Cleo Abram
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People have been trying to reuse expensive rocket components for a long time. Particularly the booster, the part that boosts the piece with people or cargo out of our atmosphere. NASA has their rocket boosters detach and fall into the ocean, which means a specialized dive team has to go get it from the ocean, disassemble, refurbish, and then reload it with propellant.
SpaceX found ways to make their boosters turn around and propel themselves back to specialized landing areas, which was already a big deal and there’ve been a lot of hurdles along the way…
That’s what makes this accomplishment so cool. Not only is it part of the biggest rocket ever, Starship, but it returned back to the exact spot it launched from and lowered itself precisely into giant metal arms on its first attempt.
This means the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket is also quickly reusable - opening up so many possibilities for the future of spaceflight.
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In 2026, four astronauts will leave Earth on one of the most powerful rockets ever made. This Artemis III mission will be the first time anyone has been back to the moon since 1972.
When they arrive, two of them will descend to the surface and spend 6 and a half days there, which is twice as long as anyone has ever spent on the moon. And they’ll be the first humans to explore this region near the lunar South Pole. To do that, these astronauts need to be able to stay outside on the lunar surface longer than ever before.
For this big ambitious mission and for the future of space travel, we need the next generation of spacesuit…
I got to be one of the first civilians to try on the prototype of the REAL SUIT that will bring humans back to the moon - and maybe to Mars.
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Our current telescopes have identified we think around 94% of the largest asteroids in our Solar System. So the main challenge are the medium sized ones, which could still cause real damage, and we think we’ve only located 38% them. Luckily, scientists are currently building new telescopes that could increase that number to 60% by 2025 or 76% by 2027.
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These boats are wild... and also dangerous. That's why nobody has broken the world record set back in 1978. But it’s our obsession with speed that pushes us to build faster cars, planes, and boats. And I'm fascinated by the engineering behind that - so I’m actually working on a longer episode all about how the world’s fastest boats go so fast.
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It’s expected to orbit around us for about two months before escaping and traveling towards the sun. Unfortunately, it’s going to be too small for you to see with anything other than professional telescopes. But it won't be the last time we see this asteroid. It’s expected to return to Earth’s orbit in 2055...
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If you want to read the paper yourself, search this! DOI: 10.1103/PRXEnergy.3.023014
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These are different from other glasses where the displays move with your head, or headsets that recreate your environment digitally. With these, you see through the lenses while they add holograms that look don't move when you do.
Here's what they can do...
But what surprised me most was what he said about the future of these glasses in our full interview…
#Orion #MetaConnect #Technology #AR
I interviewed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg before Connect. There are not many people with more power over our future. Right now, Mark Zuckerberg and his team are imagining the future billions of people might live in, soon, and building towards it. So, in this conversation, my goal is to figure out what that future looks like. To paint a picture of the future Mark Zuckerberg is trying to build, so that you can decide for yourself what you think of it.
We talked about the Meta's new Orion prototype AR glasses, creating holograms and the Star Trek universal translator, generative AI changing social media, big trends in human connection, open sourced AI, Ray Ban Meta glasses and Quest 3S, the biggest genuine question on his mind right now, and more...
Welcome to the first episode of our new series, Huge Conversations…
Special thanks to Derek Thompson, for his generous guidance on my first long-form interview!
Chapters:
0:00 What is Mark Zuckerberg trying to build?
2:08 Meta's new Orion prototype AR glasses
4:42 How do Meta's Orion glasses work?
6:55 What's the future of AR?
9:50 What's the future of VR?
11:36 What is Meta trying to build?
13:18 Haptics is hard
17:18 Why does VR feel real?
20:16 Why are we having trouble connecting?
24:27 What should we use AI for?
28:17 What wouldn't he want his kids using AI for?
31:47 How will generative AI change social media?
35:43 What concerns does he see as most legitimate?
39:26 Why care about open source?
43:38 What is his biggest genuine question?
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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.
