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Huge If True Podcast

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

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5:16

The Vomit Comet ft. Emily Calandrelli

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2026/10/04

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

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6:37

World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train

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2026/10/04

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

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5:45

Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

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2026/10/04

Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

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3:54

How Rainbows Form

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2026/10/04

How Rainbows Form

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3:33

Stacked Ball Drop

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2026/10/04

What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, taken to the next level. A big thank you to my nephews and niece Drew, Max and Whitney for creating the trampoline footage! Thank you to the Vlogbrothers for sponsoring this video, to Kyle Kitzmiller for filming, and to Island School on Kauai for providing the balls (ischool.org).

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5:47

Calculating Pi with Darts

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2026/10/04

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

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4:18

Quarks Explained in Four Minutes

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2026/10/04

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

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9:19

What do programmers actually do?

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2026/09/22

What do programmers actually do?

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4:00

This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba...

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2026/09/22

There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon. There appears to be no shadow because the sun is directly overhead. This phenomenon happens twice a year for latitudes between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn at solar noon, when the sun is highest in the sky. But you have to be in the right place at the right time with no clouds! The photos and clips in this video were taken by my mom, Cathy, and friend Noel

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15:06

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

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2026/09/22

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

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6:01

How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT

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2026/09/21

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

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1:27

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

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2026/09/21

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

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9:19

What do programmers actually do?

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2026/09/21

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

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8:28

How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon...

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2026/09/21

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

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5:49

Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe

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2026/09/20

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

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5:55

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

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2026/09/20

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

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2:41

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

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2026/09/20

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

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4:19

Singing plates - Standing Waves on Chladni plates

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2026/09/20

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

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9:51

Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can...

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2026/09/20

How badly is our planet heating up? I’ve put together an experiment that asks: How much of an olympic-sized swimming pool would be filled with glacial meltwater in the time it takes to ski down a glacier? Helping me - by actually skiing down a glacier - is JT Holmes. And you won’t believe the final answer.

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7:52

SLOW MOTION SCIENCE! Ferrofluid dropping on magnet

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2026/09/20

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

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