthrough… and yet the most "huge if true" thing happening here isn’t bringing back extinct animals. It's what this means for all the animals alive today!
And very few people seem to know about it…
Chapters:
00:19 Can we bring back extinct animals?
01:22 Can we bring back a mammoth?
02:24 Is Jurassic Park possible?
05:44 Are Dire Wolves brought back from the dead?
6:26 What is de-extinction?
09:04 How do we save cute little animals?
11:08 Is the Tasmanian tiger coming back?
12:50 When is it ok to bring back an extinct animal?
14:09 What’s coming next for de-extinction?
15:10 Why is this huge if true?
15:42 :)
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- SciShow “What Caused the Mass Extinction of Billions of Passenger Pigeons?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twr53QVGh0E
- Colossal "The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years" https://youtu.be/vPX4tm-J2bU?si=RtSR_kFiJsueBzVL
- PBS Terra “What if we Brought Back the Passenger Pigeon”: https://youtu.be/7z8rXihJV4Y?si=QhhVkvc0u0fjZ8WE
- Nature on PBS “Coral Reefs That Can Finally Beat the Heat | WILD HOPE”: https://youtu.be/adcfkAplT_4?si=f4wby33bHOUTrDT-
- TIME “No Longer Extinct? Colossal Biosciences' Dire Wolf Project” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ta3TX2Zgw
- Science Magazine “Pleistocene Park: Born to rewild” https://youtu.be/IWnlPYu3ovQ?si=9fAMoiQtMSy8Wm14
- Be Smart “The Strange Evolutionary Story of the Thylacine”: https://youtu.be/fHs_lniTNvI?si=Hq3G4GOFuFSsfL5l
- The Joe Rogan Experience “#2338 - Beth Shapiro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMH1-Bbqr0
- You can learn more about Black Footed Ferrets and the work from Revive and Restore on their website: https://reviverestore.org/
- To read about the efforts to biobank animals check out the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance: https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/biodiversity-banking
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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Why Aren't Planes Electric Yet?
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 …
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Electric planes are already here. But they don't look like I thought...
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Are electric planes possible? And if so, when are they coming?? Turns out, they’re already here.
For this episode of Huge If True, I went to visit an electric plane company called Beta. Before the shoot, I thought the weight of batteries basically meant electric planes weren’t that useful, and wouldn’t be for a long time. What I learned is that in the last 10 years, we’ve gotten a lot better at making batteries (look at your phone!). Those gains mean electric planes are starting to do more. And that’s a big deal - for carbon emissions and climate change, but also for redesigning how planes look and fly. The future of aviation will look very different than the planes you take today.
I couldn’t fly in one of the electric planes (trust me, I tried!), but I did get up in the air another way…
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Chapters:
00:00 Electric planes are here
00:56 Why are electric planes important?
02:16 Why are there no electric planes?
03:36 How do electric planes work?
05:52 What do electric planes look like?
06:42 What is VTOL?
07:48 How do electric planes slow climate change?
09:14 What is the future of airplanes?
Sources and further reading:
- Carbon emissions from aviation, Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation
- Carbon emissions by short-haul v long-haul flights, Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/breakdown-co2-aviation
- Carbon emissions by short-haul more detail, ICCT: https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_CO2-commercl-aviation-2018_20190918.pdf
- More on Beta in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/business/beta-electric-airplane.html
- Airships through the ages, The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/airships-through-the-ages
- Battery math for volumetric energy density (Wh/L):
2010: Aviation fuel is ~30-34 MJ/L = ~8300-9000 Wh/L = ~100x lithium ion batteries in 2010 which were about 90 (source: Dept of Energy).
2020: Aviation fuel remains ~30-34 MJ/L = ~8300-9000 Wh/L = ~20x lithium ion batteries in 2020 which were about 450 (source: Dept of Energy). https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-april-18-2022-volumetric-energy-density-lithium-ion-batteries
- Battery math for gravimetric energy density (Wh/kg):
2010: Aviation fuel is 46.2 MJ/kg (roughly) = 12833 Wh/kg = 12833 / 250 = ~50x lithium ion batteries in 2010 which were roughly 250 (source: Beta).
2020: Aviation fuel remains ~46.2 MJ/kg = 12833 Wh/kg = 12833 / 370 = ~34x lithium ion batteries in 2020 which were roughly 250 (source: Beta).
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Bio:
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 the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. She now makes her own independent show, Huge If True. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why NASA Is Sending This Truck To The Moon
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. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/cleoThis is the world’s …
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This truck is going to the moon. So we put it to the test…
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This is the world’s first “space truck.” It’s going to the moon to help us go farther, faster, and discover places we’ve never been…
Because humans are about to go back to the moon for the first time in 50 years! And no one but its builders have ever driven it… until today.
In this video I'm going to put this brand new space truck to the test in a series of 5 challenges. And I've invited someone who knows a thing or two about challenges: YouTube daredevil and host of Challenge Accepted… Michelle Khare!
Let’s go.
Subscribe to @MichelleKhare 's channel for Challenge Accepted: https://www.youtube.com/@MichelleKhare
Chapters:
0:00 This is the world’s first space truck
0:38 Introducing Michelle Khare!
01:04 What is a space truck?
01:52 How do astronauts drive?
02:21 First impressions!
02:47 Moon truck v normal truck
04:47 How fast can you drive on the moon?
05:18 Will we crash?
08:36 Can we break the lunar speed record?
10:33 Why go faster on the moon?
11:12 How does an astronaut get rescued?
13:52 Can this truck drive itself?
17:00 Why do we need a self-driving space truck?
17:48 How does an astronaut gather samples?
22:03 NIGHT DRIVING
22:41 Why is this Space Truck huge if true?
23:00 :)
Bio: Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Watch Michelle’s new video doing Tom Cruise's deadliest stunt: https://youtu.be/IcDr8_oleB4?si=K7wuiEjv3Xkk9fs0
- Watch Michelle do another incredible challenge: Houdini’s Deadliest Trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UdXsm9gJ-s
- How to Make A Space Truck: Welcome to Lunar Outpost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmHh6AMeMHU
- How We Are Going to the Moon (NASA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8cn2J13-4
- Apollo Moon Landing, NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcDftgR5UQ
- How Could We Build a Moon Base Today, Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8
- Moon 101, NatGeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AviDjR9mmo
- How NASA Drives the $144M Vehicle that Transports Rocket Ships, Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5caQPiRBCAA
- Lunar Outpost LTV: https://www.lunaroutpost.com/ltv
- NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicles: https://www.nasa.gov/suits-and-rovers/lunar-terrain-vehicle/
- Three Commercial Moon Rovers Undergo Testing at NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/new-commercial-artemis-moon-rovers-undergo-testing-at-nasa/
- NASA Selects Companies to build Lunar Terrain Vehicles https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-companies-to-advance-moon-mobility-for-artemis-missions/
- NASA Artemis Mission https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cleoabram
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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We Tried To Do Nuclear Fusion
We attempted nuclear fusion. In Simone’s workshop.Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories!Disclaimer: This build was supervised by experts at Helion. Do not try this at home.I still can’t believe …
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We attempted nuclear fusion. In Simone’s workshop.
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Disclaimer: This build was supervised by experts at Helion. Do not try this at home.
I still can’t believe this video really happened. Back in May, I interviewed Helion CEO David Kirtley. I was trying to understand nuclear fusion: Is nuclear fusion possible now? How does fusion actually work? And most importantly, is nuclear fusion the future? Then, at the end of the interview, I asked David about headlines I’d seen about people building nuclear fusion devices in their backyards - what were they doing? “Oh,” David replied, “you can build one.”
What followed is the biggest adventure yet on Huge If True. Together with the team at Helion and my friend fellow YouTuber Simone Giertz, we BUILT A NUCLEAR FUSION DEVICE to show how nuclear fusion works, what the big remaining challenges are, and how it might help us all in the future.
Then, the last step was to try to turn it on…
WATCH "FUSION, EXPLAINED: PART 1" HERE: https://youtu.be/piPbnKdve9M
HUGE (no asterisk) thank you to David, Jessie, Ron, Joben, and the entire team at Helion for helping make our nuclear fusion dreams possible. It's truly a life moment I'll never forget and I'm so grateful.
Watch Simone’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@simonegiertz
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Chapters:
00:00 We’re trying to do nuclear fusion
01:48 What is nuclear fusion?
02:48 How do you build a fusion device?
03:37 How is nuclear fusion possible?
04:36 What is the big challenge with fusion?
05:36 What does nuclear fusion look like?