Vox: vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: 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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Over the past two years on Huge If True, we’ve explored all kinds of new ideas and technologies that could change the world we live in. Like quantum computers, particle colliders, humanoid robots, new supersonic planes, and much more.
We make this show because we believe that by envisioning better futures, we make them more likely to come true. Along the way, I’ve gotten to talk to some of the most important people building these new tools - the people whose visions of the future you and I might really end up living in!
And every time I have one of these conversations, I always have the same feeling: “Man, I wish I could have shared that whole conversation with… you!”
So, that’s what we’re going to do! Longer form, more in-depth, optimistic conversations with the people whose ideas are shaping the future. (In addition to the more crafted explainers we make already!)
Introducing… Huge Conversations.
If you want to know what the people building the future are imagining it will look like, Huge Conversations is the show for you.
Subscribe to join us TOMORROW, because our first episode is going to be... huge.
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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.
Vox: vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm10108242
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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What do you call a happy YouTuber?
A content creator.
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and it’s a big deal for the future of space travel. Here’s why - and if you love optimistic tech stories, subscribe for more!
It’s called an ion engine. NASA used one in their Deep Space 1 mission. Any kind of propulsion involves shooting stuff one way to get your ship to move the other. Rockets burn fuel and shoot down the gas created in a chemical reaction to send the rocket up. Burning fuel requires oxygen, which rockets have to carry.
Ion engines shoot out electrically charged gas, like Xenon or Krypton. And create electricity from the sun or a nuclear reactor to positively charge the gas. Then, using electric and magnetic fields, they accelerate the gas to 40 km/second or 90,000 mph. This is almost 10 times faster than chemical engines can shoot out gas, so they need much less fuel to push the ship forward and can operate for thousands of days. The problem is, the overall push is super small - it’s equivalent to the force it takes to hold a piece of paper in your hand.
So think of it as a slow build up that can get really fast over time, but can’t launch off the ground. For that, basically lighting a big candle works great :)
The future is probably a combo of different engines, each good at different things. One of you sent in a request to make a video on how these work, so we looked into it for you! Thank you!
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Imagine a giant cosmic football field, with the Sun right at the edge of the goal line...
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NASA is going back to moon for the first time in over 50 years and are planning for a permanent human presence there. But the surface of the moon is dangerous. You’re exposed to things like radiation, meteorites, and extreme temperatures. That’s where this guy comes in. The idea is it would hop around the low gravity surface and look inside pits called "skylights" that scientists believe could be the openings of giant underground tunnels
made from flowing lava back when the moon was just a bunch of hot magma.
When the robot - appropriately named “space hopper” - approaches a hole, it uses ground radar to take pictures of what’s underneath in hopes of discovering these tunnels. Some which are estimated to be big enough to build homes and bases in...
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Tardigrades are microscopic and totally awesome. They can survive crushing pressures, deep freezes, and decades without food or water. They can also survive insane amounts of radiation, which has confounded scientists, but now, they think they know how this tiny animal is doing it... and how that insight might apply to you and me.
I just love these creatures. Maybe my favorite science story ever is how tardigrades ended up on the moon… but that’s a story for another day, so subscribe for more!
This video is part of Huge If True, our optimistic series about science and technology.
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Right now, we’re living through one of the most pivotal moments in food history… and most people have no idea it’s happening.
Experts are calling the “Fourth Agricultural Revolution” and it’s here because we’re facing a big problem: The world’s population is rising, so experts say we’ll need to increase food output to catch up with our current population and feed those new people. But we’ve got to do it in ways that actually protect the Earth long term.
Right now, farmers are in a fight to feed the world. So let me show you some of the coolest machines they’re using to do it…
Chapters:
0:00 What’s the fourth agricultural revolution?
01:15 Why do we need more food?
1:54 Where does farming tech get tested?
3:00 What were the first 3 agricultural revolutions?
3:58 How do we feed billions more people… better?
4:31 How do farmers grow more food?
5:48 Can a tractor drive itself?
7:49 What is precision agriculture?
8:50 How do these machines plant seeds?
