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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 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 Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing8minWhen Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
- Now Playing2minWhat Is Evolution, Anyway? - 12 Days of Evolution #1
- Now Playing7minCould Bigfoot REALLY Exist?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Some People Left-Handed?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- Now Playing5minWhat If There Were No Sharks?
- Now Playing6minWhich Came First - Flowers or Bees?
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing4minWhat Color Is The Moon?
- Now Playing4minThis is a SUPER BLOOD MOON! Lunar Eclipses Explained
- Now Playing11minHow Some Words Get Forgetted
- Now Playing8minTuatara All the Way Down
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
- Now Playing9minWhat Would Trees Look Like On Other Planets?
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
Two Cents
- 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?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
Monstrum
- 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 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 Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- 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 Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
Eons
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- 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 Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minWhen Crocs Thrived in the Seas
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- 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 Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- 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 Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
- Now Playing11minS2: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- 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 Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?