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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 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 Playing3minWhat Color is the Universe?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do More Species Live Near The Equator?
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Make an Eye? - 12 Days of Evolution #4
- Now Playing8minHow Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing7minWhy Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
- Now Playing7minWhat Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing6minVENOM: Nature's Killer Cocktails
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing5minThe Far Future of the Universe
- Now Playing5minLife by the Numbers
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing8minTuatara All the Way Down
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Laugh?
- Now Playing4minHow Poop Shapes the World
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Snowflakes
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing6minWhich Came First - Flowers or Bees?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
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 Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- 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 Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
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 Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- 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 Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Eons
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing8minThe Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- 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?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- 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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
Space Time
- Now Playing12minWhat's On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
- Now Playing13minHow Will the Universe End?
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing14minGamma-Ray Bursts: Crash Course Astronomy #40
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing14minWhat If Physics IS Not Describing Reality?
- Now Playing10minS2: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing14min'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing11minBreaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- 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 Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?