Cleo Abram

The real story about “de-extinction”...
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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 wrong.

We're on the cusp of a huge genetic breakthrough… and yet the most "huge if true" thing happening here isn’t bringing back extinct animals. It's what this means for all the animals alive today!

And very few people seem to know about it…

Chapters:
00:19 Can we bring back extinct animals?
01:22 Can we bring back a mammoth?
02:24 Is Jurassic Park possible?
05:44 Are Dire Wolves brought back from the dead?
6:26 What is de-extinction?
09:04 How do we save cute little animals?
11:08 Is the Tasmanian tiger coming back?
12:50 When is it ok to bring back an extinct animal?
14:09 What’s coming next for de-extinction?
15:10 Why is this huge if true?
15:42 :)

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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- SciShow “What Caused the Mass Extinction of Billions of Passenger Pigeons?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twr53QVGh0E
- Colossal "The First Dire Wolf Howl in Over 10,000 Years" https://youtu.be/vPX4tm-J2bU?si=RtSR_kFiJsueBzVL
- PBS Terra “What if we Brought Back the Passenger Pigeon”: https://youtu.be/7z8rXihJV4Y?si=QhhVkvc0u0fjZ8WE
- Nature on PBS “Coral Reefs That Can Finally Beat the Heat | WILD HOPE”: https://youtu.be/adcfkAplT_4?si=f4wby33bHOUTrDT-
- TIME “No Longer Extinct? Colossal Biosciences' Dire Wolf Project” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ta3TX2Zgw
- Science Magazine “Pleistocene Park: Born to rewild” https://youtu.be/IWnlPYu3ovQ?si=9fAMoiQtMSy8Wm14
- Be Smart “The Strange Evolutionary Story of the Thylacine”: https://youtu.be/fHs_lniTNvI?si=Hq3G4GOFuFSsfL5l
- The Joe Rogan Experience “#2338 - Beth Shapiro” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsMH1-Bbqr0
- You can learn more about Black Footed Ferrets and the work from Revive and Restore on their website: https://reviverestore.org/
- To read about the efforts to biobank animals check out the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance: https://sandiegozoowildlifealliance.org/biodiversity-banking

Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/

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Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro

Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox

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Electric planes are already here. But they don't look like I thought...
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Are electric planes possible? And if so, when are they coming?? Turns out, they’re already here.

For this episode of Huge If True, I went to visit an electric plane company called Beta. Before the shoot, I thought the weight of batteries basically meant electric planes weren’t that useful, and wouldn’t be for a long time. What I learned is that in the last 10 years, we’ve gotten a lot better at making batteries (look at your phone!). Those gains mean electric planes are starting to do more. And that’s a big deal - for carbon emissions and climate change, but also for redesigning how planes look and fly. The future of aviation will look very different than the planes you take today.

I couldn’t fly in one of the electric planes (trust me, I tried!), but I did get up in the air another way…

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Chapters:
00:00 Electric planes are here
00:56 Why are electric planes important?
02:16 Why are there no electric planes?
03:36 How do electric planes work?
05:52 What do electric planes look like?
06:42 What is VTOL?
07:48 How do electric planes slow climate change?
09:14 What is the future of airplanes?

Sources and further reading:
- Carbon emissions from aviation, Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation
- Carbon emissions by short-haul v long-haul flights, Our World In Data: https://ourworldindata.org/breakdown-co2-aviation
- Carbon emissions by short-haul more detail, ICCT: https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_CO2-commercl-aviation-2018_20190918.pdf
- More on Beta in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/business/beta-electric-airplane.html
- Airships through the ages, The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/airships-through-the-ages
- Battery math for volumetric energy density (Wh/L):
2010: Aviation fuel is ~30-34 MJ/L = ~8300-9000 Wh/L = ~100x lithium ion batteries in 2010 which were about 90 (source: Dept of Energy).
2020: Aviation fuel remains ~30-34 MJ/L = ~8300-9000 Wh/L = ~20x lithium ion batteries in 2020 which were about 450 (source: Dept of Energy). https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1234-april-18-2022-volumetric-energy-density-lithium-ion-batteries
- Battery math for gravimetric energy density (Wh/kg):
2010: Aviation fuel is 46.2 MJ/kg (roughly) = 12833 Wh/kg = 12833 / 250 = ~50x lithium ion batteries in 2010 which were roughly 250 (source: Beta).
2020: Aviation fuel remains ~46.2 MJ/kg = 12833 Wh/kg = 12833 / 370 = ~34x lithium ion batteries in 2020 which were roughly 250 (source: Beta).

