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- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWhy Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing6minThe Oldest Living Things In The World
- Now Playing5minWhy Do We Itch?
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing5minDe-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing9minSo You Want to go to Mars?
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing10minExoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- 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 did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- 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 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 Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- 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 Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Eons
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing13minWere These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minThe Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
- Now Playing5minThe Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
- 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 Playing8minWhen Trees Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
- Now Playing10minHow We Figured Out Fermentation
- Now Playing9minHow Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
- Now Playing7minThe Creature That Stumped Darwin
- Now Playing11minHow the Starfish Got Its Arms
- Now Playing11minThe Story of the Dino Stampede
Hot Mess
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
Space Time
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
- Now Playing12minDark Energy, Cosmology part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #43
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing15minWhat If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
- Now Playing14minHacking the Nature of Reality
- Now Playing12minThe Quantum Internet
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- 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)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- 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 Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- 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 Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
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 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 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- 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 Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?