06:12 We’re great at this
07:08 UH OH
08:02 Here comes the fusion fuel!
08:32 The “Do Not Die” section
09:07 DID WE DO IT??
12:38 Is fusion possible at scale?
13:32 THANK YOU HELION
Sources and further reading:
- Nuclear fusion, simply explained: https://youtu.be/piPbnKdve9M
- “How Helion’s approach to fusion works” https://youtu.be/HlNfP3iywvI
- "Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes" (most recent news) https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7?shareType=nongift
- The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet, by Arthur Turrell: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Builders-Nuclear-Fusion-Planet/dp/1982130660
- The Future of Fusion Energy, by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Fusion-Energy-Jason-Parisi/dp/1786347490
- Atomic Awakening: A New Look At The History And Future Of Nuclear Power, by James Mahaffey: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Awakening-History-Future-Nuclear/dp/1605981273
- Principles Of Fusion Energy: An Introduction To Fusion Energy For Students Of Science And Engineering (Illustrated Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Fusion-Energy-Introduction-Engineering/dp/9812380337
- “Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy,” BBC: https://youtu.be/0fYiNVRmOA4
- “Fusion Power Explained: Future or Failure,” Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/mZsaaturR6E
- “We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor, The B1M: https://youtu.be/4BkOUOK0XzM
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Bio:
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 the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a hLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next
We’re about to time travel into the future Sam Altman is building… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories.I interviewed Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. They’re trying …
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We’re about to time travel into the future Sam Altman is building…
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I interviewed Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. They’re trying to build a “superintelligence” that could far exceed humans in almost every field – and they just released their most powerful tool yet, GPT-5.
A few years ago, that would’ve sounded like science fiction! Not anymore. In fact, they’re not alone. We’re in the middle of the most high stakes global race any of us have ever seen. Hundreds of billions of dollars and an unbelievable amount of human work…
It’s a profound moment. Most people never see a huge technological shift like this in their lives and it’s happening all around us right now. So in this conversation, I’m going to try to time travel into the future with Sam Altman, to see what he’s trying to build… so you and I can really understand what’s coming.
Welcome to HUGE* Conversations.
Chapters:
0:00 What future are we headed for?
2:06 What can GPT-5 do that GPT-4 can’t?
6:57 What does AI do to how we think?
10:52 When will AI make a significant scientific discovery?
13:09 What is superintelligence?
16:17 How does one AI determine “truth”?
18:35 It’s 2030. How do we know what’s real?
21:20 It’s 2035. What new jobs exist?
24:02 How do you build superintelligence?
26:00 What are the infrastructure challenges for AI?
28:18 What data does AI use?
29:50 What changed between GPT1 v 2 v 3…?
32:55 What went right and wrong building GPT-5?
35:40 “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI”
37:57 It’s 2040. What does AI do for our health?
40:00 Can AI help cure cancer?
41:10 Who gets hurt?
43:00 “The social contract may have to change”
45:22 What is our shared responsibility here?
49:21 “We haven’t put a sex bot avatar into ChatGPT yet”
51:40 What mistakes has Sam learned from?
53:10 “What have we done”?
57:40 How will I actually use GPT-5?
59:40 Why do people building AI say it’ll destroy us?
1:03:16 Why do this?
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Bio:
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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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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Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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The Electric Formula 1, Explained
The fight for the future of car racing has begun...If you want more optimistic stories about technology, subscribe to support our show!You already know about Formula 1. The car racing sport is famous around the …
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The fight for the future of car racing has begun...
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You already know about Formula 1. The car racing sport is famous around the world and is skyrocketing in popularity in the US in part because of the Netflix series Drive To Survive. But Formula 1 has a problem.
More and more the cars that we drive are going fully electric, and the cars that they drive… aren’t. That matters, because the real reason F1 gets all this money and attention is that big companies are investing in and advertising their cutting edge tech. If that tech gets outdated, it loses the point - and the extra investment. What is the future of car racing? If it’s electric, does F1 change? Or is someone else going to get there first?
Enter Formula E, the all-electric Formula 1.
In this video, we explore the future of car racing, explain Formula E’s amazing tech and wild rules, and break down the drama within one of the world’s most popular and expensive sports.
Chapters:
00:00 Will Formula 1 go electric?
1:27 What is Formula E?
2:13 How did Formula E start?
3:01 Why isn't F1 electric?
5:30 What are the rules of Formula E?
7:52 What does a Formula E car look like?
9:18 Are F1 cars hybrid?
10:13 Formula E Gen 3: What's new?
11:30 Why don't Formula E cars have rear brakes?
13:36 What is the future of car racing?
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- The FIA explaining Formula E: https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/what-is-formula-e
- My absolute favorite newsletter on F1, Engine Failure by Lily Herman: bit.ly/EngineFailureF1
- “An introduction to Formula E” by Chain Bear: https://youtu.be/eRNJpYUun0Q
- “F1 Drivers Explain F1,” from F1 https://youtu.be/twAlqtvVMdc
- “How a Formula 1 Race Car Works” by Animagraffs https://youtu.be/V7707zEX9X4
- “The Insane Logistics of F1,” by Wendover Productions https://youtu.be/6OLVFa8YRfM
- “Top 5 reasons you should watch Formula E” by Donut Media: https://youtu.be/Kvw96nu8KAE
- “How to Make F1 Sounds,” by Matt Chambers :) https://youtu.be/I_jDJvfYEgA
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed
Follow along for more episodes of Huge If True: https://www.youtube.com/cleoabram?sub_confirmation=1
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Zero Gravity Is Weirder Than You Think (Bonus Episode)
I tested 5 wild experiments in a zero gravity plane... Listen with me on Audible at https://www.audible.com/cleo I'm scanning my brain inside a plane that’s about to DIVE toward the ground… to test how …
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I tested 5 wild experiments in a zero gravity plane...
Listen with me on Audible at https://www.audible.com/cleo
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 plane.
I recently went on this Zero G plane to explain a big debate about gravity, and while I was there, I also got exclusive access to experiments that can ONLY happen in zero gravity. I just knew you’d love to see it.
So, in this extended cut, I’m going to give you a rare glimpse inside this falling laboratory and show you how the experiments they’re doing could be huge if true…
Chapters:
0:00 What happens to your brain in space?
0:32 Why scientists want to fall from the sky
1:10 How do zero gravity planes work?
1:56 Experiment 1
3:58 Experiment 2
5:28 Experiment 3
7:23 Experiment 4
8:50 Experiment 5
10:27 Why these experiments are huge if true
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Why Gravity Is A Lie, Explained in Zero G, our previous episode of Huge If True! https://youtu.be/5zJbE7J3X8I?si=KbOiyJXMAaXzS4hX
- Experiment 1: Blood Sucking Pants: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable-lower-body-negative-pressure/overview/
- Experiment 2: Space Pilates: https://www.nasa.gov/reference/jsc-exercise-countermeasures/
- Experiment 3: Brain Study: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/lab-for-equilibrium-investigations-and-aerospace/space-research/projects/parabolic-flight-campaign-2024-2025/
- Experiment 4: John McFall Astronaut Prep: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/John_McFall
- Experiment 5: Photonic Propulsion: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail
- What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf
- Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP
- A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy
- What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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What I Wish Everyone Knew About Cancer
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"Curing cancer," explained.
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We’re not looking for a “cure for cancer” anymore. Cancer is hundreds of diseases, so we’re really in a multi front fight against all of them. Cancer is a problem for us today in a way it wasn’t for previous generations. But, luckily, we also have more and more ways to fight back.
I started this episode with endless questions: What is cancer? What causes it? How do we treat cancer? What are the symptoms? Why are some cancers easier to treat than others? Why is cancer so hard to cure? Why do so many people die of cancer?
What I found is an incredible, complex, inspiring effort to treat and stop an insidious killer. In this video, we dive deep into how we treat cancer today. But I also found that we may not be helping the greatest number of people we can.
In this episode of Huge If True, I want to make the case that while we have made enormous strides in the fight against cancer we have also largely ignored one of the single best ways to save the most lives.
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Chapters:
00:00 Why do so many people get cancer?
02:06 What is cancer?
03:02 How do we treat cancer?
03:44 What is chemotherapy?
04:42 What is immunotherapy?
06:27 How do we save more lives?
07:47 Does early detection save lives?
09:23 How do we detect cancer?
10:45 What are the downsides of cancer tests?
11:38 Why early cancer detection matter?
12:42 Can we cure cancer?
