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- 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
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing6minWhy It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
- Now Playing12minEvolution FAILS in the Human Body
- Now Playing3minDoes The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing8minEbola Explained
- Now Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing6min1 MILLION Species Could Go Extinct... Here's Why.
- Now Playing6minPay Attention!
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
Monstrum
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
Eons
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
- Now Playing10minHow Pollination Got Going Twice
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing10minWhen Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing11minWhen Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
- Now Playing8minHow Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing12minWhat If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
- Now Playing13minWhere Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
- Now Playing12minDark Matter: Crash Course Astronomy #41
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing13minQuantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
- Now Playing11minHow Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing12minDoes Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
- Now Playing13minAre Axions Dark Matter?
- Now Playing15minNeutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing13minWill You Travel to Space?
- Now Playing13minDoes Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- 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?