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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 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 Playing6minThe Amazing Science of DUST?
- Now Playing7minHow to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing6minWho Shares Your Birthday?
- Now Playing6minThomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose
- Now Playing2minWhy Do Men Have Nipples? - 12 Days of Evolution #7
- Now Playing8minThe Deadpool Salamander That Can Regrow Limbs
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing5minGhosts of Evolution
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing3minWhy Do We Go to Space?
- Now Playing6minThe Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
- Now Playing5minThis Land Is Your Land - Project For Awesome 2016
- Now Playing11minWhy We Are Losing the Night Sky
- 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 Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing5minThe Scale of the Universe
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- 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?
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 Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
- Now Playing10minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing7minThe Sea Monster from the Andes
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing10minThe Reign of the Hell Ants
- Now Playing12minThe Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
- Now Playing9minHow the Egg Came First
- Now Playing12minThe Humans That Lived Before Us
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing11minWhy Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
- Now Playing8minWe Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
- Now Playing6minLiving Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
- Now Playing6minThe Age of Giant Insects
- Now Playing9minThe Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
- Now Playing7minHow Horses Went From Food To Friends
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing10minWhen Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
- Now Playing9minWhy Does Caffeine Exist?
- Now Playing7minHow the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
Hot Mess
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- 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 Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- 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 Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
Space Time
- Now Playing15minDoes Axionic Dark Matter Bind Galaxies Together?
- Now Playing18minAre Room Temperature Superconductors Impossible?
- Now Playing16minThe Edge of an Infinite Universe
- Now Playing12minDark Energy, Cosmology part 2: Crash Course Astronomy #43
- Now Playing13minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing12minS2: Planck's Constant and The Origin of Quantum Mechanics
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing13minWill We Ever Find Alien Life?
- Now Playing11minThe Unruh Effect
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing14minHow Luminiferous Aether Led to Relativity
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing13minDark Flow
- Now Playing12minNeutron Stars Collide in New LIGO Signal?
- Now Playing6minCould You Fart Your Way to the Moon?
Beat Making Lab
- 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 Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
Infinite Series
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
Idea Channel
- 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?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?
- Now Playing9minCan Video Games Become the Next Spectator Sport?
- Now Playing3minAn Interview with Minecraft EDU Creator Joel Levin
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing9minIs a DOS Attack a Weapon?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?