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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 Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing12min7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
- Now Playing5minI Don't Think You're Ready for These Jellies
- Now Playing7minEinstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- 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 Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
Eons
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing9minThe Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
Hot Mess
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- 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 Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- 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 Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- 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 Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
Space Time
- Now Playing11minNo Dark Matter = Proof of Dark Matter?
- Now Playing13minHow Will the Universe End?
- Now Playing12minWhat's On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing10minS2: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing
- Now Playing14minWhat If Physics IS Not Describing Reality?
- Now Playing11minSupervoids vs Colliding Universes!
- Now Playing3minThe Leap Second Explained
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing14minGamma-Ray Bursts: Crash Course Astronomy #40
- Now Playing14minSecrets of the Cosmic Microwave Background
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing14min'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
- Now Playing14minOur Antimatter, Mirrored, Time-Reversed Universe
- Now Playing13minSound Waves from the Beginning of Time
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing11minStar Clusters: Crash Course Astronomy #35
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
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 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- 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 Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
Idea Channel
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time