Sources and additional reading:
- Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer, American Cancer Association https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/general-info/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer.html
- Crunching Numbers: What Cancer Screening Statistics Really Tell Us, National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/screening/research/what-screening-statistics-mean
- Cancer, Our World In Data https://ourworldindata.org/cancer
- A New Deal For Cancer, collected essays (including by Greg Simon) https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/abbe-r-gluck/a-new-deal-for-cancer/9781541700611/
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Emperor-of-All-Maladies/Siddhartha-Mukherjee/9781439170915
- How does cancer spread through the body? TED-Ed https://youtu.be/OcigJn8UJNQ
- Have We Discovered a Cure for Cancer... on Accident? SciShow https://youtu.be/e-V_MDVgISo
- What is cancer? City of Hope https://youtu.be/_N1Sk3aiSCE
- Why Don’t We All Have Cancer? VSauce https://youtu.be/Qja4z1HGDQo
- Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer, Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/1AElONvi9WQ
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained, produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
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Why Gravity Is A Lie, explained in Zero G
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There’s a big problem with gravity…
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Gravity is a lie. I went into zero gravity to explain why…
But it won't be easy because gravity is actually one of the most controversial subjects in all of physics.
This is not some philosophical debate. A huge amount of the tech you use every day depends on our current (limited) understanding of gravity.
If we can understand gravity a little bit better, we can build more things that are huge if true!
So in this video, I joined the European Space Agency on a real zero gravity flight and interviewed theoretical physicists to understand: What really IS gravity? And what are the real life sci-fi ways we might use it in the future?
Chapters:
0:00 The big problem with gravity
0:58 What is a zero gravity flight?
1:40 What is gravity?
2:49 What’s Einstein’s equivalence principle?
3:40 What does zero gravity feel like?
5:52 Why is falling the same as floating?
6:58 How did gravity disappear?
9:28 Why is gravity not a force?
11:35 What is spacetime?
13:16 Why does this matter?
14:58 Why is gravity fake?
15:48 What are the four fundamental forces?
16:50 Quantum mechanics v gravity
17:55 The theory of everything!
18:51 AdS/CFT
20:10 What if we could change gravity?
21:50 Something you might love
You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Professor Janna Levin’s Dispatches from the Universe: https://jannalevin.substack.com/
- Where Did the Universe Come From? And other books from Professor Geraint Lewis: https://www.geraintflewis.com/
- The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity, Professor Juan Maldacena: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200
- The AdS/CFT Correspondence, Veronika Hubeny: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00007
- What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf
- Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP
- A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy
- What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J
- Space-Time: The biggest problem in physics, Quanta: https://youtu.be/RIqVnFtOSr4?si=0cCObYwb3n1vAPOi
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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Quantum Computers, explained with MKBHD
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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 “superposition” or “quantum mechanics” in a confusing tv segment. But you might be wondering… what does a quantum computer actually DO? And how could it actually affect my life?
@mkbhd and I had the same questions. Marques and I both realized quantum computing was this big important technology… that we didn’t really understand. So we decided to go on an adventure to learn the truth about quantum computers. And we're taking you with us, to show you what we learn as we learn it. But more importantly, to show you how these crazy computers might actually impact YOUR life... sooner than you think.
Chapters:
00:00 What is a quantum computer?
02:00 Why is quantum computing important?
04:00 The Quantum Video Game analogy
07:40 What does a quantum computer look like?
09:38 How does a quantum computer work?
12:00 What is a quantum computer good for?
13:21 Will quantum computers break all encryption?
15:22 What's the future of quantum computing?
16:27 Updating the Quantum Video Game analogy
You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun tech explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
You can find me on Instagram here for more personal stories: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- For more from the IBM team, I love the Qiskit YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@qiskit
- Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Michael G. Raymer https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35498912
- Totally Random, Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub (a comic about quantum mechanics!) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36642373
- How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now by Veritasium https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs
- Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology by Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/JhHMJCUmq28
- Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics by Quanta Magazine https://youtu.be/jHoEjvuPoB8
- The Map of Quantum Computing by Domain of Science https://youtu.be/-UlxHPIEVqA
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
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Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM and 35mm prime
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX
Music: Musicbed
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Editing Your DNA, with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna
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Human DNA editing is finally here.
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There is a microscopic technology that now gives us the power to edit our own genes while we’re alive. To cure certain diseases, possibly prevent others, or boost what our bodies can do… or maybe, one day give our kids abilities no one has ever had before… effectively putting evolution into our hands.
This is not some sci-fi future! We’re already using this technology in real medical treatments in plants to grow new crops and in animals to create new species!
Just yesterday, news broke that a baby’s life was saved using personalized gene editing that fixed one tiny error in its DNA. This is truly “huge if true.”
Deciding how we use this new superpower may be the biggest challenge we have ever faced - and the biggest opportunity to reduce human suffering.
This tool is called CRISPR. Dr. Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for discovering it.
So, in this third episode of Huge Conversations, Dr. Doudna and I use specific examples to help you see how gene editing directly affects your life right now - and help you decide for yourself: How should we use it? When is it wrong - and when is it wrong NOT to?
If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you.
This interview was recorded on March 20th, 2025.
Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations: https://youtu.be/JbKzSDfDdns?si=0PLbyG-RkFGqi9jQ
Chapters:
0:00 Human DNA editing is here
1:20 What’s the goal here?
2:56 What is CRISPR?
4:34 How does gene editing work?
6:18 How should humans edit our genes?
7:22 You v. your kids
9:37 The first CRISPR gene therapy
12:37 What can CRISPR cure?
13:48 Challenges with delivery
16:34 Curing Huntington’s
18:34 The first CRISPR-edited babies
22:27 When should we use CRISPR?
26:03 Can I edit my DNA to prevent disease?
29:18 Can I enhance myself?
31:11 When shouldn’t we use CRISPR?
34:14 When don’t you need DNA edits?
36:32 Superpowers??
38:17 How should we edit plants and animals?
42:57 The funniest CRISPR gene edit is really useful
45:37 Editing our own microbiome
48:28 The bigger picture
50:16 What Dr. Doudna is excited about now
You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Additional reading and watching:
- Dr. Doudna's book, A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-crack-in-creation-jennifer-a-doudnasamuel-h-sternberg?variant=40828378152994
- Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/health/gene-editing-personalized-rare-disorders.html
- CRISPR Explained, Mayo Clinic https://youtu.be/UKbrwPL3wXE?si=FIGuEQdycVfGQR-k
- Biologist Explains CRISPR, WIRED https://youtu.be/sweN8d4_MUg?si=-mlG8CXx1OjTdhmr
- How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA, Jennifer Doudna, TED: https://youtu.be/TdBAHexVYzc?si=6C96AyPktzrG0d9q
- CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think, Jennifer Doudna, TED: https://youtu.be/HANo__Z8K6s?si=ogZMk9JZgoegntjs
Bio:
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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answerLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste
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What if we could actually USE nuclear waste?
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Nuclear waste is scary. Maybe you’ve seen it as glowing green goop in The Simpsons, or as a radioactive threat on the news. Either way, you likely know it has been a major block to the use and improvement of nuclear power. Over the last few decades, experts, politicians and the public have had heated debates over what to do with this radioactive material created by nuclear power plants.
But what if there were a way to not just store nuclear waste, but actually USE it?
This video is about the effort to make electricity out of nuclear waste. Really. It turns out, we developed the tools to do this decades ago. This story is about a technology we left behind and the people who want to bring it back.
For this video, I had the privilege of visiting one of the largest and oldest research centers in the US, the Argonne National Laboratory. I’m incredibly grateful to the researchers and staff I met there, and for their time in showing me their work. I also had the opportunity to speak with representatives from Oklo, a company working on new forms of nuclear power, including recycling nuclear waste as fuel. One of the best parts of making Huge If True is meeting and learning from people pushing what we can do in the hopes of improving the world for everyone else.
Chapters:
00:00 Nuclear waste isn’t what I thought
02:21 How I got obsessed
03:27 How much energy is in nuclear waste?
06:20 How do you get electricity?
06:50 What is uranium?
07:28 How does a nuclear reaction work?
08:05 Why is nuclear waste dangerous?
08:40 What do we do with nuclear waste?
09:35 How do you make electricity from nuclear waste?
11:21 Why doesn’t the US reuse nuclear fuel?
12:20 Is recycling waste feasible?
13:41 What is Huge If True?
Corrections:
07:09 The number refers to the total number of nucleons (either a proton or a neutron) in the atom, not the neutrons alone. A U-235 atom contains 92 protons and 143 neutrons (an atomic mass of 235). The U-238 atom also has 92 protons but has 146 neutrons (an atomic mass of 238). I should have said these *differ* by the number of neutrons in the atom. Thanks to the commenters who pointed this out!
