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- 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
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
Two Cents
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- 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 Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- 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 Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- 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 Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
Eons
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing13minDoes Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
- Now Playing13minWill You Travel to Space?
- Now Playing11minWhen Quasars When Quasars Collide STJC
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing11minThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
- Now Playing14minDoes Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
- Now Playing10minS2: Will the Universe Expand Forever?
- Now Playing7minHabitable Exoplanets Debunked!
- Now Playing16minWhat If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing13minIs The Universe Finite?
- Now Playing16minWhat Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
- Now Playing9minThe True Nature of Matter and Mass
- Now Playing10minS2: Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing12minAre the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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
- 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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
Idea Channel
- 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 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 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 Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?