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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 Playing8min20 MILLION Year-Old Spider!! Unweaving Spider Silk
- Now Playing4minPutting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
- Now Playing9minCan You Bend Light Like This?
- Now Playing10minCould You Be a Chimera?
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing6minWhat's the Deadliest Animal in the World?
- Now Playing4minSpace Sounds
- Now Playing5minBats: Guardians of the Night
- Now Playing7minWhich Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing6minDNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Beer
- Now Playing5minThe Only Animal That Weeps
- Now Playing2minWhy Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
- Now Playing6minHow To Hit A Fastball (According To Science!!!)
- Now Playing7minThe Strange Science of the Placebo Effect
- Now Playing6minWhat's REALLY Warming the Earth?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing7minAre We All Related?
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- 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 Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
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 Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- 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 Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing12minWas PĂșca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing7minHow the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
- Now Playing10minThe Two Viruses That We've Had For Millions of Years
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing10minWhen Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
- Now Playing9minWhy Does Caffeine Exist?
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing7minHow Horses Went From Food To Friends
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
- Now Playing8minWe Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing9minHow the Egg Came First
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing10minThe Reign of the Hell Ants
- Now Playing12minThe Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing7minThe Sea Monster from the Andes
- Now Playing10minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
Space Time
- Now Playing14minWhat are the Strings in String Theory?
- Now Playing10minSelf-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination
- Now Playing15minDid Life on Earth Come from Space?
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
- Now Playing14minCould the Universe End by Tearing Apart Every Atom?
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing6minThe Calendar, Australia & White Christmas
- Now Playing10minTelescopes on the Moon
- Now Playing10minWhat Does Dark Energy Really Do?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism
- Now Playing14minLoop Quantum Gravity Explained
- Now Playing13minIs Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing?
- Now Playing12minWhat Happens at the Event Horizon?
- Now Playing14minThe Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing13minWhy We Might Be Alone in the Universe
- Now Playing8minKronos: Devourer Of Worlds
- Now Playing15minWhat if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- 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 Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- 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 Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing9minIs the Universe a Computer?
- Now Playing5minHow will the Animated GIF affect the Presidential Election?
- Now Playing5minIs CSS and Website Design a Fashion Statement?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?