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- 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?
- Now Playing8minIs the Southern Accent Disappearing?
- Now Playing15minThis Winter Trend Is Overpowering Global Warming
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minThe Surprising Places We Waste Energy
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing6minIs Sugar A Drug?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of Game of Thrones
- Now Playing9minAmazing Animal Superpowers
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Get Dizzy (...and Astronauts Don't?)
- Now Playing7minDoes My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?
- Now Playing6minDo Plants Think?
- Now Playing5minWhy Your Brain Is In Your Head
- Now Playing8min6 Chemical Reactions That Changed History
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Snowflakes
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing12minRecycling Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing5minHow Does A Canyon Become Grand?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
Monstrum
- 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 Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing9minThe Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing9minThe Two People We're All Related To
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing10minWhen Ants Domesticated Fungi
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing5minStegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
- Now Playing8minThe Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minA Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- Now Playing13minFrom the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
- Now Playing12minA Natural History of Mars
- Now Playing10minFAQs From Our First Year
- Now Playing8minWhere Did Viruses Come From?
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing11minHow We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals
- Now Playing9minThe Fossil Record In Your Mouth
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- 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 Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- 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 Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing15minHow Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing16minCould We Terraform Mars?
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- 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
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?