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Video journalist making optimistic tech explainers. Huge If True. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Twitter: https://twitter.com/cleoabram If 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.
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How Deep Could You Survive?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_IqL7e_4gUc
Published: May 26, 2025 17:47
How deep could you survive underwater? Let’s say you grab a tank full of regular air and start diving down… You’d quickly pass the depth a typical open water scuba diver can go. But as you go deeper, something strange starts to happen… We’re land…
How Big is Our Galaxy - And How Do We Know?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vOy9nGyMB2s
Published: May 25, 2025 12:51
The Milky Way is ENORMOUS… but how do we know how big it is? How do you figure out how far a star is? The Milky Way has over 100 billion stars in it and we’re still learning new things about it all the time. For more optimistic science and tech stories,…
Can You Live Underwater?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cz1XEWqL-Tc
Published: May 23, 2025 12:20
If you’ve ever thought, “what if I LIVED really deep underwater?” That’s what the US Navy did here! It was called SEALAB and to live down there, “aquanauts” had to breathe air with a lot of helium, which makes you sound… *SQUEAKY* They got a call from…
They Fixed DNA in Their Blood
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rw27ASB7S94
Published: May 21, 2025 16:11
We can now functionally cure sickle cell disease. Here’s how… If you have a mutation in a gene for a protein called hemoglobin, it can turn red blood cells hard and sticky, so they clump together and cause people a lot of pain. The most effective…
How Quiet are the World’s Quietest Rooms?
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Published: May 19, 2025 17:20
You might’ve seen the world’s quietest rooms in a YouTube video. So how quiet are they really? I’m in one right now! Normal human conversation around 60dB… The sound of you breathing is around 10… The quietest sound humans can hear is roughly 0… But…
First Baby Cured with Custom DNA Fix
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Published: May 18, 2025 14:22
This baby just became the first person in the world to FIX THEIR DNA through personalized gene editing! The tool is called CRISPR. To use it, scientists use a protein, directed by molecules that act like GPS coordinates, to search through a cell’s DNA…
You Can Fix Your DNA... Starting Now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0OXaanDHENI
Published: May 17, 2025 13:53
Human DNA editing is finally here. Check out the new WHOOP here! https://join.whoop.com/cleo 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…
They Dug to the Bottom of Antarctica
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Published: May 16, 2025 16:41
What if you drilled a hole to the bottom of Antarctica? That’s what these scientists did right here! Using a giant drill like this one, they cut a ring into the ice, creating a core in the middle. As they drilled deeper, they’re traveling back in time,…
Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet Anymore?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHgjUytfGWI
Published: May 14, 2025 16:39
What’s the real reason Pluto WAS a planet and isn’t anymore? My take: It never should have been. But I still love it! Hear me out! Once upon a time in 1930, there were 8 planets. Then an observatory in Arizona spotted a new one... If you look at the…
5 People Just Saw A New Color. How?
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Published: May 12, 2025 13:01
Five people just saw a color no one had ever seen before. Here’s how. In the back of your eye are special cells that let us see color - cones. There are three kinds, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light. So if you make a map of the relative…