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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 Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
- Now Playing7minWhat is Farthest Away?
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing4minMy Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
- Now Playing6min100,000,000 Years From Now
- Now Playing5minDo Animals Mourn Their Dead?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Species Are There?
- Now Playing9minThe Sixth Extinction
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Was Crossdressing Illegal?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- 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 Playing7minHow Your Rubber Ducky Explains Colonialism
- Now Playing10minIs Breakfast the Most Important Meal?
- Now Playing8minWhy is there a North and South Korea?
- Now Playing7minHow Columbus Invented Cannibals
- 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 Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Cultural Appropriation?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Women Give Birth Lying Down?
- Now Playing7minIs Poisoned Halloween Candy a Myth?
- Now Playing7minHistory of the Word "Gay"
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
Two Cents
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- 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 Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
Monstrum
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing12minWas Púca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing10minWill-o'-the-Wisp: Monstrous Flame or Scientific Phenomenon?
Eons
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
- Now Playing8minHow Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minWhen Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
- Now Playing9minWhen Rodents Had Horns
- Now Playing10minThe Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
- Now Playing9minThe Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Now Playing11minHow a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing9minThe Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
- Now Playing13minHow Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- Now Playing10minWhen Fish Wore Armor
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing8minWhat Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
- Now Playing8minThe Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
- Now Playing10minHow 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
- Now Playing12minCan We Get DNA From Fossils?
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing12minWhen a Billion Years Disappeared
- Now Playing9minThe Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- 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 Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- 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 Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
Space Time
- Now Playing16minWhat If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilization
- Now Playing11minS2: Should We Build a Dyson Sphere?
- Now Playing13minThe Doomsday Argument
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing13minWhy the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
- Now Playing10minThe EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
- Now Playing9min5 Ways to Stop a Killer Asteroid
- Now Playing18minWhat If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
- Now Playing14minWas the Milky Way a Quasar?
- Now Playing9minHow Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
- Now Playing13minNew Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
- Now Playing15minIs Dark Energy Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing13minHow Black Holes Spin Space Time
- Now Playing11minHow to Build a Blackhole
- Now Playing12minWhy We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing17minHow Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing15minDoes Space Emerge From A Holographic Boundary?
- Now Playing10minScientists Have Detected the First Stars
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
Infinite Series
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing13minWhat is a Random Walk?
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing14minKill the Mathematical Hydra
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing11minWhat was Fermat's "Marvelous" Proof?
- Now Playing12minWhen Pi is Not 3.14
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
- Now Playing8minTelling Time on a Torus
- Now Playing11minDefining Infinity
Idea Channel
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- 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 Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?