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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.

Latest episodes

The Sun Is Weirder Than You Think

If you dove into the sun, the first layer you’d hit is hot enough to make diamonds BOIL. Right now we’re in a golden age of new solar science. For the first time, we’re getting close-up pictures of the Sun like we’ve never seen. Sending probes into its atmosphere. And revealing secrets about our star we never thought possible… Trust me, after this video, you’ll never look up at the sun the same wa

8 Oct 2026 · 18 min
The Vomit Comet ft. Emily Calandrelli

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

4 Oct 2026 · 5 min
World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train

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.

4 Oct 2026 · 6 min
Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

Special Relativity and the Twin Paradox

4 Oct 2026 · 5 min
How Rainbows Form

How Rainbows Form

4 Oct 2026 · 3 min
Stacked Ball Drop

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 prov

4 Oct 2026 · 3 min
Calculating Pi with Darts

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.

4 Oct 2026 · 5 min
Quarks Explained in Four Minutes

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

4 Oct 2026 · 4 min
What do programmers actually do?

What do programmers actually do?

22 Sep 2026 · 9 min
This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…

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 ri

22 Sep 2026 · 4 min
Ballistic Ping Pong Ball vs. Tennis Ball at 450km/h!

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

22 Sep 2026 · 15 min
How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT

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

21 Sep 2026 · 6 min
How to float a ping pong ball on air - The Coandă Effect

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

21 Sep 2026 · 1 min
What do programmers actually do?

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

21 Sep 2026 · 9 min
How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?

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

21 Sep 2026 · 8 min
Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe

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?

20 Sep 2026 · 5 min
Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

20 Sep 2026 · 5 min
What's in the darkest part of the sky? The Hubble Deep Field

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?

20 Sep 2026 · 2 min
Singing plates - Standing Waves on Chladni plates

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

20 Sep 2026 · 4 min
Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can Ski Down Them | Climate Games

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.

20 Sep 2026 · 9 min