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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 Playing13minWhere Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing6minInside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing12minWhat's In a 20,000 Year-Old Cube of Ice?
- Now Playing5minDo You Really Have Two Brains?
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing6minThe Cheerios Effect
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
- Now Playing7minIncredible Tails Of Amazing Whales!
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing5minSpit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
- 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
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- 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?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- 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 Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minIs This North American Sea Serpent Real or a Hoax?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas PĂșca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
Eons
- 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 Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- 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 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 Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
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 Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
Space Time
- Now Playing10minWhy the Universe Needs Dark Energy
- Now Playing12minQuantum Entanglement (The Bohr-Einstein Debate)
- Now Playing15minWhat If Space is Not Empty?
- Now Playing17minAre there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?
- Now Playing13minHow To Become an Astrophysicist
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
- Now Playing13minQuantum Gravity and the Hardest Problem in Physics
- Now Playing12minDid JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?
- Now Playing12minUnderstanding the Uncertainty Principle
- Now Playing12minWhat is Energy?
- Now Playing7min9 NASA Technologies Shaping YOUR Future
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing12minThe Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions
- Now Playing14minThe Big Bang, Cosmology part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #42
- Now Playing14minIs The Wave Function The Building Block of Reality?
- Now Playing14minAre Dark Matter And Dark Energy The Same?
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing15minDeep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
- Now Playing9minCan a Circle Be a Straight Line?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?