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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 Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing5minHow Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- 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 Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- 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?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- 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 Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
Eons
- Now Playing8minThe Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing10minWhen Did We Stop Being Naked?
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing12minThat Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
- Now Playing10minHow Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing13minWhen We Met Other Human Species
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing11minWhy Only Earth Has Fire
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing9minThe Curious Case of the Cave Lion
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing8minWhere Are All The Squid Fossils?
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing8minThe Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing9minOur Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing16minWhy String Theory is Wrong
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing17minWhat If Black Holes Are Dark Energy?
- Now Playing13minThe Cosmic Dark Ages
- Now Playing11minWhy Haven't We Found Alien Life?
- Now Playing16minThe New Science of Moon Formation
- Now Playing14minWhat Caused the Big Bang?
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- 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 Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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
Infinite Series
- 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 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 Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?