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Bio:
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. Each episode takes on one big technology innovation or idea, explains what it is, and helps people imagine the ways it could improve the world we live in by answering one simple question: If this works, what could go right?

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This truck is going to the moon. So we put it to the test…
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This is the world’s first “space truck.” It’s going to the moon to help us go farther, faster, and discover places we’ve never been…

Because humans are about to go back to the moon for the first time in 50 years! And no one but its builders have ever driven it… until today.

In this video I'm going to put this brand new space truck to the test in a series of 5 challenges. And I've invited someone who knows a thing or two about challenges: YouTube daredevil and host of Challenge Accepted… Michelle Khare!

Let’s go.

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Chapters:
0:00 This is the world’s first space truck
0:38 Introducing Michelle Khare!
01:04 What is a space truck?
01:52 How do astronauts drive?
02:21 First impressions!
02:47 Moon truck v normal truck
04:47 How fast can you drive on the moon?
05:18 Will we crash?
08:36 Can we break the lunar speed record?
10:33 Why go faster on the moon?
11:12 How does an astronaut get rescued?
13:52 Can this truck drive itself?
17:00 Why do we need a self-driving space truck?
17:48 How does an astronaut gather samples?
22:03 NIGHT DRIVING
22:41 Why is this Space Truck huge if true?
23:00 :)

Bio: Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- Watch Michelle’s new video doing Tom Cruise's deadliest stunt: https://youtu.be/IcDr8_oleB4?si=K7wuiEjv3Xkk9fs0
- Watch Michelle do another incredible challenge: Houdini’s Deadliest Trick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UdXsm9gJ-s
- How to Make A Space Truck: Welcome to Lunar Outpost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmHh6AMeMHU
- How We Are Going to the Moon (NASA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8cn2J13-4
- Apollo Moon Landing, NASA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOcDftgR5UQ
- How Could We Build a Moon Base Today, Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8
- Moon 101, NatGeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AviDjR9mmo
- How NASA Drives the $144M Vehicle that Transports Rocket Ships, Business Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5caQPiRBCAA
- Lunar Outpost LTV: https://www.lunaroutpost.com/ltv
- NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicles: https://www.nasa.gov/suits-and-rovers/lunar-terrain-vehicle/
- Three Commercial Moon Rovers Undergo Testing at NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/new-commercial-artemis-moon-rovers-undergo-testing-at-nasa/
- NASA Selects Companies to build Lunar Terrain Vehicles https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-companies-to-advance-moon-mobility-for-artemis-missions/
- NASA Artemis Mission https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis

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Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro

Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox

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We attempted nuclear fusion. In Simone’s workshop.
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Disclaimer: This build was supervised by experts at Helion. Do not try this at home.

I still can’t believe this video really happened. Back in May, I interviewed Helion CEO David Kirtley. I was trying to understand nuclear fusion: Is nuclear fusion possible now? How does fusion actually work? And most importantly, is nuclear fusion the future? Then, at the end of the interview, I asked David about headlines I’d seen about people building nuclear fusion devices in their backyards - what were they doing? “Oh,” David replied, “you can build one.”

What followed is the biggest adventure yet on Huge If True. Together with the team at Helion and my friend fellow YouTuber Simone Giertz, we BUILT A NUCLEAR FUSION DEVICE to show how nuclear fusion works, what the big remaining challenges are, and how it might help us all in the future.

Then, the last step was to try to turn it on…

WATCH "FUSION, EXPLAINED: PART 1" HERE: https://youtu.be/piPbnKdve9M

HUGE (no asterisk) thank you to David, Jessie, Ron, Joben, and the entire team at Helion for helping make our nuclear fusion dreams possible. It's truly a life moment I'll never forget and I'm so grateful.