10:25 How can new tech help reduce herbicides?
12:43 Why new farm tech is huge if true
14:34 :)
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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.
Additional reading and watching:
- A Five Step Plan to Feed The World, Jonathan Foley, National Geographic: nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/feeding-9-billion
- A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population at risk of hunger for the period 2010–2050, Dijk et al: nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00322-9
- How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts, World Resources Institute: wri.org/insights/how-sustainably-feed-10-billion-people-2050-21-charts
- Patterns of Global Food Consumption, USDA: ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2024/june/patterns-of-global-food-consumption-expected-to-shift-in-next-quarter-century-as-population-incomes-rise/#:~:text=Projections%20to%202050&text=Under%20medium-population%20growth%2C%20world,47-percent%20increase%20from%202011
- The Development of Agriculture, National Geographic: education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/development-agriculture
- Famines, Our World In Data: ourworldindata.org/famines
- Human Health Issues Related to Pesticides, EPA: epa.gov/pesticide-science-and-assessing-pesticide-risks/human-health-issues-related-pesticides
- Water, Energy, and the Future of Farming, US Department of Energy: energy.gov/eere/iedo/articles/water-energy-and-future-farming
- US farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment, BBC: bbc.com/news/business-64206913
- AI meets agriculture with new farm machines to kill weeds and harvest crops, NBC: youtu.be/DjHGG7eQevY?si=sxTEoLckjesoBGwA
- Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less chemicals, Freethink: youtu.be/sV0cR_Nhac0?si=FzMbHORZx4ae_DlK
- How Big Tech Ruined Farming, Wendover Productions: youtu.be/1pYjtCaqiys?si=7HpmyDHpJ7qVXgX5
- What’s This Robot Doing In A Grain Bin? youtube.com/shorts/JLQDC4s32kY
- How has world population growth changed over time? Our World In Data: ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time
Vox: vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm10108242
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Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
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They’re called the Golden Records. But if you’re an alien, how do you know how to play a record?
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Would I get stuck in the middle? Would I bounce from side to side?
In real life, the deepest anyone has ever dug is .2% of the way to the center. And yet, we know a surprising amount about what's down below our feet...
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Before “supershoes,” a good “energy return” rate was 60-65%. Now? More like 80%. WAY more of the runner’s energy that they get to reuse. These new super shoes helped runners CRUSH world records and people complained the shoes gave them an “unfair advantage”. In the end, regulators decided not to ban the shoes, just add a few limits to the design, but it’s part of a huge debate in sports about “TECH DOPING” - what tech is TOO GOOD? And what simply makes humans better?
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In 2008, Speedo collaborated with NASA to make the “LZR Racer.” This suit was SO COOL. The fabric mimicked sharks’ skin with little channels that made water flow more easily. It had panels that sucked swimmers’ bodies
into a more streamlined position. And people speculated that the way it trapped air made athletes float better in the pool… which Speedo denied.
But other brands quickly made their own “supersuits” and this new tech helped swimmers CRUSH world records. The swimming world lost their minds...
When sports gear gets TOO GOOD like this, they call it “TECH DOPING”
And if you want to know more, watch our longer episode all about it!
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The goal of these suits is to fix some of the problems of the past. Specifically: They need to fit a wider range of body types, be more flexible, be repairable in orbit, and cost less.
We just got to visit Axiom Space and I am one of the only civilians to try on this suit… if you want to see that, watch our longer episode!
Imagine a New York where kids are jumping into the Hudson! Huge If True.
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There is a ton of cool sports gear that’s banned from sports for making athletes too good. Swimsuits that make a swimmer too streamlined, gloves that make a receiver’s hands too grippy, bats that let a player hit the ball too hard, and shoes that help a runner go too freaking fast…
They call it “TECH DOPING,” using physical gear to gain an unfair advantage. In this video, I’ll show you the banned gear you won’t see at the Paris Olympics, and the cutting edge tech you will see that’s on the very limit of what’s allowed.
