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- Now Playing10minHow Do You Preserve a Thousands Year Old Musical Style?
- Now Playing14minWhy This Mexican Genre Is Growing As Fast As K-Pop
- Now Playing14minOur Understanding of Floods is ALL Wrong
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Use Cringey Words for Loved Ones?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing14minThis Face Changes the Human Story
- Now Playing7minWhy People Don't Believe In Climate Science
- Now Playing3minWhy is the sky any color?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing4minGoats!
- Now Playing4minWhat Color Is The Moon?
- Now Playing17minHow Blind People See With Sound
- Now Playing6minHow An Igloo Keeps You Warm
- Now Playing8minThe Deadliest Flu Season in History?
- Now Playing8minIs Space A Thing?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing5minWhy Does The Earth Have Layers?
- Now Playing11minApollo's Most Important Discovery: Inside NASA's Moon Rock V
- Now Playing5min%$?# Allergies!
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing7minWhen Men Wore High Heels
- Now Playing12minWhy Doesn't the US Have Paid Parental Leave?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- 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 Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- 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 Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
Monstrum
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- 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 Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
Eons
- Now Playing9minWhen a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
- Now Playing8minWhen the Rainforests Collapsed
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing9minIt's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal
- Now Playing10minWhy We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
- Now Playing11minHow Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
- Now Playing9minCould Neanderthals Use Symbolism?
- Now Playing8minHow a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing13minHow Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing11minWas This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
- Now Playing8minHow a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Became Carnivores
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing8minThe Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- 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 Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing9minHow to Talk About Climate Change
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- 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 Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
Space Time
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing12minDark Energy, Cosmology part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #43
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- 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 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 Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?