Huge If True Podcast

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

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13 episodes
Updated July 26

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July 26 · 9 min
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 coming?? Turns out, they’re already here.
July 26 · 5 min
How This Telescope Searches For Aliens
This new image will help us answer the biggest question: Are we alone? Subscribe if you love optimistic technology stories. NASA just released the first pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built. They’re incredible. They show the deepest we’ve ever seen into space, stars being born, galaxies colliding.
July 24 · 8 min
The Big Misconception About Clean Energy
I’ve been thinking about energy use all wrong. Subscribe to support Huge If True, an optimistic tech show. As long as most of our energy still comes from fossil fuels, we’re in kind of a trap. Using less energy is our only real option to slow climate change. So most of us have heard only one message throughout our lives: “Conserve energy. Because terrible things will happen if we don’t.”
July 24 · 16 min
Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists
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.
July 21 · 8 min
Why More Sports Need Robot Referees
this video create was 2023 but recently I create new podcast so I posted this show.
July 21 · 2 min
Something Huge Is Coming...
Over the past two years on Huge If True, we’ve explored all kinds of new ideas and technologies that could change the world we live in. Like quantum computers, particle colliders, humanoid robots, new supersonic planes, and much more. We make this show because we believe that by envisioning better futures, we make them more likely to come true. Along the way, I’ve gotten to talk to some of the most important people building these new tools
July 18 · 11 min
5 Wild Experiments In Zero Gravity (Bonus Episode)
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.
July 18 · 21 min
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 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?
July 17 · 18 min
What's Hidden Under Antarctica?
In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they suddenly stopped. Because they’d found something unimaginable: Liquid water. A secret lake, down below all this ice, that had been completely sealed off from the rest of the world for 15 million years. How? And… is there something alive in there? Creatures that have been evolving separately from the rest of the planet for 15 million years?
July 17 · 17 min
The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built
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 forthe power
July 17 · 45 min
Jony Ive Shows The Real Process Behind the Ferrari Luce
You’re about to see the first ever all electric Ferrari. A car Ferrari said they’d never make, that will probably be the most controversial car they’ve ever made. Above all, it will definitely be a massive risk – new tech and new design that will impact all of us, whether or not we ever drive a Ferrari. I’m at a secret track in Italy to get a first look before it launches. And talk to the two people most responsible for it
July 16 · 11 min
Why You Can't Just Screenshot an NFT
The biggest question I hear about NFTs is: “Why can’t I just screenshot that?” Or, put another way, why does a digital image that can be copied have any value? The answer, it turns out, isn’t in an explainer about blockchain technology (you’re welcome). The answer to why NFTs have any value is hiding in the art market that came before them. Because NFTs are weird, but it turns out art is already even weirder.
July 16 · 6 min
Why I left Vox
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.

Huge If True Podcast

Why Aren't Planes Electric Yet?

How This Telescope Searches For Aliens

The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

Why This Olympic Sport Bothers Physicists

Why More Sports Need Robot Referees

Something Huge Is Coming...

5 Wild Experiments In Zero Gravity (Bonus Episode)

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

What's Hidden Under Antarctica?

The Craziest Experiment Humans Have Ever Built

Jony Ive Shows The Real Process Behind the Ferrari Luce

Why You Can't Just Screenshot an NFT

Why I left Vox