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- 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?
16 min - How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT
Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid.
7 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.
2 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?
10 min - How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?
How does your reflection flip when you bend a spoon inward?
9 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?
6 min - 6 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?
3 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?
5 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.
10 min
About Huge If True Podcast
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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.