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Origin Of EverythingEvery aspect of our daily reality, whether its the words we use, the pop culture we love, the technology that get us through the day, or even the identities we give ourselves, emerge from thousands of intersecting histories. And on this show, we're going to explore them ALL!
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- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
- Now Playing11minMeasuring the Universe With a 14-Billion Light-Year Ruler
- Now Playing16minHow Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Gravity is Not A Fundamental Force?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing8minIs the Southern Accent Disappearing?
- Now Playing15minThis Winter Trend Is Overpowering Global Warming
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
Eons
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing7minThe Sea Monster from the Andes
- Now Playing10minThe Reign of the Hell Ants
- Now Playing12minThe Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing9minHow the Egg Came First
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
- Now Playing8minWe Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing9minWhy Does Caffeine Exist?
- Now Playing10minWhen Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
- Now Playing10minThe Two Viruses That We've Had For Millions of Years
- Now Playing7minHow the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
Space Time
- Now Playing14minGamma-Ray Bursts: Crash Course Astronomy #40
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing10minS2: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
- Now Playing14minWhat If Physics IS Not Describing Reality?
- Now Playing12minWhat's On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
- Now Playing13minHow Will the Universe End?
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing14min'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing18minWhat If Gravity is Not Quantum?
- Now Playing9minWill Mars or Venus Kill You First?
- Now Playing11minBreaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?