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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 Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
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 Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- 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 Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing12minWhen Mammals Only Went Out At Night
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- 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 Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
Space Time
- Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minWhite Holes
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing10minHave Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?
- Now Playing13minDo Black Holes Create New Universes?
- Now Playing10minTime Crystals!
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minIs Pluto a Planet?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing7minCan A Starfox Barrel Roll Work in Space?
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens Inside a Proton?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- 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 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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- 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 Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?