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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 Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing4minDogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth)
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing7minIs Height All in Our Genes?
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- 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 Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Curious Case of the Cave Lion
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing11minWhy Only Earth Has Fire
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
- Now Playing13minWhen We Met Other Human Species
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing12minThat Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
- Now Playing10minHow Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
- Now Playing8minThe Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
- Now Playing10minWhen Did We Stop Being Naked?
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing8minThe Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing9minHow Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
- Now Playing10minHow South America Made the Marsupials
- Now Playing7minHow the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
Hot Mess
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened Before the Big Bang?
- Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
- Now Playing14minThe NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
- Now Playing13minIs Time Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing14minDoes Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing20minDoes Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
- Now Playing16minGalaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
- Now Playing5minCould NASA Start the Zombie Apocalypse?
- Now Playing15minWhat If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- 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 Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?