You might be thinking, hold on, no gear should give athletes an advantage! But… we don’t run barefoot anymore. We don’t swim naked. We use tech to play sports. And that tech is always improving, pushing forward what humans can do.
So… where’s the line?
This is about way more than sports. In every part of our lives, technology pushes forward what we can do! And it’s up to us to decide what we want from it. This video is about that question.
We talked to athletes, looked at the world’s best gear, and even went all the way to Nike’s test lab to try on the real Team USA Olympic uniforms. This is the cutting edge of sports tech, explained.
Chapters:
0:00 What is “technology doping”?
1:48 What gear should be banned?
3:10 The world’s fastest swimsuit
4:23 Should this be allowed?
5:24 The world’s fastest shoes
6:28 I cut open a supershoe
8:32 What makes supershoes so fast?
9:28 I try the Team USA Olympic uniform
11:36 Should these shoes be allowed?
12:42 Should prosthetics be allowed?
14:01 Why Blake Leeper was banned from the Olympics
15:46 What is fair?
16:38 ;)
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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 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:
- Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football, NYT: nytimes.com/2019/01/20/sports/super-bowl-nfl-gloves.html
- Space Age Swimsuit Reduces Drag, Breaks Records, NASA: spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/ch_4.html
- Swimming Bans High-Tech Suits, Ending an Era, NYT: nytimes.com/2009/07/25/sports/25swim.html
- FINA LZR Racer Ruling: pvswim.org/official/rules/FINA_Swimsuits_2009-07.pdf
- Nike’s Fastest Shoes May Give Runners an Even Bigger Advantage Than We Thought, The Upshot: nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/13/upshot/nike-vaporfly-next-percent-shoe-estimates.html
- Supershoes Are Reshaping Distance Running, MIT Technology Review: technologyreview.com/2024/06/25/1093520/supershoes-running-kenya-carbon-plate-shoes
- The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfly Running Shoe, Explained, WSJ: youtu.be/wVXrIaPuP7c?si=btJyElVpQjbUpzaQ
- The Science Behind The World's Fastest Shoe, Cheddar: youtu.be/Mm61IkzyJxI?si=py7XHYQGOwgP4TYQ
- How Eliud Kipchoge Ran a Sub 2 Hour Marathon, Mike Boyd: youtu.be/A73HQwEct-o?si=uUk3mSj1YRR6KLXM
- He Could be the First American Amputee in the Olympics, Blake Leeper, Great Big Story: youtu.be/_P9GXINym4s?si=_y8JL-7n9qw2x6_J
- The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating, Half As Interesting: youtu.be/JRyqd0Z6kZI?si=8m1tfbmprNcRKOPl
Vox: vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
IMDb: imdb.com/name/nm10108242
Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro
Music: Musicbed, Tom Fox
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Which sport is always in trouble?
Badminton.
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It was part of a race to see who could retrieve a sample from Earth’s mantle first - kind of like the space race, but DOWN. Here's what they found...
Humanity’s deepest hole is only 0.002% of the way to the middle of the Earth. There’s still so much left to learn about our own planet.
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After grain on a farm is harvested - think barley, corn, wheat - it gets stored in HUGE grain bins. When the grain is ready to be shipped off the farm, it gets pulled out through the bottom by a rotating blade. Sometimes farmers have to go in there to break up chunks that are stuck together and ensure it all flows smoothly. But that can be dangerous because the grain can act like quicksand.
But this robot can do that task for them…
I love this robot. I’m learning so much about farming tech. I even got to visit John Deere’s test farm in Iowa, where I saw a TON of their craziest machines. Subscribe to see that story soon!
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Number 5 is 8.7 billion kilometers away. It's called New Horizons, launched in 2006 to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
Number 4 is 16 billion km away, called Pioneer 11 and launched in 1973. It was the first spacecraft to visit Saturn! But now it’s signal can’t reach us anymore.
Number 3 is 20 billion km away Pioneer 10. It was the first spacecraft to reach Jupiter!
