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- 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
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing12minRecycling Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing7minCould You Be Immune To Everything?
- Now Playing6minThe Science of Snowflakes
- Now Playing6minHow The Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2)
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing5minWhat If There Were No Sharks?
- Now Playing6minIs Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing5minHow Does A Canyon Become Grand?
- Now Playing7minIncredible Tails Of Amazing Whales!
- Now Playing7minAre Dinosaurs Extinct?
- Now Playing8minWhy Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
- Now Playing7minWill You Still Eat Raw Fish After Watching This Video?
- Now Playing6minHow Do Bees Make Honey?
- Now Playing5minThe Odds of Finding Life and Love
- Now Playing4minThe Cosmic Afterglow
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- 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 Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing10minWhy was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- Now Playing7minHow did Makeup, WWII, & Communism Create U.S. Healthcare?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do Schools Teach Sex Education?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- 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?
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minHacking Your Brain to Get Out Of Debt
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing5minHow Do Your Tax Dollars Get Spent?
- Now Playing5minHow are credit scores calculated?
- Now Playing8min5 Strange Investor Crazes!
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
Monstrum
- 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 Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing10minJorōgumo: The Deadly Spider Woman from Yokai Lore
Eons
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing9minThe Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing10minThe Hidden Genes That Make Us Human
- Now Playing13minDid Raptorex Really Exist?
- Now Playing9minHow Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
Hot Mess
- 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 Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing5minWhat Can You Actually Do About Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minHow A Sticker Kept 3 Billion Tons of CO2 Out of The Air
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
Space Time
- Now Playing10minThe Vacuum Catastrophe
- Now Playing6minS2: The Future of Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Information Paradox
- Now Playing8minDoes Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
- Now Playing9minGeneral Relativity & Curved Spacetime Explained!
- Now Playing9minThe Treasures of Trappist-1
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing10minLife on Europa?
- Now Playing14minBlack Hole Harmonics
- Now Playing18minAre Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing11minAre You a Boltzmann Brain?
- Now Playing11minWe Are Star Stuff
- Now Playing13minDid Time Start at the Big Bang?
- Now Playing11minHow Asteroid Mining Will Save Earth
- Now Playing11minWhy Quasars are so Awesome
- Now Playing12minWhat Survives Inside A Black Hole?
- Now Playing11min5 REAL Possibilities for Interstellar Travel
- Now Playing10minIs Quantum Tunneling Faster than Light?
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 Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing13minNetwork Mathematics and Rival Factions | Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
Idea Channel
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Santa and Wrestling Have In Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing8minDo Knock-Offs Prove the Value of a Brand?