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Johnny’s video on nuclear power: https://youtu.be/QzTgZ6kOEM8
- My previous video for Vox on nuclear reactors shutting down: https://youtu.be/KC7YD98HixM
- “The Nuclear Waste Problem” by Wendover Productions: https://youtu.be/uU3kLBo_ruo
- “Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?” by Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/aDUvCLAp0uU
- “What Happens to Nuclear Waste?” by The Infographics Show: https://youtu.be/imsRLscqTW0
- “Nuclear Waste Is Manageable. We Just Have To Do It.” by Joe Scott https://youtu.be/96et8ZGsxJY
- “Finland Might Have Solved Nuclear Power’s BiggestLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes (Interview with Brian Cox)
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This extended cut is a deep dive into cutting edge research about black holes. It’s an interview with famous physicist Dr. Brian Cox. We start with “what if you fell into a black hole?” and end on the cutting edge research that had me questioning my whole reality.
I interviewed Dr. Cox originally for a shorter Huge If True episode all about what would happen if you fell into a black hole.
Watch our Huge If True episode about “What If You Fell Into A Black Hole?” here: https://youtu.be/BKIkTKqWMfg?si=bTde4QxUeN6bN1Io
But there was SO much weird and mind bending stuff about the cutting edge of black holes that didn't fit into that shorter episode, and we knew you'd want to hear it. So we decided we had to release the full conversation. It's just too cool and I think you'll love it.
Now, strap in, because the cutting edge of black holes is absolutely WILD.
As always, if you want more optimistic science and tech stories, subscribe to support Huge If True.
Chapters
00:00 What really is a black hole?
04:02 Warping space and time
8:08 Whats inside a black hole?
10:04 Photo of Sagittarius A*
13:03 How big are black holes?
15:19 How small are black holes?
19:37 Passing through the event horizon
23:45 Two perspectives
25:00 Spaghettification
29:22 You see this on Earth
31:08 Can we get out? Maybe!
34:04 The central question
38:08 What bothered everybody
42:07 Information encoded in pixels?
46:22 Black hole complementarity
51:30 Holographic principle
55:00 It’s hard for us
56:17 The universe as a network of qubits
57:08 Why black holes teach us so much
1:00:15 The firewall paradox
1:05:59 Are we living on the outside of a black hole?
1:07:55 Impacts on quantum computers
1:10:05 Why study black holes?
You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- “What If You Fell Into A Black Hole?” Huge If True: https://youtu.be/BKIkTKqWMfg?si=bTde4QxUeN6bN1Io
- Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/e-P5IFTqB98?si=wFZijDyvIk-B2rG-
- How Gravity Actually Works, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=ZsvnUR4NwiAPZgvi
- Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe, Big Think: https://youtu.be/pGsbEd6w7PI?si=HysqaVGkVHyoyNLC
- Travel Inside A Black Hole, VSauce: https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY?si=9aA96AYZta4pZxsx
- Brian Cox, Joe Rogan Interview: https://youtu.be/Rc7OHXJtWco?si=eaQjo7kxx4OiFoux
- Do black holes explode? Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00768-4
- The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
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Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
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The Truth About Psychedelics
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Should psychedelics be legal?
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You might be hearing about states and countries legalizing psychedelics. In 2020, Oregon became the first US state to decriminalize psilocybin and legalize it for therapeutic use. In 2022, Colorado followed suit. Researchers have recently been touting the benefits of psychedelics for health conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, cancer-related distress, and the list goes on. However - like cannabis - psilocybin is still illegal under US federal law.
Given that ongoing fight, you might have questions. I know I do. Are psychedelics the next weed? Is that a good thing? Are psychedelics dangerous? Do they actually have scientific benefits? How do psychedelics work? In this episode of Huge If True, we find out.
Thank you to Dr. Ben Rein, neuroscience researcher and consultant on this episode. If you enjoy Huge If True, you’ll love Dr. Rein’s videos on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.brein?lang=en
Chapters:
00:00 The big debate about psychedelics
02:16 What are psychedelics?
03:35 What do psychedelics do?
05:47 The history of psychedelics
06:46 The War on Drugs
09:09 New research on psychedelics
10:05 How do psychedelics work?
11:09 Psychedelics for PTSD and depression
12:21 Are psychedelics legal?
14:10 Why psychedelics are huge if true
15:15 What is Huge If True?
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Psychedelic Legalization and Decriminalization Tracker: https://psychedelicalpha.com/data/psychedelic-laws
- The Accidental Discovery of LSD, The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-accidental-discovery-of-lsd/379564/
- Psilocybin effects in patients with life-threatening cancer, Journal of Psychopharmacology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367557/
- MDMA effects on PTSD, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
- Psilocybin fMRI-measured brain mechanisms, Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7
- The real risks of psychedelics, explained by an expert | Dr. Matthew Johnson: https://youtu.be/ISM9OeWs7yw
- The “heroic dose” of psychedelics, according to Johns Hopkins | Dr. Matthew Johnson https://youtu.be/HGqFxjQI3is
- How psychedelics work, explained in under 6 minutes | Matthew Johnson https://youtu.be/yS9FBB19Ws0
- Ayahuasca, by VSauce https://youtu.be/U3lWVLuc6CE
- Expert Answers Psychedelics Questions From Twitter (ft. Michael Pollan) | Tech Support | WIRED https://youtu.be/IBLnSl8Q1NQ
- The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess, Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/psychedelic-therapy-mess/
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM and 35mm prime
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX
Music: Musicbed and Tom Fox
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What If I Fell Into A Black Hole?
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What’s really happening inside a black hole?
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Imagine that you’re flying through space, when suddenly you start to get dragged toward a dark abyss. Reality as you know it starts to change. Time begins to warp. And you start to feel this strange sort of sensation of being stretched and squashed…
You’re falling into a black hole, one of the most astonishing places in our universe. Some are so big they can fit over 60 of our solar systems across them, with masses up to 100 billion times our Sun. And once you fall into one past a certain point, nothing can escape.
... Or can it?
I wanted to know the latest cutting edge research about black holes, so I called up my favorite physicist, Dr. Brian Cox to answer the question: If you fell into a black hole, what would actually happen to you? What would it feel like? And what does our newest science tell us is really happening inside a black hole?
Chapters:
0:00 What if you fall into a black hole?
1:20 What is a black hole, really?
2:20 How do we find black holes?
3:17 What do black holes look like?
4:46 How big are black holes?
6:28 What would it feel like to fall into a black hole?
7:40 What would you see from far away?
9:18 What happens at the event horizon?
10:58 What is spaghettification?
11:58 What is the singularity?
13:00 Can you ever get out of a black hole?
14:00 Wait, that’s weird…
15:00 The black hole information paradox
16:09 The cutting edge of black holes
17:42 Why are black holes so important?
Professor Brian Cox is performing a run of live shows across the US! Check out briancoxlive.co.uk for more information. I can't wait.
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/e-P5IFTqB98?si=wFZijDyvIk-B2rG-
- How Gravity Actually Works, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=ZsvnUR4NwiAPZgvi
- Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe, Big Think: https://youtu.be/pGsbEd6w7PI?si=HysqaVGkVHyoyNLC
- Travel Inside A Black Hole, VSauce: https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY?si=9aA96AYZta4pZxsx
- Brian Cox, Joe Rogan Interview: https://youtu.be/Rc7OHXJtWco?si=eaQjo7kxx4OiFoux
- Do black holes explode? Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00768-4
- The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End, Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-most-famous-paradox-in-physics-nears-its-end-20201029/
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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What do you give a black hole?
Some space.
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How Do Sci-Fi Movies Look So Real? (feat. MKBHD)
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I’ve been obsessed with sci-fi movies since I was a kid. I love being transported to another world. But lately, I’ve been wondering: How do those worlds look so… REAL? The tech behind movies has exploded in complexity and realism, changing how stories come to life on screen.
Luckily, at the same time, those tools are becoming more and more available to more people telling stories. It’s not just blockbusters like Avatar 2 or Avengers or Dune. It’s also smaller budget films like Everything Everywhere All at Once or even… YouTube creators?
In this video, Marques Brownlee and I test out 3 movie-making tools that are changing how movies, shows, and maybe even YouTube videos (??) get made. We’re at ZeroSpace Studios in New York to show you how each of these crazy technologies work - and how you might be able to use them. Along the way, we hit big questions like: What is the future of video? Can actors stop aging? Can WE? Do you care if an actor has a digital double? Should the audience choose where the camera goes? Most of all, what we discover is a new world of video creation, hopefully open to more and more people’s creativity.
