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- 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?
- Now Playing13minSpace is Full of Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up...
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing6minThe Raisin Bran Effect
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing6minHow Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing3minWhat is Wind?
- Now Playing5minAre You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
- Now Playing3minEight Incredible Deep Sea Oddities
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Ants Get Stuck in Traffic
- Now Playing7minThe Most Important Moment in the History of Life
- Now Playing6minWhy Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
- Now Playing5minWhen Is It Winter On Other Planets?
- Now Playing4minHow The Elements Got Their Names
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing10minWhy Is There a Minimum Wage?
- Now Playing9minWhat If Islam Conquered Europe?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minHow WWII Created Godzilla & Mecha Robots
- 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 Playing8minWhy Do Women Shave Their Legs?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- 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 Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- 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 Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
Eons
- Now Playing8minHow Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
- Now Playing10minThe Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
- Now Playing10minThese Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minHow Weasels Got Skinny
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing8minDo Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
- Now Playing12minWhen Antarctica Was Green
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThat Time the American West Blew Up
- Now Playing12minAnimals Are Older Than We Thought
- Now Playing10minHow Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
- Now Playing9minWhen Apes Conquered Europe
- Now Playing9minAre We All Actually Archaea?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minMartian Evolution
- Now Playing16minGalaxies, part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #39
- Now Playing5minCould NASA Start the Zombie Apocalypse?
- Now Playing20minDoes Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
- Now Playing14minAre Virtual Particles A New Layer of Reality?
- Now Playing15minWhat If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
- Now Playing12minThe Real Science of the EHT Black Hole
- Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
- Now Playing13minIs Time Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing11minFirst Detection of Life
- Now Playing14minDoes Life Need a Multiverse to Exist?
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing13minAre We Living in an Ancestor Simulation? ft. Neil deGrasse T
- Now Playing8minWhat Happens At The Edge Of The Universe?
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing14minThe NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
- Now Playing13minIs an Ice Age Coming?
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 Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- 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 Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?