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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 Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing5minWhy Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing14minThis Face Changes the Human Story
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing4minGoats!
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- 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 Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- 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 Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
Eons
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- 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 Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- 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?
Space Time
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing14minCould the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
- Now Playing13minIs Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
- Now Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- 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 Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
Idea Channel
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- 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 Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?