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- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of Game of Thrones
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Get Dizzy (...and Astronauts Don't?)
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing7minDoes My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing5minWhy Your Brain Is In Your Head
- Now Playing8min6 Chemical Reactions That Changed History
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Snowflakes
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing12minRecycling Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing5minHow Does A Canyon Become Grand?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Crocs Thrived in the Seas
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
- Now Playing7minIs This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
- Now Playing13minThe Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
- Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minHow Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing8minBeans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing5minS3 Ep18: Gravity in Your Brain ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson!
- Now Playing17minCould LIGO Find Massive Alien Spaceships?
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing12minDo Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
- Now Playing2minHow to Weigh a Fart
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing15minWhy Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
- Now Playing11minS2: Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth?
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing14minHow Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing15minWhere Is The Center of The Universe?
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
- Now Playing18minWhat If The Universe Is Math?
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 Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?