Chapters:
00:00 How do movies look so real?
1:18 The future of green screen?
3:31 The problem with green screen
4:33 How was The Mandalorian filmed?
6:11 How to shoot two scenes AT ONCE
8:39 How motion capture works
10:06 Why was Avatar 2 filmed underwater?
11:05 What happens if you can be... anyone?
13:51 What is volumetric video?
15:33 What's the future of video?
Thank you to the entire team who helped make this video possible! They are:
From ZeroSpace:
- Creative Director: Kevin Peter He
- Head of Research: Evan Clark
- Technical Director: Eric Chang
- Producer: Elena Piech
- Mocap Operator: Sammy Sords
- Mocap Asst./ PA: Kimani Reid
- Disguise Asst. / PA: Omar Jones
- 3D Modeler: Maya Lila
- CEO: Jon Kreutzer
- CTO: James Tunick
From 4Wall Entertainment (a joint partnership on the XR/ICVFX Stage):
- VP of Special Projects: Ben Danielowski
- VP of Special Projects: Mathew Leland
- L1: Zach Sager
From Scatter Depthkit (a joint partnership on the volumetric video):
- CEO and Co-Founder of Scatter, creators of Depthkit: James George
- Lead Technical Producer: Cory Allen
From Cause + Christi Immersive XR Design:
- Co-Founder: Austin Caine
- Co-Founder: Christi Fenison
From Scheimpflug:
- Photogrammetry Lead: Joachim Pfefferkorn
You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun tech explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- ZeroSpace Studios: https://www.zerospace.co/
- Scatter Depthkit Volumetric Video: https://www.depthkit.tv/
- Cause + Christi: Immersive XR Design: https://causechristi.com
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How Disney Built A Realistic Lightsaber
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Today I’ve been invited behind the scenes at Walt Disney Imagineering, the place where Disney brings their craziest ideas to life - from STUNT ROBOTS to a real life version of The Force, to adorable little droids!
On this show Huge If True, we explore how tech can improve people’s lives - by living longer, going farther, doing more. But the reason I’ve loved Disney since I was a kid is they use tech to improve lives another way… by making people happy. And that means they end up pushing forward tech in some crazy, unexpected ways.
So let me take you inside the magic, to show you the cutting edge tech they’re building… how it works… and what happens when we put it to the test!
Chapters:
0:00 What is Disney building next?
1:11 What does Walt Disney Imagineering do?
1:52 What are Disney’s new droids really like?
2:47 How do Disney’s new droids work?
5:08 What’s the world’s most realistic lightsaber?
6:17 How do Disney’s lightsabers work?
8:05 How do you make The Force real?
9:53 How does Disney’s holotile work?
11:59 What will Disney use holotile for?
12:48 How does Disney use robot stunt doubles?
13:57 Special guests!!
15:54 Why is Disney tech huge if true?
16:15 :)
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- I Tried A Disney Secret Project! Marques Brownlee https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY?si=Ovb2gpeoxbzlTTWN
- Inside Disney’s ‘Area 51,’ Where Lightsabers and Other Tech Are Invented, WSJ https://youtu.be/9miiL-nb1bY?si=i180AST_ok4sNM_P
- Pick, Carry, Place, Repeat | Inside the Lab with Atlas, Boston Dynamics https://youtu.be/v8UaiRgqvlc?si=Z3LU0pkhdCrUps6i
- Duke Weaselton pushes his own way to the top, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/VFNruidzlZw?si=-2U1ft0TA7x8RrSa
- A New Approach to Disney’s Robotic Character Pipeline, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/-cfIm06tcfA?si=1LXHwcc5EvIMpvN_
- Droids in Training: Imagineers Conduct Playtest at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/qNfRgZMWyCI?si=K6EujeGkKEcl5-pP
- How Disney Designed a Robotic Spider-Man, WIRED https://youtu.be/oyXl3IhonRM?si=93IQjc9mJvMK8BS5
- Disney Imagineers Develop Cutting-edge, Free-roaming Robotic Actor, Walt Disney Imagineering https://youtu.be/EdDJ77uDwWQ?si=A_I7abl3eVCdI3TK
- Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles, TechCrunch https://youtu.be/ENa98h7M7qY?si=1M7Z5C3XDWQiELM5
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
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Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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Why’s it so hard to tell a good Star Wars joke? They all feel forced.
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What We Get Wrong About AI (feat. former Google CEO)
AI is here. Now what?Subscribe to support optimistic tech journalism!Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning. There are lots of names thrown around - OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALLE-2 …
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AI is here. Now what?
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Everyone’s talking about artificial intelligence and machine learning. There are lots of names thrown around - OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALLE-2, Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMa 2, Midjourney, AlphaFold…
Right now, we’re in this weird moment where lots of smart people agree we’re on the cusp of a truly world-changing technology. But some seem to be saying it's going to lead to human extinction while others are saying it’s “more profound than fire.”
But it all feels so VAGUE.
I want to know: How specifically would AI kill me? Or totally transform my life for the better? In this video, that’s what I’m going to try to learn. We dive into what the most extreme bad and good AI futures actually look like, so that you and I can get ready. And more importantly, so we can make sure that we get our real future RIGHT.
Chapters:
00:00 Why is AI so confusing?
1:13 What is AI?
2:37 Why is everyone talking about AI now?
5:12 Why is AI dangerous?
6:22 How would AI kill me?
8:08 Should we pause AI?
9:12 Why do we WANT AI?
10:30 What has AI already done?
11:27 Why is AI so hard to talk about?
You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun tech explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
You can find me on Instagram here for more personal stories: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Statement on AI Risk: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
- AI and compute, by OpenAI: https://openai.com/research/ai-and-compute
- Mythbusters Demo: CPU v. GPU https://youtu.be/-P28LKWTzrI
- 2022 Expert Survey on Progress in AI https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/
- Introduction to protein folding for physicists https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36046451.pdf
- AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe, By DeepMind https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe
- But what is a neural network? By 3Blue1Brown https://youtu.be/aircAruvnKk
- How Far is Too Far? The Age of AI https://youtu.be/UwsrzCVZAb8
- Artificial Intelligence, by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver https://youtu.be/Sqa8Zo2XWc4
- The AI revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence, by 60 Minutes https://youtu.be/880TBXMuzmk
- How smart is today’s artificial intelligence? By Joss Fong (2017) https://youtu.be/IJKjMIU55pE
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM and 35mm prime
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX
Music: Musicbed
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This time, I asked GPT4 for an AI related joke. They were mostly TERRIBLE. Like:
"Why don't AIs play hide and seek?"
"They always find you in 0.001 seconds!"
Finally, it gave me:
"Why did the AI go to the gym?"
"It wanted to work on its 'training set'!"
… Good enough.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's Vision for the Future
What NVIDIA is trying to build next…Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories from our show Huge If True.You're probably hearing a lot about AI, DeepSeek, NVIDIA and more right now. If you want the …
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You're probably hearing a lot about AI, DeepSeek, NVIDIA and more right now. If you want the big picture (and to start from the beginning), watch this Huge Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world's most valuable companies. That's because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology.
A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about - in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research - relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company.
During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger…
We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it.
Welcome to the second episode of our new series, Huge Conversations…
If you want to know what the most important people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you.
This interview was recorded at CES in Las Vegas on January 7th, 2025.
Watch our first episode of Huge Conversations with Mark Zuckerberg here: https://youtu.be/oX7OduG1YmI?si=mMTesn2gvBeRJmos
Watch our trailer to understand more about the mission of Huge Conversations: https://youtu.be/JbKzSDfDdns?si=0PLbyG-RkFGqi9jQ
Chapters:
0:00 What is Jensen Huang trying to build?
1:40 The goal of this Huge Conversation
3:40 How did we get here?
4:25 What is a GPU?
5:45 Why video games first?
7:59 What is CUDA?
11:04 Why was AlexNet such a big deal?
15:40 Why are we hearing about AI so much now?
19:33 What are NVIDIA’s core beliefs?
21:34 Why does this moment feel so different?
24:08 What’s the future of robots?
30:15 What is Jensen’s 10-year vision?
32:00 What are the biggest concerns?
35:14 What are the biggest limitations?
38:05 How does NVIDIA make big bets on specific chips (transformers)?
42:33 How are chips made?
44:19 What’s Jensen’s next bet?
47:20 How should people prepare for this future?
50:12 How does this affect people’s jobs?
