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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 Playing11minHow Some Words Get Forgetted
- Now Playing5minNature's Living Fireworks
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
- Now Playing6minWhat's REALLY Warming the Earth?
- Now Playing5minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing5minEvolution: The Book Of Life
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing7minIs Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
- Now Playing9minCan We Get Older Without Aging?
- Now Playing4minDogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth)
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
- Now Playing4minWhat's The Loudest Possible Sound?
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing10minThe Mystery of the World's Greatest Butterfly Migration
- Now Playing6minHow Do Bees Make Honey?
- Now Playing6minPigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat
- Now Playing5minShould You Eat Everyday?
- Now Playing5minEvolution: The Book Of Life
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- 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 Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- 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 Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
Eons
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing9minWe Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
Space Time
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing17minThorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing15minHow To Know If It's Aliens
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing19minAre Space and Time Real?
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing16minHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
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 Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- 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 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 Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- 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 Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- 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 Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?