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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 Playing18minThe 12 Days of Evolution - Complete Series!
- Now Playing7minWhere Did Humans Come From?
- Now Playing8minNobel Prizes: Past, Present... and Future?
- Now Playing7minTheory vs Hypothesis vs Law
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing7minWhere Did Humans Come From?
- Now Playing6minIt's Okay to Fart
- Now Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing3minElectric Buzzaloo: How Bees See the Invisible
- Now Playing4minWhy I'm Scared of Spiders
- Now Playing5minWhy Are You Multicellular?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing5minThe Far Future of the Universe
- Now Playing6minHow An Igloo Keeps You Warm
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Things Sound Scary?
- Now Playing6minWhat Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing7minHow Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
- Now Playing3minThe Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
- Now Playing6minWhy Do Clouds Stay Up?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhen DId Marriage Become about Love?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Say "Asian American" Not "Oriental"?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- 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 Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
Two Cents
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
Monstrum
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
Eons
- Now Playing10minWhen Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
- Now Playing8minThese Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
- Now Playing10minWhen Camels Roamed North America
- Now Playing6minHow Sex Became A Thing
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing7minThe Great Snake Debate
- Now Playing8minHow Dinosaurs Coupled Up
- Now Playing9minWhen Insects First Flew
- Now Playing9minThe First and Last North American Primates
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing8minHow We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Now Playing9minHow Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
- Now Playing9minThe Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
- Now Playing4minThe Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
- Now Playing12minWhat Was the Ancestor of Everything?
- Now Playing10minHow Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
- Now Playing12minThe Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing10minThe Link Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- 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 Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- 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 if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minHow Many Universes Are There?
- Now Playing17minJWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!
- Now Playing8minLIGO's First Detection of Gravitational Waves!
- Now Playing12minHow Black Holes Kill Galaxies
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minMapping the Multiverse
- Now Playing18minHow the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
- Now Playing15minHave We Solved The Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing9minThe Treasures of Trappist-1
- Now Playing12minWhat is Energy?
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing14minThe NEW Crisis in Cosmology
- Now Playing13minCould The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing10minStrange Stars
- Now Playing13minAnti-gravity and the True Nature of Dark Energy
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing12minThe Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing16minHow Far Beyond Earth Could Humanity Spread?
- Now Playing11minWhy is the Earth Round and the Milky Way Flat?
- Now Playing12minAnti-Matter and Quantum Relativity
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?