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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 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 Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing4minDogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth)
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing7minIs Height All in Our Genes?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- 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 Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- 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 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 Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
Monstrum
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- 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 Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
Eons
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- 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 Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing13minThe Real Star Wars
- Now Playing8minIs The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
- Now Playing10minIs Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
- Now Playing11minIs Gravity An Illusion?
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11min5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing13minDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing18minAre Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing9minThe Treasures of Trappist-1
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing14minBlack Hole Harmonics
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- 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 Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- 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 Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?