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 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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What do programmers actually do? Sep 22, 2026

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What do programmers actually do?

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

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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 Liddell in Wailua, Po’ipu and Lawai, HI on July 11th (one day before exact Lahaina noon) and July 12th.

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

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

How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT Sep 21, 2026

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

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

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

What do programmers actually do? Sep 21, 2026

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

How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward? Sep 21, 2026

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

Seeing the Smallest Thing in the Universe Sep 21, 2026

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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?

Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki Sep 21, 2026

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Tricky Spool Riddle SOLUTION - ft Anne Wojcicki

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

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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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