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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 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
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
Two Cents
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
Monstrum
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
Eons
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing13minDoes Gravity Require Extra Dimensions?
- Now Playing13minWill You Travel to Space?
- Now Playing11minWhen Quasars When Quasars Collide STJC
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing11minThe Speed of Light is NOT About Light
- Now Playing14minDoes Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?
- Now Playing10minS2: Will the Universe Expand Forever?
- Now Playing7minHabitable Exoplanets Debunked!
- Now Playing16minWhat If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing13minIs The Universe Finite?
- Now Playing16minWhat Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction?
- Now Playing9minThe True Nature of Matter and Mass
- Now Playing10minS2: Is Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing12minThe Nature of Nothing
- Now Playing12minAre the Fundamental Constants Changing?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
Infinite Series
- 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?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- 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
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- 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 Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?