Watch Simone’s channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@simonegiertz

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Chapters:
00:00 We’re trying to do nuclear fusion
01:48 What is nuclear fusion?
02:48 How do you build a fusion device?
03:37 How is nuclear fusion possible?
04:36 What is the big challenge with fusion?
05:36 What does nuclear fusion look like?
06:12 We’re great at this
07:08 UH OH
08:02 Here comes the fusion fuel!
08:32 The “Do Not Die” section
09:07 DID WE DO IT??
12:38 Is fusion possible at scale?
13:32 THANK YOU HELION

Sources and further reading:
- Nuclear fusion, simply explained: https://youtu.be/piPbnKdve9M
- “How Helion’s approach to fusion works” https://youtu.be/HlNfP3iywvI
- "Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes" (most recent news) https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7?shareType=nongift
- The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet, by Arthur Turrell: https://www.amazon.com/Star-Builders-Nuclear-Fusion-Planet/dp/1982130660
- The Future of Fusion Energy, by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball: https://www.amazon.com/Future-Fusion-Energy-Jason-Parisi/dp/1786347490
- Atomic Awakening: A New Look At The History And Future Of Nuclear Power, by James Mahaffey: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Awakening-History-Future-Nuclear/dp/1605981273
- Principles Of Fusion Energy: An Introduction To Fusion Energy For Students Of Science And Engineering (Illustrated Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Fusion-Energy-Introduction-Engineering/dp/9812380337
- “Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy,” BBC: https://youtu.be/0fYiNVRmOA4
- “Fusion Power Explained: Future or Failure,” Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/mZsaaturR6E
- “We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor, The B1M: https://youtu.be/4BkOUOK0XzM

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Bio:
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 h

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We’re about to time travel into the future Sam Altman is building…
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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 science fiction! Not anymore. In fact, they’re not alone. We’re in the middle of the most high stakes global race any of us have ever seen. Hundreds of billions of dollars and an unbelievable amount of human work…

It’s a profound moment. Most people never see a huge technological shift like this in their lives and it’s happening all around us right now. So in this conversation, I’m going to try to time travel into the future with Sam Altman, to see what he’s trying to build… so you and I can really understand what’s coming.

Welcome to HUGE* Conversations.

Chapters:
0:00 What future are we headed for?
2:06 What can GPT-5 do that GPT-4 can’t?
6:57 What does AI do to how we think?
10:52 When will AI make a significant scientific discovery?
13:09 What is superintelligence?
16:17 How does one AI determine “truth”?
18:35 It’s 2030. How do we know what’s real?
21:20 It’s 2035. What new jobs exist?
24:02 How do you build superintelligence?
26:00 What are the infrastructure challenges for AI?
28:18 What data does AI use?
29:50 What changed between GPT1 v 2 v 3…?
32:55 What went right and wrong building GPT-5?
35:40 “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI”
37:57 It’s 2040. What does AI do for our health?
40:00 Can AI help cure cancer?
41:10 Who gets hurt?
43:00 “The social contract may have to change”
45:22 What is our shared responsibility here?
49:21 “We haven’t put a sex bot avatar into ChatGPT yet”
51:40 What mistakes has Sam learned from?
53:10 “What have we done”?
57:40 How will I actually use GPT-5?
59:40 Why do people building AI say it’ll destroy us?
1:03:16 Why do this?

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Bio:
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. Every episode mixes high quality animations and detailed scripts with relatable vlog-style journeys, taking the audience along for an adventure to answer the question: If this works, what could go right? 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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IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10108242/

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The fight for the future of car racing has begun...
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You already know about Formula 1. The car racing sport is famous around the world and is skyrocketing in popularity in the US in part because of the Netflix series Drive To Survive. But Formula 1 has a problem.

More and more the cars that we drive are going fully electric, and the cars that they drive… aren’t. That matters, because the real reason F1 gets all this money and attention is that big companies are investing in and advertising their cutting edge tech. If that tech gets outdated, it loses the point - and the extra investment. What is the future of car racing? If it’s electric, does F1 change? Or is someone else going to get there first?

Enter Formula E, the all-electric Formula 1.

In this video, we explore the future of car racing, explain Formula E’s amazing tech and wild rules, and break down the drama within one of the world’s most popular and expensive sports.

Chapters:
00:00 Will Formula 1 go electric?
1:27 What is Formula E?
2:13 How did Formula E start?
3:01 Why isn't F1 electric?
5:30 What are the rules of Formula E?
7:52 What does a Formula E car look like?
9:18 Are F1 cars hybrid?
10:13 Formula E Gen 3: What's new?
11:30 Why don't Formula E cars have rear brakes?
13:36 What is the future of car racing?

