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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 Playing13minWhere Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
- Now Playing7minHow the Meter Became The Meter
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Cook?
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Make an Eye? - 12 Days of Evolution #4
- Now Playing5minThe Auroras
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Have to Sleep
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Clouds Stay Up?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing6minHow Do Bees Make Honey?
- Now Playing6minPigeon Story: How the Rock Dove Became the Sky Rat
- Now Playing5minShould You Eat Everyday?
- Now Playing5minEvolution: The Book Of Life
- Now Playing5minIs Big Data Getting Too Big?
- Now Playing4minThe Cosmic Afterglow
- Now Playing5minIs Big Data Getting Too Big?
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing8minThe Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- 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?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- 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 Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing14minCould the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
- Now Playing13minIs Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- 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 Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
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 Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- 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 Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?