Number 2 is Voyager 2, it just overtook Pioneer 10 this year!
And in first place….
We’re apes on a rock, sending little probes out into the universe, exploring more and more and there’s still SO MUCH left to explore!
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Really, you are hearing electrical signals made from ripples in liquid made from bones vibrating made from pressure waves… !!!!
Clever technology can help this process for people: Most hearing aids work by amplifying those waves right before they enter your ear. Some newer ones use machine learning to help decide which waves to amplify - and then those waves become vibrations which become ripples which become electrical signals which become SOUND TO YOUR BRAIN. Wild.
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You might’ve learned women are born with all the eggs they’re ever going to have - roughly 1 MILLION. But around 10,000 die every month during childhood, so most of us reach puberty with roughly ~300,000 eggs. Then each month, we release one while another 1,000 die. So over time there is this big decline in total quantity of eggs and that can be a big issue.
But another issue is how many of those eggs have 23 chromosomes. This is called “egg quality." Most of the time, having any other number of chromosomes means the resulting embryo never implants or grows. But you only release one egg a month, and as you get older, the chances that egg doesn’t have 23 chromosomes goes up. So scientists found it’s possible to remove eggs, freeze them, and then unfreeze them to use later! Real life cryosleep!
But there are some big issues...
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These suits are definitely not meant to be a practical mode of transportation
But they are making every little kid’s jetpack dreams a reality!
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When protons collide, we get a glimpse at what might have happened close to the start of our universe. That's because these collisions release an enormous amount of energy for how small protons are. But we know that energy and mass are related - so when these protons collide at incredibly fast speeds, that energy can turn into physical mass. Which is crazy! And even crazier: If the energy is high enough, it can turn into mysterious or unknown particles...
Scientists do this to try to understand some of the biggest questions, like “what is the universe made of?”, “where did it come from?” and “how did we get here?”.
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The smallest YOU can see with your eyes is roughly ten thousand times smaller than a meter. Things much smaller than that don’t reflect enough light for our eyes to register. So, people invented the optical microscope, which let us see things down to ten millionths of a meter by shining light and using lenses magnify the image. But past that, objects get smaller than the wavelength of visible light. So we need something even smaller to take a picture, like firing beams of electrons and measuring how they get reflected or transmitted.
There’s SO MUCH of the world that we can’t see with our eyes but we can see with technology!
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Look at a single strand of your hair. Now imagine that hair is as big across as the entire EARTH is wide. The size of a single cell inside your hair would be like the distance from Paris to Rome. A protein inside that cell would be like 6 soccer fields across. An atom inside that protein would be like one school bus across. The nucleus at the center of that atom would be like the width of a grain of rice. And the protons within that nucleus? They’d be like grains of salt.
So, a proton compared to the WIDTH OF YOUR HAIR is like a grain of salt compared to the ENTIRE EARTH.
And protons are what scientists are send flying around at nearly the speed of light to smash into each other inside particle colliders… like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It’s incredible we can do this. As humans, we only experience a tiny slice of the full scale of reality. But there is so much more!
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How and when people are having kids is changing, but our bodies aren’t.
As we get older, it can get harder to have kids when we want to. But doctors have found a way to remove human eggs, freeze them, then unfreeze them to use later. They can even fertilize eggs to make embryos and freeze those.
Basically, cryosleep exists! Just for tiny cells.
Here’s how this works - and why people do it.
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Our bodies are filled with water. But when water freezes, it expands and forms sharp crystals. If we froze you right now, those ice crystals would shred ya to bits from the inside! To freeze you without shredding you, we’d need to replace most of that water with special antifreeze - and cool it all down quickly and evenly, turning that antifreeze mixture solid in a process called “vitrification," end effectively pausing your body in time.
But unfortunately, you’re the wrong shape. Right now you’d either end up full of warm toxic antifreeze, or full of frozen deadly crystals. The math just doesn't work yet. But the math DOES work for tiny cells like human eggs and embryos.
