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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 Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
- Now Playing3minHow Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
Monstrum
- 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
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
Hot Mess
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- 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 Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- 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 Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing15minHow Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing12minScience of the James Webb Telescope Explained!
- Now Playing16minIs 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
- Now Playing13minHow To Capture Black Holes
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing11minS2: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
- Now Playing13minThe Doomsday Argument
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
Idea Channel
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?