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- Now Playing21minInterstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minComputers Can Predict When You're Going to Die... Here's How
- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Use Cringey Words for Loved Ones?
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing5minHow Does A Canyon Become Grand?
- Now Playing6minIlluminating the Universe: The History of Light
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing6minDo Trees Talk?
- Now Playing5minDo Fish Pee?
- Now Playing6minThe Cheerios Effect
- Now Playing3minDoes The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
- Now Playing7min3 Incredible Examples of Evolution Hidden In Your Body
- Now Playing8minHow Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf
- Now Playing5minThe Far Future of the Universe
- Now Playing5minLife by the Numbers
- Now Playing8minTuatara All the Way Down
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
Origin of Everything
- 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 Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- 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
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- 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 Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- 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 Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- 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 Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Eons
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing10minWhen Pterosaurs Walked
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing9minWe Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing8minBeans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing13minThe Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
- Now Playing9minHow Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
- Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
- Now Playing7minIs This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
- 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
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Space Time
- Now Playing12minWhat If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
- Now Playing6minSpace Used to Be Orange!!
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing11minExtraterrestrial Superstorms
- Now Playing13minAre Axions Dark Matter?
- Now Playing15minNeutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing12minDoes Quantum Immortality Save Schrödinger's Cat?
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing11minHow Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing13minQuantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing12minDark Matter: Crash Course Astronomy #41
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing13minWhere Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
- Now Playing16minWhat If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
- Now Playing7minHabitable Exoplanets Debunked!
- Now Playing14minDoes Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?