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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 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 Playing4minWhy Seasons Make No Sense
- Now Playing2minWhat Is Evolution, Anyway? - 12 Days of Evolution #1
- Now Playing4minHow Poop Shapes the World
- Now Playing8minThe Science of Game of Thrones
- Now Playing6minWhy It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing4minWhat's The Loudest Possible Sound?
- Now Playing6minVENOM: Nature's Killer Cocktails
- Now Playing5minThe Superb Owl!
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing6minPay Attention!
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing5min5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
- Now Playing3minWhy is the sky any color?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Cook?
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing6minHow to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever
- Now Playing7minHow the Meter Became The Meter
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
Two Cents
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- 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?
Space Time
- Now Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing13minHow To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing13minIs Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
Infinite Series
- 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 Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- 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 Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- 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 Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
Idea Channel
- 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 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 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 Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?