52:37 GeForce RTX 50 Series and NVIDIA DGX
55:50 What’s Jensen’s advice for the future?
59:07 How does Jensen want to be remembered?
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Bio:
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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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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Because it can’t C!
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Why More Sports Need Robot Referees
Are AI referees ruining sports? Or making them better?Subscribe to if you appreciate optimistic tech journalism.If you’re watching the 2023 US Open, you’re seeing automated referee calls. After years of …
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If you’re watching the 2023 US Open, you’re seeing automated referee calls. After years of controversy about human accuracy, tennis has used a system called Hawkeye to not only check human calls… but now to replace human referees. And this robot ref revolution isn’t just happening in tennis. It’s taking over the sports world. Soccer, basketball, baseball, they are all using machines to improve the calls being made on the field. The World Cup in particular has invested in these tools, from VAR (video assistant referee) to semi-automated offside and goal-line technology.
The stakes are high. The difference between a right or wrong call can be a championship, or millions of dollars in prizes, endorsements, ticket sales. For the most part, fans like tech that makes calls more objective. HOWEVER… there is a big chunk of sports fans who would strongly disagree, who think that robot refs are ruining the game.
Thing is, this tech isn’t going back in the bottle! Stadiums are now being decked out with dozens of cameras that can track balls, people, and even use AI to make calls so accurate that one day human refs might be a thing of the past…
Chapters:
00:00 How tennis started a robot ref takeover
00:50 Soccer, basketball, and baseball automating refs
01:53 High tech World Cup balls
02:17 Semi-automated offsides technology
02:58 Video assistant referee (VAR)
04:25 Why some fans HATE robot referees
05:17 Do these tools remove human nuance?
06:27 Why some fans LOVE robot referees
07:02 How Hawkeye works in tennis
07:40 NBA and MLB announcements
08:14 Why these tools are huge if true
I talked about this episode with @mkbhd on the @Waveform podcast here: https://youtu.be/fmIvzU115y0?si=4FbSeNZFU4sAOBER
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Semi-automated offside technology, FIFA: https://www.fifa.com/technical/football-technology/football-technologies-and-innovations-at-the-fifa-world-cup-2022/semi-automated-offside-technology
- Video assistant referee, FIFA: https://www.fifa.com/technical/football-technology/football-technologies-and-innovations-at-the-fifa-world-cup-2022/video-assistant-referee-var
- The TRUTH behind Hawk Eye Accuracy, by Cult Tennis: https://youtu.be/ot3GGJ3tWbw?si=0XJTbjkEFODD-aZV
- How the World Cup’s AI instant replay works, by Vox: https://youtu.be/C164kYMGV1A?si=ataWZyJ2jsWYf4Ql
- Breaking down Goal-Line Technology, by FIFA: https://youtu.be/m17ERc-kQhQ?si=R80YH_7U81n8I_SX
- Automated Line Calls Will Replace Human Judges at U.S. Open, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/sports/tennis/us-open-hawkeye-line-judges.html
- At the U.S. Open, line judges are out. Automated calls are in., NPR: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1121801484/us-open-tennis-human-line-judges-replaced
- Hawk-Eye Innovations and MLB Introduce Next-Gen Baseball Tracking and Analytics Platform: https://pro.sony/ue_US/Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dinosaurs Were Weirder Than We Thought
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Dinosaurs were not like I thought...
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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 cutting edge of dinosaur discovery. I’ll give you rare access into a warehouse full of dinosaur bones, try to find my own fossil, and show you something new these scientists just discovered…
Chapters:
00:00 What were dinosaurs really like?
01:08 Why is today a big deal for dinosaur discovery?
03:31 How big were dinosaurs, really?
05:49 When did dinosaurs actually live?
08:20 How many dinosaurs have we found?
09:26 What was the T-Rex like?
10:39 Did I find a bone??
11:55 What IS a dinosaur?
14:31 What did dinosaur skin feel like?
15:06 What color were dinosaurs?
15:51 Can you guess this modern animal?
16:54 How were dinosaur fossils formed?
17:34 Why did dinosaurs go extinct?*
19:14 Why do we study dinosaurs?
Thank you to the team at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum and the Pipestone Creek Bonebed for making my dreams of hunting for dinosaur fossils come true!
Correction:
17:40 Some of the dinosaurs animated here went extinct before this mass extinction event. Thank you to the thoughtful commenter who pointed this out! We sincerely appreciate it.
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- How do dinosaur fossils form? Natural History Museum: https://youtu.be/87E8bQrX4Wg?si=O-aY_J-oLaENIRhb
- Why are birds the only surviving dinosaurs? Natural History Museum: https://youtu.be/9GVvtKK5sFw?si=1sMXLcp_XbbKm7Mq
- What Makes A Dinosaur? Minute Earth: https://youtu.be/HIbG-dUFnf4?si=JLnfG-oanRrYcq_9
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/dFCbJmgeHmA?si=fHEcj0C5VQ1qVks1
- Evolution of Dinosaurs in 10 Minutes, What If: https://youtu.be/qWvzBCfFNug?si=JiZigpmXXxb3izkz
- The Biggest Dinosaurs Of All Time, Insider Science: https://youtu.be/VoFX7g0ffAA?si=g44WXEqz6A7K7y8w
- Paleontologist Reviews Dinosaur Movie Scenes, Vanity Fair: https://youtu.be/PJXrCtQAYDs?si=82TDpRtXjX4MfATS
- 25th anniversary of the first known feathered dinosaurs, Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04586-4
- Tyrannosaurus rex couldn’t run says new research, U Manchester: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/tyrannosaurus-rex-couldnt-run-says-new-research/
- A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3192160/
- A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE, Field Museum: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/fresh-science-makeover-sue
- Tracing the evolution of amniote chromosomes: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4031395/
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The Ocean Is Deeper Than You Think. We Need Better Maps.
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Why deep sea maps are SO BAD (and how to fix it)...
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Our maps of the ocean are surprisingly bad! On Google Maps it looks like we know so much… but we know less about the ocean floor than we do the surface of Mars. And that’s a big problem, because we are using the ocean all the time: We’re laying internet cables across it, we fight wars in it, we search it during a crisis - like the imploded OceanGate Titan submersible or the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. 71% of the surface of the Earth is water! And yet we have a surprisingly limited view of what’s below it.
But that’s also understandable. Because cartographically speaking, water sucks. For Mars or Earth’s surface, we can take pictures. But light doesn’t get to the ocean floor, so we need other ways to see it. The good news is, we’re developing that tech right now, and an international group called Seabed 2030 is working to piece together a better map.
There is a terrifying, incredible, alien world on our own planet, and we’re FINALLY using technology to see it more clearly.
In this episode of Huge If True, I dive deep - with help from my friend and fellow video journalist @johnnyharris - to show you how we’re mapping the ocean, the surprising things we’ve discovered in the depths, and why this new technology could be… huge if true :)
Chapters:
00:00 How bad are our ocean maps?
01:40 How deep is the ocean?
03:05 What is the deepest part of the ocean?
04:04 The craziest method to map the ocean
06:20 How does sonar work?
07:31 What did the first ocean maps look like?
09:30 How do we map the ocean now?
10:30 What is Seabed 2030?
11:40 How do we use underwater robots?
12:27 Concerns with mapping the deep ocean
13:11 Why deep ocean mapping is huge if true
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- 24-hour a day live streaming from the deep sea: www.NautilusLive.org
- Livestream of ocean research (my favorite): https://www.youtube.com/@EVNautilus
- To see recent seafloor visualizations (NOAA): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/ocean-exploration-data-atlas/
- To learn more about the high-stakes race to map the Earth's oceans: The Deepest Map, by Laura Trethewey https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-deepest-map-laura-trethewey
- To see how amazing our Mars maps are (Murray Lab): https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCTXmosaic.html
- The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think, RealLifeLore: https://youtu.be/GE-lAftuQgc?si=yjGHgbaDZYILXpT0
- What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea, Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/PaErPyEnDvk?si=AcXwb3F-ERJXGFRI
- The Unspeakable Horrors of the Deep Sea, Casual Geographic: https://youtu.be/MCf4zwOfRas?si=08gYwFdm3OwWoP4D
- Why no aquarium has a great white shark, Vox: https://youtu.be/QMbHLF_zwjs?si=gGrgYBNQqK9L-Twd
- This Incredible Animation Shows How Deep The Ocean Really Is, Insider: https://youtu.be/UwVNkfCov1k?si=L1Rj4V4HIFUP8gjy
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What If You Just Keep Digging?
