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- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- Now Playing16minWhy Is The World Rushing Back To The Moon?
- 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?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing11minWhy We Are Losing the Night Sky
- Now Playing5minThis Land Is Your Land - Project For Awesome 2016
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing9minIs the Rosa Parks Story True?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- 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 Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
Eons
- Now Playing9minThe Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
- Now Playing10minThe Missing Link That Wasn't
- Now Playing8minWe Were Wrong About The Dodo
- Now Playing8minWhen the Sahara Was Green
- Now Playing8minPrimates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing11minWhen the Synapsids Struck Back
- Now Playing10minYou're Living On An Ant Planet
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing10minWhy The Giraffe Got Its Neck
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- Now Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
Space Time
- 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 Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing13minHow To See Black Holes By Catching Neutrinos
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
- Now Playing10minThe Eye of Sauron Reveals a Forming Solar System!
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- 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 Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
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 Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- 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 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 Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?