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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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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 Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing9minCan You Bend Light Like This?
- Now Playing10minCould You Be a Chimera?
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing6minWhat's the Deadliest Animal in the World?
- Now Playing4minSpace Sounds
- Now Playing5minBats: Guardians of the Night
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Beer
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minWhat's REALLY Warming the Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing7minAre We All Related?
- Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- 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 Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
Eons
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing12minWhen Bats Took Flight
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing8minShould the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing14minSpace DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Now Playing15minHow To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Now Playing7minAre We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
- Now Playing17minDid AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing15minIs Pluto a Planet?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing7minCan A Starfox Barrel Roll Work in Space?
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens Inside a Proton?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?