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Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?

08.04.2026
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Does "the cloud" hold more data than a clouds hold raindrops? Can a new organ literally rewrite your personality?

Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens, VSauce, weigh our massive digital servers against a standard downpour, before unpicking the biology of transplant patients suddenly waking up with entirely new cravings.

Michael also has a new Curiosity Box coming featuring an altertative periodic table disguised as a snail pin badge to showoff to Hannah.

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Video Producer: Adam Thornton + Oli Oakley + Jack Meek

Video & Social: Bex Tyrrell

Producer: Simona Rata

Senior Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter

Head Of Digital: Samuel Oakley

Exec Producer: Neil Fearn

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