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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 Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing4minA Slice of Pizza Science!
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing2minThe Sun Is A Magnet!
- Now Playing6minThe Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth... And Beyond?
- Now Playing7minHow Do Glaciars Move?
- Now Playing6minDoomsday Machines
- Now Playing6minThe Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
- Now Playing5minYour #ScienceWoman Heroes
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing5minThis Land Is Your Land - Project For Awesome 2016
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minWhat If There Were No Taxes?
- Now Playing10minWould You Have Joined the American Revolution?
- Now Playing6minWhy it Was Illegal to be Ugly?
- Now Playing11minWhy Are We Obsessed with Cults?
- 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 Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
Monstrum
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Eons
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
- Now Playing5minWhen Whales Walked
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing8minWhen Birds Stopped Flying
- Now Playing14minThe History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing11minWhen We First Walked
- Now Playing10minWhen Humans Were Prey
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minWhy The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing12minWill Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
- Now Playing7minHow to Signal Aliens
- Now Playing16minCould We Terraform Mars?
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing12minReversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- 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 Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- 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 Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- 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 Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- 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 Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?