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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 Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- 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 Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- 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 Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- 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 Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
Monstrum
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- 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 Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- 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 Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
Eons
- Now Playing8minHow the Chalicothere Split In Two
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing8minBeans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies
- Now Playing7minUntangling the Devil's Corkscrew
- Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
- Now Playing9minWe Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of Geologic Time
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minWhen Pterosaurs Walked
- Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
- Now Playing7minIs This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
- Now Playing13minThe Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
- Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minHow Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
Hot Mess
- 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 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 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
Space Time
- Now Playing11minThe Fate of the First Stars
- Now Playing12minLife in the Universe: Crash Course Astronomy #46
- Now Playing11minHow Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
- Now Playing13minHow Does Gravity Escape A Black Hole?
- Now Playing13minA Brief History of the Universe: Crash Course Astronomy #44
- Now Playing11minHow Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
- Now Playing6minWhat Planet Is Super Mario World?
- Now Playing13minHow Will the Universe End?
- Now Playing12minHow to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of the Modern Milky Way Galaxy
- Now Playing12minHawking Radiation
- Now Playing10minShould Space be Privatized?
- Now Playing7minShould We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
- Now Playing16minHow Can Matter Be Both Liquid And Gas?
- Now Playing16minFermions Vs. Bosons Explained with Statistical Mechanics!
- Now Playing13minWhite Holes
- Now Playing13minThe Real Star Wars
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing12minAre the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- 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 Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- 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 Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?