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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 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
- Now Playing17minWhat Happens If You Jump Into A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11minNo Single Cradle of Humankind
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing4minHow to See Time Travel!!!
- Now Playing3minWhy I PBS
- Now Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing12minUsing Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing6minVENOM: Nature's Killer Cocktails
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing4minWhat's The Loudest Possible Sound?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- 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 Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- 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 Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing12minWhen Mammals Only Went Out At Night
- Now Playing9minThe Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing12minThe Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
Hot Mess
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
Space Time
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing15minWhere Is The Center of The Universe?
- Now Playing11minS2: Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth?
- Now Playing14minHow Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
- Now Playing10minWhat Do Stars Sound Like?
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing9minUsing Stars to See Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing18minWhat If The Universe Is Math?
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing5minS3 Ep18: Gravity in Your Brain ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson!
- Now Playing17minCould LIGO Find Massive Alien Spaceships?
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing15minWhy Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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 Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- 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
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?