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- Now Playing13minWhat's The Universe's Strongest Particle Accelerator?
- Now Playing9minThe Surprising Power of Sex in Evolution
- Now Playing14minCan Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?
- Now Playing11minHas Streaming Made It Harder to Find New Music You Love?
- Now Playing21minInterstellar Expansion WITHOUT Faster Than Light Travel
- Now Playing9minThe Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing13minComputers Can Predict When You're Going to Die... Here's How
- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
It's Okay to Be Smart
- 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 Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- Now Playing7minIncredible Tails Of Amazing Whales!
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
- Now Playing7minHow Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing6minIs Your Eye Color Real?
- Now Playing5minWhy Your Brain Is In Your Head
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing12minWhat's In a 20,000 Year-Old Cube of Ice?
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing13minWhere Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- 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 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 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 Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- 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 Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minJorÅgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Eons
- 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 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 Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing9minCan a Circle Be a Straight Line?
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing15minDeep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing14minThe Big Bang, Cosmology part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #42
- Now Playing14minIs The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
- Now Playing12minThe Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing11minHow Cosmic Inflation Flattened the Universe
- Now Playing11minWhy is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing12minSolving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theory
- Now Playing12minHow Do We Know What Stars Are Made Of?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing14minCould the Higgs Boson Lead Us to Dark Matter?
- Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
- Now Playing10minZero-Point Energy Demystified
- Now Playing9minIs There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
- Now Playing16minWas the Gravitational Wave Background Finally Discovered?!?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- 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 Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- 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 Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?