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How and when people are having kids is changing, but our bodies aren't. As we get older, it can get harder to have kids when we want to. So smart people figured out it’s possible to remove eggs, freeze them, and unfreeze them to use later. They can even fertilize those eggs to make embryos and freeze those. Basically, humans invented cryosleep! … Just for tiny cells.
It’s totally sci-fi - and you need to know about it. This is a level of control over our bodies no species has ever had before. It’s already changing people’s lives - and how our species can reproduce. But there are real concerns about whether it’s worth it. Because let me tell you, the process is not easy.
I’ve been taking medication for two weeks. And at the same time, I’ve been doing research, talking to doctors, and learning as much as I can about the cutting edge of fertility tech. In this video, I'm going to take you behind the scenes into my own process to answer three big questions: Why do egg freezing? How does it actually work? And what is the future here - if this tech keeps getting better - how might egg freezing be huge, if true?
Chapters:
0:00 What is egg freezing?
1:30 Why is egg freezing so popular?
2:55 What is egg quantity?
3:32 What is egg quality?
4:30 Why does egg quality decline with age?
5:59 This is hard to talk about
7:45 Why don’t we have cryosleep yet?
8:46 Why does egg freezing work?
9:28 How does egg freezing work?
10:37 Egg freezing timeline
11:57 My egg freezing process
13:45 Egg freezing side effects
15:13 Egg freezing cost
15:40 Egg freezing success rates
16:49 Why egg freezing is huge if true
18:30 Getting surgery
19:30 Feeling grateful
21:01 :)
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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 the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s 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:
- Frozen in time: How to deep freeze an organ and bring it back to life science.org/content/article/how-to-deep-freeze-entire-organ-bring-it-back-to-life
- The Near Future of Vitrification of Oocytes and Embryos ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558340
- Census data on fertility census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/fertility-rates-declined-for-younger-women-increased-for-older-women.html?utm_campaign=20220406msacos1ccstors&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
- U.S. median age for giving birth hits 30, NBC nbcnews.com/news/motherhood-deferred-us-median-age-giving-birth-hits-30-rcna27827
- The sharp rise in egg freezing, BBC bbc.com/worklife/article/20220816-the-sharp-rise-in-egg-freezing
- ‘Sobering’ Study Shows Challenges of Egg Freezing, NYT nytimes.com/2022/09/23/health/egg-freezing-age-pregnancy.html
- “The failed promise of egg freezing,” Vox vox.com/health/24141538/egg-freezing-cost-age-ivf-fertility-pregnancy
- Female fertility age chart: chances of getting pregnant by age ro.co/fertility/female-fertility-age-chart
- Role of maternal age and pregnancy history in risk of miscarriage study ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425455
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So… uh… spacesuits are REALLY IMPORTANT. And if you want to see how NASA's new space suit protects astronauts from space, go check out our longer video.
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in opposite directions, pushing them faster and faster until, when they’re almost the speed of light, they finally smash together!
But my question was… how do they get them to actually hit each other?? Here's the answer.
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There were 4 groups: Large language models, groups of expert eye doctors, eye doctors in training, and unspecialized junior doctors. Everyone had to answer 87 questions from a standard test that doctors in the UK need to pass before becoming an eye specialist. Here's how they each did.
The intention of this study is NOT to see if any AI tool can replace any doctors. This study just showed that in this one test, one model’s performance was almost as good as experts. We could imagine a world where more generalized doctors who don’t have easy access to a specialist could ask an AI for a second opinion or help make a referral or even help with a diagnosis. It’s one way researchers are exploring how to improve medical care for more people.
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This probe, Voyager 1, is 46 years old and over 15 billion miles away. But starting last November, it started sending repeated gibberish…
This isn’t the first time scientists have run into issues with this 46-year-old probe, which isn’t surprising. But I just love the dedication of NASA scientists who refuse to give up on this little probe that keeps trekking further into our universe than humans ever have before.
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Not because it is likely to fall down, but because it could hit important satellites and harm space travel. Here's how people are trying to fix it...
