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- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
Two Cents
- 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 Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- 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 Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- 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
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
Eons
- Now Playing9minHow Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
- Now Playing7minThe Creature That Stumped Darwin
- Now Playing10minHow We Figured Out Fermentation
- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
- Now Playing8minWhen Trees Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing9minDid a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minThe Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
- Now Playing5minThe Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing13minWere These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minThe Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- 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 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 Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- 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 Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
- Now Playing12minDark Energy, Cosmology part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #43
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing14minHacking the Nature of Reality
- Now Playing15minWhat If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing12minThe Quantum Internet
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?