What's really down in the deep Earth?Subscribe to support optimistic science and tech journalism!Have you ever thought, “what if I just dug a really really deep hole?”Well, the USSR actually did. The hole they …
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What's really down in the deep Earth?
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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 digging it in the 1970s as part of a space race, but down. The United States only got to 600 ft before pulling funding. But the USSR kept going for 20 years. They made it about a third of the way through the Earth’s crust and then STOPPED.
But what if… you just… kept... digging?
If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth, what would you find? What would happen to you? And what does our newest tech tell us is REALLY down below your feet?
In this video, we’re going on a journey to the center of the Earth…
Chapters:
0:00 What if you dug a hole to Earth’s core?
1:05 What happens when I start digging?
1:36 What are the deepest made-made things?
2:25 What is the deepest hole humans ever dug?
3:03 What happens in the mantle?
3:45 Why is the Earth hot?
4:38 What did we used to think was inside the Earth?
5:06 How do we know what’s inside the Earth??
5:59 What’s inside the core?
6:26 Um, the magnetic field switches direction??
7:13 Why is the Earth in layers?
8:53 What’s at the center of the Earth?
9:46 Earth’s core spins at its own rate??
10:52 What don’t we know?
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Corrections:
1:43 The Mponeng Gold Mine is in South Africa, not China.
We always strive to get every detail right but we do sometimes make mistakes. We care more about getting it right than being right, and we'll always issue corrections. Thank you for your help making Huge If True great!
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- What If You Dig A Hole Through The Earth (our previous Short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1WXL1IfivVo
- What If You Just Keep Digging (our previous Short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yMNmhpQ7mOs
- How Deep Humans Have Dug, Insider Tech: https://youtu.be/tzhWVzyo4kI?si=KveNdkqDB4H_GvT_
- What Would A Journey To Earth’s Core Be Like? Bright Side: https://youtu.be/3FoSAHk7DMA?si=E0yceK9HFFHbhzEN
- What’s The Deepest Hole We Can Possibly Dig? RealLifeLore: https://youtu.be/E39GIysMevQ?si=Mt8kp_CPbbMXng0f
- Why Did the Russians Seal Up the Deepest Hole in the World? How Stuff Works: https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/kola-superdeep-borehole.htm
- Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow, WIRED: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/fantastically-wrong-hollow-earth/
- How Does Earth’s Core Generate a Magnetic Field? USGS: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-does-earths-core-generate-a-magnetic-field
- Reversing the Geomagnetic Field, NASA: https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/reversing-the-geomagnetic-field/
- Why Is It Hot Underground? Minute Earth: https://youtu.be/mOSpRzW2i_4?si=05MWOpajl3plH2Re
- Earth’s inner core seems to be slowing its spin, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/01/23/earth-core-slowing/
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AI Music, Explained with Spotify CEO
When should artists get paid in a world with AI music?Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories!Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made - and how musicians get paid. AI is letting …
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When should artists get paid in a world with AI music?
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Artificial intelligence is changing how music gets made - and how musicians get paid. AI is letting people clone artists’ voices, create completely new songs as fake collaborations, generate lyrics in seconds, even produce full tracks just by typing in a few words. It’s all causing some to say AI will be “the death of music.”
Technology causes turning points in history. And I think we’re in one right now for music. The stakes are high: If we get this wrong, we could jeopardize how human musicians make money and art. But if we get it right, we have an opportunity to leap ahead in how we as humans get to express ourselves.
To really understand what’s happening with AI music, you need to understand how the music industry ALREADY works - and how it could be changing. In this video, I took a deep dive into that topic with the help of two people right in the thick of it: The artist Grimes and CEO of Spotify Daniel Ek.
Chapters:
00:00 What is happening with AI in music?
02:05 Why would we want AI music?
04:03 How are musicians using AI?
06:17 When should musicians get paid?
07:15 What is copying versus inspiration?
08:26 How does copyright work in music?
10:06 Should artists get paid for AI training on their music?
11:55 What happens when AI generates its own songs?
12:54 How could AI music be "huge if true"?
You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun tech explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
Elf Tech, by Grimes: https://elf.tech/connect
Who Sampled, my favorite site to see sampled tracks: https://www.whosampled.com
Frank singing Lil jon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zoQeH2wQFM
Johnny Cash Barbie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKGxySvaII
Linkin Park Pokemon: https://youtu.be/CuCUdQ3xrEk?si=wFaim8O86IUamItB
An A.I. Hit of Fake ‘Drake’ and ‘The Weeknd’ Rattles the Music World, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/arts/music/ai-drake-the-weeknd-fake.html
The Music Industry Has an AI Problem, Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/02/ai-drake-heart-on-my-sleeve-and-cultural-appropriation/c236dbfc-e8f1-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html
Spotify will not ban AI-made music, BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66882414
Grimes Launches AI Software That Allows Anyone To Insert Her Voice Into Music, Hypebeast: https://hypebeast.com/2023/5/grimes-ai-software-elf-tech-voice-music
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Humanity’s Real Plan to Stop This Asteroid (Feat. Mark Rober)
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 http://cometeer.com/cleo Imagine, it’s 2034, and a rock the size …
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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 http://cometeer.com/cleo
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 fictional asteroid headed for Earth – with help from my friend and former NASA engineer Mark Rober and rare access into a remote facility where they discover NEW asteroids – to show you all the real science and tech we would use to defend our planet if an asteroid is about to hit Earth!
[SPOILER] Our rock was published in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular (MPEC) here! MPEC 2025-K125 : 2025 KS6
Chapters:
00:00 Did an asteroid hit Earth?
01:00 What happens if an asteroid is headed towards Earth?
01:52 Is that Mark Rober?
03:26 How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
04:30 What happens when an asteroid hits Earth?
07:30 How are asteroids discovered?
10:39 Will an asteroid hit Earth?
13:15 Can we stop an asteroid?
15:27 What if we nuke an asteroid?
18:03 Did we discover an asteroid?
19:41 Did we stop the asteroid from hitting Earth?
20:42 Why is this HUGE* If True?
21:34 Can we escape Alcatraz?
21:42 :)
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, HUGE* If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Veritasium, "These are the asteroids to worry about": https://youtu.be/4Wrc4fHSCpw?si=WhtX_q0TRzimx17b
- NASA “Planetary Defenders (NASA + Documentary)”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOb2DQWvDvc&t=665s
- NASA's Near-Earth Object Observation Programs (Including Catalina Sky Survey): https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-defense-neoo/
- JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS): https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/
- The Minor Planet Center: https://minorplanetcenter.net/
- International Asteroid Warning Network: https://iawn.net/
- Space Mission Planning Advisory Group: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/smpag#:~:text=It%20was%20formally%20endorsed%20by%20the%20Committee,page%20is%20the%20technical%20reference%20for%20SMPAG.
- DART Mission: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php
- ESA, Asteroid Danger Explained: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_danger_explained
- Definitions and Assumptions - NEO: https://neo.ssa.esa.int/definitions-assumptions
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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I tell different stories in different places:
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Credits: (After the trailer, these will be at the end of each episode.)
Produced and edited by: Cleo Abram
Animated by: Whitney Theis
Bio:
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 the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. She now makes her own independent show, Huge If True. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?
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The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built
This machine found something scientists thought was impossible…If you want to talk to Mico, go to this link: https://bit.ly/CleoAbram-CopilotIn the middle of the desert, miles from any city, are two HUGE …
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This machine found something scientists thought was impossible…
If you want to talk to Mico, go to this link: https://bit.ly/CleoAbram-Copilot
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 there’s a big metal pipe. And at the end of each pipe, scientists place some of the smoooooothest mirrors ever made. And then they fire a powerful laser that gets split down each tube, bouncing it back and forth… building up more and more power… until… they bring those beams back together… to discover something that just 100 years ago scientists thought was impossible to find!
Finding it took hundreds of scientists and over a billion dollars. But what did we find?? And what’s the cutting edge we’re finding NOW that makes those scientists want to build… AN EVEN BIGGER ONE?
Let me show you…
Chapters
00:00 What's the most precise experiment humans have built?
01:41 How do we know what’s out in the universe?
02:33 What if two stars collide?
03:41 What are gravitational waves?
6:34 What's inside the concrete tubes in the desert?
5:50 How did they build the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory?
07:42 How does the laser experiment work?
09:20 What's the LIGO dance?
11:14 What are the most reflective mirrors in the world?
14:02 What happened when they turned on the laser machine?
15:17 Did we detect gravitational waves?
16:16 Can we manipulate gravity?
