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- Now Playing10minWhy This Unusual Pattern May Save the Rainforests
- Now Playing11minHow Did the Theremin Influence Electronic Music?
- Now Playing12minWhat's the Oldest Beverage
- Now Playing13minThe Ancient Terror of the Chinese Hopping Corpse, Jiangshi
- Now Playing17minWhy Do We Hate Certain Sounds
- Now Playing20minIs Gravity RANDOM Not Quantum?
- Now Playing9minWhy Is English Awash in Sailors Jargon?
- Now Playing10minThe Mystery of South America's False Horses
- Now Playing11minHow Otters Are Saving Earth's Underwater Forests
- Now Playing18minCan We Create New Elements Beyond the Periodic Table
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing12minUsing Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing4minHow to See Time Travel!!!
- Now Playing3minWhy I PBS
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing6minHow to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing7minHow the Meter Became The Meter
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing11minKing Kong pt. 2
- Now Playing11minLa Lechuza: The Shape-Shifting Witch-Owl
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing9minThe Mother of Vengeance: Grendel's Mom
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
Eons
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing7minThe Genes We Lost Along the Way
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing10minHow Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing9minThe Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
- Now Playing10minThe Hidden Genes That Make Us Human
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
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 Playing13minThe Phantom Singularity
- Now Playing6minSeeing Beyond the Human Eye
- Now Playing8minThe First Humans on Mars
- Now Playing8minAre Space and Time An Illusion?
- Now Playing14minAre We Running Out of Space Above Earth?
- Now Playing15minDid JWST Solve The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origin
- Now Playing13minFirst Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
- Now Playing10minThe Vacuum Catastrophe
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing15minWhat If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
- Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing20minDoes Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
- Now Playing5minCould NASA Start the Zombie Apocalypse?
- Now Playing16minGalaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- 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 Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?