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- 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?
- Now Playing13minSpace is Full of Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up...
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing16minWhy the 2024 Solar Eclipse is Such a Big Deal
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens If We Nuke Space?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing3minDoes The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
- Now Playing12minEvolution FAILS in the Human Body
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing8minEbola Explained
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing6minWhy It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing2minCarbon and Oxygen and You: Explained
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing11minThe Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- 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 Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing10minWhen Crocs Thrived in the Seas
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
Hot Mess
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
Space Time
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing9minThe Real Meaning of E=mc²
- Now Playing15minWhy Is 1/137 One of the Greatest Unsolved Problems
- Now Playing11minS2: How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past
- Now Playing13minHorizon Radiation
- Now Playing13minQuantum Theory's Most Incredible Prediction
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing17minHow Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing11minS2: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
- Now Playing15minHow To Know If It's Aliens
Beat Making Lab
- 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 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)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- 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?