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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- The FIA explaining Formula E: https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/what-is-formula-e
- My absolute favorite newsletter on F1, Engine Failure by Lily Herman: bit.ly/EngineFailureF1
- “An introduction to Formula E” by Chain Bear: https://youtu.be/eRNJpYUun0Q
- “F1 Drivers Explain F1,” from F1 https://youtu.be/twAlqtvVMdc
- “How a Formula 1 Race Car Works” by Animagraffs https://youtu.be/V7707zEX9X4
- “The Insane Logistics of F1,” by Wendover Productions https://youtu.be/6OLVFa8YRfM
- “Top 5 reasons you should watch Formula E” by Donut Media: https://youtu.be/Kvw96nu8KAE
- “How to Make F1 Sounds,” by Matt Chambers :) https://youtu.be/I_jDJvfYEgA

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Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro

Music: Musicbed

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I tested 5 wild experiments in a zero gravity plane...
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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.

So, in this extended cut, I’m going to give you a rare glimpse inside this falling laboratory and show you how the experiments they’re doing could be huge if true…

Chapters:
0:00 What happens to your brain in space?
0:32 Why scientists want to fall from the sky
1:10 How do zero gravity planes work?
1:56 Experiment 1
3:58 Experiment 2
5:28 Experiment 3
7:23 Experiment 4
8:50 Experiment 5
10:27 Why these experiments are huge if true

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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- Why Gravity Is A Lie, Explained in Zero G, our previous episode of Huge If True! https://youtu.be/5zJbE7J3X8I?si=KbOiyJXMAaXzS4hX
- Experiment 1: Blood Sucking Pants: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable-lower-body-negative-pressure/overview/
- Experiment 2: Space Pilates: https://www.nasa.gov/reference/jsc-exercise-countermeasures/
- Experiment 3: Brain Study: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/lab-for-equilibrium-investigations-and-aerospace/space-research/projects/parabolic-flight-campaign-2024-2025/
- Experiment 4: John McFall Astronaut Prep: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Astronauts/John_McFall
- Experiment 5: Photonic Propulsion: https://www.planetary.org/sci-tech/lightsail
- What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf
- Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP
- A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy
- What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J

Vox: https://www.vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox

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We’re not looking for a “cure for cancer” anymore. Cancer is hundreds of diseases, so we’re really in a multi front fight against all of them. Cancer is a problem for us today in a way it wasn’t for previous generations. But, luckily, we also have more and more ways to fight back.

I started this episode with endless questions: What is cancer? What causes it? How do we treat cancer? What are the symptoms? Why are some cancers easier to treat than others? Why is cancer so hard to cure? Why do so many people die of cancer?

What I found is an incredible, complex, inspiring effort to treat and stop an insidious killer. In this video, we dive deep into how we treat cancer today. But I also found that we may not be helping the greatest number of people we can.

In this episode of Huge If True, I want to make the case that while we have made enormous strides in the fight against cancer we have also largely ignored one of the single best ways to save the most lives.

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Chapters:
00:00 Why do so many people get cancer?
02:06 What is cancer?
03:02 How do we treat cancer?
03:44 What is chemotherapy?
04:42 What is immunotherapy?
06:27 How do we save more lives?
07:47 Does early detection save lives?
09:23 How do we detect cancer?
10:45 What are the downsides of cancer tests?
11:38 Why early cancer detection matter?
12:42 Can we cure cancer?

Sources and additional reading:
- Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer, American Cancer Association https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/general-info/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer.html
- Crunching Numbers: What Cancer Screening Statistics Really Tell Us, National Cancer Institute https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/screening/research/what-screening-statistics-mean
- Cancer, Our World In Data https://ourworldindata.org/cancer
- A New Deal For Cancer, collected essays (including by Greg Simon) https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/abbe-r-gluck/a-new-deal-for-cancer/9781541700611/
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Emperor-of-All-Maladies/Siddhartha-Mukherjee/9781439170915
- How does cancer spread through the body? TED-Ed https://youtu.be/OcigJn8UJNQ
- Have We Discovered a Cure for Cancer... on Accident? SciShow https://youtu.be/e-V_MDVgISo
- What is cancer? City of Hope https://youtu.be/_N1Sk3aiSCE
- Why Don’t We All Have Cancer? VSauce https://youtu.be/Qja4z1HGDQo
- Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer, Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/1AElONvi9WQ

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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained, produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

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There’s a big problem with gravity…
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Gravity is a lie. I went into zero gravity to explain why…

But it won't be easy because gravity is actually one of the most controversial subjects in all of physics.