17:44 :)
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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, HUGE* If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- LIGO: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/learn-more
- Paper on First Gravitational Wave Detection: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03837
- Einstein's Theory of Gravitation: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/research/science-field/einsteins-theory-gravitation
- Advancements to LIGO: Quantum Squeezing: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20231023
- Advanced LIGO Documentary “LIGO”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX4vCNi544w
- Caltech, “LIGO: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves”: https://youtu.be/wrqbfT8qcBc?si=39S3-hcXpU6Dwiyg
- Physics Girl, “I Visited the First Gravitational Wave Detector! LIGO | STELLAR”: https://youtu.be/jtp71NT0GNg?si=6BUilmCISXlwN8qr
- Veritasium, “The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves”: https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10?si=DFZYSAIyW90oIoNe
- Caltech “How Squeezing Light Reduces Uncertainty in LIGO's Measurements”: https://youtu.be/q5lnamXhnfI?si=QrbgPVHwkYs1CEip
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/
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What did Gravity say to Light?
Nothing, it just waved!
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Fracking for Clean Energy (wait, what?)
... Not the story I was expecting.Subscribe to see the next episode: https://www.youtube.com/cleoabram?sub_confirmation=1 Fracking made it possible to get and burn much, much more oil and natural gas. To do it …
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... Not the story I was expecting.
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Fracking made it possible to get and burn much, much more oil and natural gas. To do it, companies drill into rock deep beneath the Earth's surface and pump in fluid at high enough pressure to crack that rock open, allowing the trapped oil and gas to escape into their pipes. But the fossil fuels they released have directly contributed to climate change, and we're all now paying the price.
But here's the hopeful twist: It turns out that this technology - the same one perfected to squeeze every drop of dirty fossil fuels out of the earth - might be the key to unlocking an even bigger source of energy. One that's actually... clean.
This video explains how fracking is now being used in geothermal to get more clean energy out of the ground, in the hope of moving away from fossil fuels. Along the way, we'll meet Professor Mukul Sharma, aka the "Frack King," and longtime energy reporter David Roberts. Oh, and my parents (thanks, Mom and Dad!).
Chapters:
00:00 What is fracking for oil and gas?
01:15 Does fracking pollute water?
03:20 Does fracking cause earthquakes?
04:43 What is geothermal energy?
06:54 What is enhanced geothermal?
07:54 How much energy comes from geothermal?
09:05 Is enhanced geothermal safe?
10:03 Why do we need fracking for geothermal?
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Bio:
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 the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. She now makes her own independent show, Huge If True. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?
Sources and additional reading:
- “Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States,” US Environmental Protection Agency: https://www.epa.gov/hfstudy
- “Studies link earthquakes to fracking in the Central and Eastern US,” Seismological Society of America: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190426110601.htm
- “Millimeter-Wave Technology Demonstration for Geothermal Direct Energy Drilling,” US Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy: https://www.arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/millimeter-wave-technology-demonstration-geothermal-direct-energy-drilling
- “Enhanced Geothermal Energy,” US Department of Energy: https://www.energy.gov/eere/geothermal/enhanced-geothermal-systems-0
- “Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout,” David Roberts, Vox: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/10/21/21515461/renewable-energy-geothermal-egs-ags-supercritical
- “Underground Oil Deposits,” HowStuffWorks: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/underground-oil-deposits.htm
- “Electricity Mix,” Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists
This is the craziest Olympic sport by far. Trust me.This episode is #sponsored by @NBCSports @YouTube #WinterOlympics Every four years, people lose their minds over one Olympic sport. They make fun of it! But …
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This is the craziest Olympic sport by far. Trust me.
This episode is #sponsored by @NBCSports @YouTube #WinterOlympics
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 totally wrong. This is the coolest Olympic sport by far. The sport I’m talking about is… CURLING.
From stones so unique they all have to come from one tiny island, to a tech doping scandal nobody wants to talk about. It’s a game with strategy so complicated it’s called “chess on ice”. And a physics mystery that’s gone unsolved for over a century that could one day help us design robots for space. And that’s just the start…
Trust me, you don’t know enough about Curling…YET. So I’m going to take you onto the ice at the Olympic Trials… to show you what everyone’s missing and why Curling is the Olympic sport you should be watching.
Chapters
00:00 What's the most fascinating sport at the Winter Olympics?
01:40 How do you play curling?
02:57 Why are curling stones so crazy?
04:46 Why is curling chess on ice?
05:48 Why do they sweep in curling?
08:18 What is Broomgate?
10:11 How do curling stones defy physics?
11:58 What is the science of rubbing?
15:16 Why do people make fun of curling?
15:56 :)
You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
On TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cleoabram
Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, HUGE* If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Curling clubs near NYC: https://licurling.org/, https://ardsleycurling.com/
Special thanks to Long Island Curling and Ardsley Curling for all of their support in the prep and research of this episode!
-World Curling: https://worldcurling.org/
-“History of the Game” https://www.scottishcurling.org/curling-history/history-of-the-game/
-“What is Curling?” https://www.stlouiscurlingclub.org/index.php/try-curling/about-curling
- Curling Clips YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CurlingClips
- “Study of curling mechanism by precision kinematic measurements of curling stone’s motion” https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9440934/
- “The slippery science of Olympic curling: we still don’t know how it works” https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/02/the-slippery-science-of-olympic-curling--we-still-dont-know-how-,
- Original study: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000112841493&seq=657
- “Why all Olympic curling stones come from a Scottish island” https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-68699328,
- Kays Scotland https://www.kaysscotland.com/
- “PHOTO ESSAY: Scottish island Ailsa Craig is the granite source for Olympic curling stones” https://apnews.com/photo-essay/olympics-curling-island-ailsa-craig-scotland-photos-90cc3742fe35b63b87755ad126942c42
-“Ailsa Craig” https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/ailsa-craig-91856/
-World Curling “Around the House: Operation Ailsa Craig” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMe-pElwho
-Glossary on curling terms: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/glossary-of-curling,
Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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Metformin, the Big New "Anti-Aging" Drug, Explained
So, uh... does it work?Subscribe to see the next episode!Metformin is an old, cheap drug used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes. Now, it’s back in the news because some people - particularly …
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So, uh... does it work?
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Metformin is an old, cheap drug used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes. Now, it’s back in the news because some people - particularly wealthy people - are using it for possible anti-aging effects. That’s right. One of the most popular ways rich people are trying to live longer isn’t some million dollar cryo-something experiment, but a pill that costs pennies that's already on the market. So, the big question is: Does it work? To find out, I interviewed the lead researcher on the biggest study of metformin for anti-aging, Dr. Nir Barzilai. The answer he gives me? Well, it’s complicated.
Note: I do not take metformin, nor am I advocating anyone else should. Please don't get medical advice from a youtube video! The purpose of this video is to explain the research that exists, explore what it tells us about aging in general, and discuss the effort Dr. Barzilai is leading to learn more.
00:00 What is metformin?
00:53 What is aging?
01:46 Can we slow aging?
02:27 Does metformin work for anti aging?
03:40 How does metformin work?
04:37 What is the TAME Trial?
05:46 Should I take metformin?
07:31 Why slow aging?
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You can find me on TikTok here for short, fun explainers: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram
You can find me on Instagram here for more personal stories: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram
You can find me on Twitter here for thoughts and curated news: https://twitter.com/cleoabram
Bio:
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 the host and a senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, as well as a host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked. She now makes her own independent show, Huge If True. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?
Sources and additional reading:
- TAME Trial FAQ https://www.afar.org/tame-trial
- Dr. Nir Barzilai, Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Faculty Profile https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/484/nir-barzilai/
- “A beginner's guide to longevity research,” Laura Deming https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq
- “Aging and the border between health and disease,” European Respiratory Journal https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/44/5/1332
- “Can people with type 2 diabetes live longer than those without? A comparison of mortality in people initiated with metformin or sulphonylurea monotherapy and matched, non-diabetic control,” Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.12354
- “A Critical Review of the Evidence That Metformin Is a Putative Anti-Aging Drug That Enhances Healthspan and Extends Lifespan,” Frontiers in Endocrinology https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2021.718942/full
- “Metformin, a historical overview,” European Association for the Study of Diabetes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00125-017-4318-z
- “Metformin improves healthspan and lifespan in mice,” Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3192
- “Metformin Retards Aging in C. elegans by Altering Microbial Folate and Methionine Metabolism,” Cell https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(13)00267-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867413002675%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
- “Cancer,” Our World In Data https://ourworldindata.org/cancer
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