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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 Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing5minWhy Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing11minApollo's Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA's Moon Rock V
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Became Carnivores
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing8minHow a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
- Now Playing11minWas This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing13minHow Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
- Now Playing9minCould Neanderthals Use Symbolism?
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing8minHow a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
- Now Playing10minWhy We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
- Now Playing11minHow Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
- Now Playing9minIt's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing8minWhen the Rainforests Collapsed
- Now Playing9minWhen a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- 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 Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- 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 Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing16minHow Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing16minHow Eclipses Revealed Our Solar System
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing16minIs the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
- Now Playing10minWhy the Universe Needs Dark Energy
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing12minHow to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
- Now Playing9minCan a Circle Be a Straight Line?
- Now Playing15minIs ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?
- Now Playing15minHow Do Quantum States Manifest In The Classical World?
- Now Playing8minIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
- Now Playing17minDo We Need a New Dark Matter Model?
- Now Playing6minThe Race to a Habitable Exoplanet - Time Warp Challenge
- Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
- Now Playing11minWhy is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
- Now Playing16minHow Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- 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 Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
Idea Channel
- 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 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 Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- 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 Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?