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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 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 Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing13minHow To Capture Black Holes
- Now Playing12minScience of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Now Playing16minIs 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing13minThe Doomsday Argument
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- 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 Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- 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 Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- 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?