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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 Playing16minTrying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing4minCuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise
- Now Playing4minWhose Air do we Share?
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing6minWhy Salt & Pepper?
- Now Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing7minInside the World of Fire Ants!
- Now Playing10minIs There Life on Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhy Don't Other Animals Wear Glasses?
- Now Playing3minBuilding Curiosity
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- 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 Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- 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 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
Eons
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing9minThe Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
- Now Playing10minThe Hidden Genes That Make Us Human
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- 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 Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- 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 Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWill Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?
- Now Playing11minHabitable Exoplanets Debunked!
- Now Playing15minWhat If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
- Now Playing15minWhy Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing12minHow to Detect Extra Dimensions
- Now Playing14minHave They Seen Us?
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing10minWhat's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
- Now Playing14minNew Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing20minWhat if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
- Now Playing14minDoes the Universe Create Itself?
- Now Playing14minCan You Observe a Typical Universe?
- Now Playing10minHave Gravitational Waves Been Discovered?!?
- Now Playing13minThe First Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- 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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
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 Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- 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 Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?