Cleo Abram

Huge If True - Cleo Abram

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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,...

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Can My Dog Live 80 Years 27.10.2025 8:55

The real science of puppy aging Subscribe to support optimistic science and tech videos! Meet Thor. He’s a 10-pound Australian Shepherd and, objectively, the cutest dog to ever live (except yours, of course). Thor is 8 years old, which means that he is likely about halfway through his life. I on the other hand am probably about a third of the way through mine. I hate that math. It seems cruel that...

5 Wild Experiments In Zero Gravity (Bonus Episode) 27.10.2025 11:09

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....

Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5. And What's Next 27.10.2025 1:05:07

We’re about to time travel into the future Sam Altman is building… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories. I interviewed Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. They’re trying to build a “superintelligence” that could far exceed humans in almost every field – and they just released their most powerful tool yet, GPT-5. A few years ago, that would’ve sounded like s...

The Real Reason We Should Revive Extinct Animals 27.10.2025 15:50

The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1982. But now… scientists are trying to bring it BACK. And it’s not alone! You might’ve seen news about dire wolves, woolly mammoths, passenger pigeons… dodo birds… dinosaurs?? “De-extinction” has become a huge and urgent scientific debate. But when I took a deep dive into what’s really going on here, I realized we're getting this conversation very, very...