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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 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?
- Now Playing8minIs the Southern Accent Disappearing?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing7minThe Real "Doctor Frankenstein"
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing7minWhy Are We The Only Humans Left?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
- Now Playing3minWhat Color is the Universe?
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing5minThe Auroras
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Kissing
- Now Playing5minDo Fish Pee?
- Now Playing8minWhen Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
- Now Playing8minWhy Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- 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 Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- 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 Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
Eons
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing12minThe Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
- Now Playing12minWhen Mammals Only Went Out At Night
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
Hot Mess
- 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 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 Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing13minWhy Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing14minHow Many States Of Matter Are There?
- Now Playing14minHow We Know The Earth Is Ancient
- Now Playing15minCan The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
- Now Playing15minThe Real Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!
- Now Playing17minWhat's Your Brain's Role in Creating Space & Time?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing13minCan Space Be Infinitely Divided?
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing16minHow Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles?
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing9minWhat's the Most Realistic Artificial Gravity in Sci-Fi?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- 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 Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time