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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 Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
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 Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
Eons
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing9minDid a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing13minWere These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minThe Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
- Now Playing5minThe Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing10minHow We Figured Out Fermentation
- Now Playing9minHow Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
- Now Playing7minThe Creature That Stumped Darwin
- Now Playing8minWhen Trees Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
- Now Playing11minThe Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
- Now Playing10minThat Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
- Now Playing8minThe Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
Hot Mess
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- 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
Space Time
- Now Playing13minComputing a Universe Simulation
- Now Playing17minDid AI Prove Our Proton Model Wrong?
- Now Playing7minAre We Alone? Galactic Civilization Challenge
- Now Playing15minHow To Simulate The Universe With DFT
- Now Playing14minSpace DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
- Now Playing13minZeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing10minHow Much Information is in the Universe?
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing8minShould the First Mars Mission Be All Women?
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing10minHave Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minWhite Holes
- Now Playing13minDo Black Holes Create New Universes?
- Now Playing10minTime Crystals!
Beat Making Lab
- 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 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 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
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- 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 Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time