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Origin Of EverythingEvery aspect of our daily reality, whether its the words we use, the pop culture we love, the technology that get us through the day, or even the identities we give ourselves, emerge from thousands of intersecting histories. And on this show, we're going to explore them ALL!
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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 Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
- Now Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- 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?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- 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 Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- 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 Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Eons
- Now Playing9minHow the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing8minDid An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
- Now Playing7minThe Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
- Now Playing10minThe Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing9minOur Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing8minWhere Are All The Squid Fossils?
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing8minThe Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing7minHow the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
- Now Playing10minHow South America Made the Marsupials
- Now Playing9minHow Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing11minHow Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- 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 Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing17minWhat If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing13minThe Cosmic Dark Ages
- Now Playing14minWhat Caused the Big Bang?
- Now Playing16minThe New Science of Moon Formation
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- 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 Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?