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- 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
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens If We Nuke Space?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing12minUsing Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings
- Now Playing3minDoes Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
- Now Playing6minCRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
- Now Playing6minAttack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
- Now Playing4minThe Ruin and Rise of Monterey Bay
- Now Playing13minDoes Someone Else Have Your Face?
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing5minHow Many Trees Are There?
- Now Playing6minThe Delicious Science of CHEESE!
- Now Playing6minWhat is Luck?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing4minHow to See Time Travel!!!
- Now Playing9minIs This A NEW SPECIES?!
- Now Playing3minWhy I PBS
- Now Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing5minSunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
- Now Playing7minHow the Meter Became The Meter
- Now Playing2minIs Evolution Random? - 12 Days of Evolution #2
- Now Playing7minWhere Do Teeth Come From?
- Now Playing6minHow to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Date Ever
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
Two Cents
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- 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?
Monstrum
- Now Playing6minRethinking Frankenstein's Monster
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
- Now Playing11minBasilisk or Cockatrice? The Mysterious King of Serpents
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
- Now Playing6minThe Origin of Medusa
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
Eons
- Now Playing9minWhen Fish First Breathed Air
- Now Playing10minWhy The Giraffe Got Its Neck
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Amphibians Reigned
- Now Playing11minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing12minWhen We Tamed Fire
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing10minHow Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
- Now Playing9minWhen Plants Doubled Their DNA
- Now Playing8minWhen the Sahara Was Green
- Now Playing8minPrimates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
- Now Playing9minThe Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
- Now Playing10minThe Missing Link That Wasn't
- Now Playing8minWe Were Wrong About The Dodo
- Now Playing9minWhat a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
- Now Playing11minWhen the Synapsids Struck Back
- Now Playing10minYou're Living On An Ant Planet
- Now Playing9minHow the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
Space Time
- Now Playing11minSuperluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
- Now Playing19minAre Space and Time Real?
- Now Playing11minCitizen Science
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing16minHow Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Matter and Time
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing17minThorium and the Future of Nuclear Energy
- Now Playing15minHow To Know If It's Aliens
- Now Playing11minS2: The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality
- Now Playing11minWill A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing12minThe Missing Mass Mystery
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is NOT CONSTANT?
- Now Playing17minHow Does the Earth Really Move Through The Galaxy?
- Now Playing14minWhy String Theory is Right
- Now Playing15minIs Interstellar Travel Impossible?
- Now Playing9minWhy the Big Bang Definitely Happened
- Now Playing15minThe Holographic Universe Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Great American Eclipse
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- 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 Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- 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 Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
Idea Channel
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- 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 Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?