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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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- 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?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing12minWhat's In a 20,000 Year-Old Cube of Ice?
- Now Playing13minWhere Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing6minThe Cheerios Effect
- Now Playing5minDo You Really Have Two Brains?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Things Sound Scary?
- Now Playing5minThe Odds of Finding Life and Love
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing4minWe're Mainly Microbe: Meet Your Microbiome
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
- Now Playing7minIncredible Tails Of Amazing Whales!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- 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 Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- 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 Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Eons
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing10minYou're Living On An Ant Planet
- Now Playing11minWhen the Synapsids Struck Back
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing8minWhen the Sahara Was Green
- Now Playing8minPrimates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
- Now Playing9minThe Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
- Now Playing8minWe Were Wrong About The Dodo
- Now Playing10minThe Missing Link That Wasn't
- Now Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing10minWhy The Giraffe Got Its Neck
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- 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 Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing12minThe Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions
- Now Playing14minIs The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
- Now Playing14minThe Big Bang, Cosmology part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #42
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing15minDeep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing9minCan a Circle Be a Straight Line?
- Now Playing10minHow to Capture Ghost Particles
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing16minWas the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
- Now Playing14minCould the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing12minHow Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing11minWhy is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | 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 Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?