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It's Okay To Be SmartI'm Joe Hanson, Ph.D and this program is all about science, the amazing universe we live in and how science connects to every part of our life.
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- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing10minWhat Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
- 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?
- Now Playing13minSpace is Full of Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up...
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing16minWhy the 2024 Solar Eclipse is Such a Big Deal
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing3minWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
Origin of Everything
- 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 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 Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- 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?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- 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 Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- 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 Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minAre Cyborgs Really Monsters?
- Now Playing12minWhat Hellhounds Reveal about Humans' Oldest Companion
- Now Playing9minPost-Dracula Vampires: From Anne Rice to Twilight
- Now Playing13minUnicorns: Magical Icons or Violent Beasts?
- Now Playing10minTikbálang: The Filipino Nightmare Shapeshifter
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- 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 Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
Eons
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing10minWhen Our Culture Changed Our DNA
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing8minWhen Giant Millipedes Reigned
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- 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 Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- 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 Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- 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.
Space Time
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
- Now Playing14minNew Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
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 Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- 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
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- 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 Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- 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 Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- 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 Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?