This is not some philosophical debate. A huge amount of the tech you use every day depends on our current (limited) understanding of gravity.

If we can understand gravity a little bit better, we can build more things that are huge if true!

So in this video, I joined the European Space Agency on a real zero gravity flight and interviewed theoretical physicists to understand: What really IS gravity? And what are the real life sci-fi ways we might use it in the future?

Chapters:
0:00 The big problem with gravity
0:58 What is a zero gravity flight?
1:40 What is gravity?
2:49 What’s Einstein’s equivalence principle?
3:40 What does zero gravity feel like?
5:52 Why is falling the same as floating?
6:58 How did gravity disappear?
9:28 Why is gravity not a force?
11:35 What is spacetime?
13:16 Why does this matter?
14:58 Why is gravity fake?
15:48 What are the four fundamental forces?
16:50 Quantum mechanics v gravity
17:55 The theory of everything!
18:51 AdS/CFT
20:10 What if we could change gravity?
21:50 Something you might love

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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- Professor Janna Levin’s Dispatches from the Universe: https://jannalevin.substack.com/
- Where Did the Universe Come From? And other books from Professor Geraint Lewis: https://www.geraintflewis.com/
- The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity, Professor Juan Maldacena: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200
- The AdS/CFT Correspondence, Veronika Hubeny: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00007
- What Everyone Gets Wrong About Gravity, Veritasium: https://youtu.be/XRr1kaXKBsU?si=vg_FzbxI7-xuaqzf
- Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty, Wired with Professor Janna Levin: https://youtu.be/QcUey-DVYjk?si=oaDEWY17EzaY5QDP
- A new way to visualize General Relativity, ScienceClic English: https://youtu.be/wrwgIjBUYVc?si=weHFqeZVPJ56mCRy
- What Bothers Physicists About Black Holes, my interview with Brian Cox: https://youtu.be/bY1EQ6HD-ao?si=RBkiPjEd6RXlJR2J
- Space-Time: The biggest problem in physics, Quanta: https://youtu.be/RIqVnFtOSr4?si=0cCObYwb3n1vAPOi


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Why did Einstein develop a theory about space?
Well, it was about time!

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Quantum computers aren’t what you've been told...
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You’ve heard about quantum computers. Maybe you’ve seen the “race for quantum supremacy” between governments and companies, or read that quantum computers will break all encryption, or heard terms like “qubits” or “superposition” or “quantum mechanics” in a confusing tv segment. But you might be wondering… what does a quantum computer actually DO? And how could it actually affect my life?

@mkbhd and I had the same questions. Marques and I both realized quantum computing was this big important technology… that we didn’t really understand. So we decided to go on an adventure to learn the truth about quantum computers. And we're taking you with us, to show you what we learn as we learn it. But more importantly, to show you how these crazy computers might actually impact YOUR life... sooner than you think.

Chapters:
00:00 What is a quantum computer?
02:00 Why is quantum computing important?
04:00 The Quantum Video Game analogy
07:40 What does a quantum computer look like?
09:38 How does a quantum computer work?
12:00 What is a quantum computer good for?
13:21 Will quantum computers break all encryption?
15:22 What's the future of quantum computing?
16:27 Updating the Quantum Video Game analogy

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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Additional reading and watching:
- For more from the IBM team, I love the Qiskit YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@qiskit
- Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Michael G. Raymer https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35498912
- Totally Random, Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics by Tanya Bub and Jeffrey Bub (a comic about quantum mechanics!) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36642373
- How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now by Veritasium https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs
- Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology by Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be/JhHMJCUmq28
- Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics by Quanta Magazine https://youtu.be/jHoEjvuPoB8
- The Map of Quantum Computing by Domain of Science https://youtu.be/-UlxHPIEVqA

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There are 3 types of people in this world:
Those who understand quantum computing
Those who do not understand quantum computing
And those who both simultaneously do and do not understand quantum computing ;)

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