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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.![PBS Digital Studios]()

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It's Okay to Be Smart
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Now Playing6minThe Physics of Space Battles
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Origin of Everything
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
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Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
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Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
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Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
Two Cents
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Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
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Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
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Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
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Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
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Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
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Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
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Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
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Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
Eons
Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
Now Playing13minThe Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
Now Playing9minHow Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
Now Playing9minDarwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose
Now Playing10minGiant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
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Now Playing7minThe Other Explosion You Should Know About
Hot Mess
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Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
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Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
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Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Space Time
Now Playing11minWhat Happened Before the Big Bang?
Now Playing14minThe NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
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Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
Now Playing15minWhat If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
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Now Playing16minGalaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
Now Playing14minDoes Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
Beat Making Lab
Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
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Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
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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
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Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
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Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
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Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
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Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
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Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
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Idea Channel
Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
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Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
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Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
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Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
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Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
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 Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?