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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 Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- 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 Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing5minBeavers: The Smartest Things in Fur Pants
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- 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 Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing12minWhen Mammals Only Went Out At Night
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
Space Time
- Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minWhite Holes
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing10minHave Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?
- Now Playing13minDo Black Holes Create New Universes?
- Now Playing10minTime Crystals!
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minIs Pluto a Planet?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing7minCan A Starfox Barrel Roll Work in Space?
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens Inside a Proton?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- 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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
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 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 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 Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- 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 Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?