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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 Playing21minInterstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minComputers Can Predict When You're Going to Die... Here's How
- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Use Cringey Words for Loved Ones?
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minBats: Guardians of the Night
- Now Playing4minSpace Sounds
- Now Playing6minWhat's the Deadliest Animal in the World?
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing10minCould You Be a Chimera?
- Now Playing9minCan You Bend Light Like This?
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Beer
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing6min97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing7minAre We All Related?
- Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
- Now Playing7minAre We All Related?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
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 Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- 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 Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- 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 Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing12minThat Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
- Now Playing10minWhy Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
- Now Playing10minWhen Did We Stop Being Naked?
- Now Playing8minThe Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils
- Now Playing9minThe Curious Case of the Cave Lion
- Now Playing11minWhy Only Earth Has Fire
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing13minWhen We Met Other Human Species
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing10minHow a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing8minDid An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
- Now Playing9minHow the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
- Now Playing10minThe Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
- Now Playing7minThe Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
Hot Mess
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing14min'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing14minGamma-Ray Bursts: Crash Course Astronomy #40
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing10minS2: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
- Now Playing14minWhat If Physics IS Not Describing Reality?
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing13minHow Will the Universe End?
- Now Playing12minWhat's On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
- Now Playing13minHow To Build The Universe in a Computer
- Now Playing11minThe Physics of Life (ft. It's Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!)
- Now Playing10minNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- 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 Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- 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 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 Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Idea Channel
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- 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 Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?