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The sun often spews out super hot gas filled with charged particles. Luckily, Earth’s magnetic field protects us from them! But they can interact with gasses in our atmosphere, giving those molecules extra energy or “exciting” them - and as they relax back to their natural energy state, they release photons in different wavelengths or colors.
THAT’s what we see. We call it the aurora borealis, or Northern lights.
You can actually tell WHICH gas molecules got excited by the color!
We're seeing the lights in way more places right now because we went through a big solar storm - but we were expecting it! Our Sun goes through cycles of about 11 years and we’re approaching another maximum right now.
These lights are a beautiful reminder of how Earth’s magnetic field protects us and allows life to prosper, and it’s so cool that more people got to see it.
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Only 12 people have ever walked on the moon and they all did it within just 4 years of each other. Then, for the last 50 years, no one has gone back… but that’s about to change.
Soon, astronauts will return to the moon to prepare for people to live there long-term and to get us ready to send the first humans to Mars. But to do it, they need to survive outside in space and work for hours in one of the most dangerous conditions a human will ever face. The problem is, our spacesuits for the Moon haven’t been updated in decades! But now, to make this next chapter in space possible, space suits are getting a major upgrade.
These new suits will give astronauts the superpower to do more, for longer… and I’m one of the first civilians to put one on.
In this video, we’re taking you behind the scenes to show how Axiom Space is designing, building, and testing NASA’s new space suits. I am going to put myself and this suit to the test, to give you a sneak peak into what it looks like, what it feels like, and how it could change what humanity can do in space...
Chapters:
0:00 Why NASA needs new spacesuits
01:28 NASA’s Artemis mission, explained
03:02 This is NASA’s new spacesuit
03:45 How you would die in space
05:46 Not all spacesuits are the same
07:04 Why spacesuits are so expensive
07:51 The new era of spaceflight
09:07 How astronauts use the bathroom
09:55 How astronauts scratch their face
10:48 How to put on a spacesuit
12:31 How a spacesuit protects you
13:36 How astronauts practice walking in space
14:33 What a pressurized spacesuit feels like
15:55 Why is NASA’s new spacesuit black and orange?
16:42 Why spacesuits are mostly handmade
18:02 How NASA’s new spacesuits fit more people
19:16 How much does NASA’s new spacesuit weigh?
19:45 Challenge 1: Collect a sample
21:07 Challenge 2: RUN
22:45 Challenge 3: Squat
23:26 Challenge 4: Kneel
24:10 Why spacesuits are huge if true
25:50 They’re also building a space station??
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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 the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s 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:
- Tour of the Moon in 4K: youtu.be/nr5Pj6GQL2o?si=kI2nOD1rIGaMygky
- “Why Spacesuits Are So Expensive,” Business Insider: youtu.be/_SZujgXkpKM?si=rtW1wr5w4dRKymkl
- Who Has Walked on the Moon? NASA: science.nasa.gov/moon/moon-walkers
- The Next Generation Spacesuit, Axiom: axiomspace.com/axiom-suit
- “How Astronauts Put on Space Suits,” Adam Savage’s Tested: youtu.be/VsdoJy8rzZg?si=Of5ZW54pryBGGh_s
- “The Original Sin of NASA Space Suits,” The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/nasa-spacesuit-women-spacewalk/585805
- “How 3 NASA Missions Could Send Astronauts Back to the Moon,” New York Times: nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/27/science/nasa-moon-artemis-launch.html
- Artemis, NASA: nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis
- “NASA’s Next-Generation Spacesuits,” CNBC: youtu.be/oXAsvg_ZZzk?si=kZvfejQ-UKqHQAM7
- Dude Perfect Goes to SPACE (this is awesome): youtu.be/YXXlSG-du7c?si=jRwdqLWEGV_ZEoLr
- “Astronaut Chris Hadfield Debunks Space Myths,” WIRED: youtu.be/t6rHHnABoT8?si=fxRTY97Zt05XaDx7
Vox: vox.com/authors/cleo-abram
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Ewoked
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