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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 Playing22minCan AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
- 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
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing11minWhy Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
- Now Playing7minYour Salad Is Trying To Kill You
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing4minHow Many Stars Are There?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing8minHow Big is the Solar System?
- Now Playing7minWhy Vaccines Work
- Now Playing5minMuch A-Do About Hair
- Now Playing7minEngines of Destruction: How Hurricanes Work
- Now Playing7minWhy Do You Love Your Family?
- Now Playing4minOrchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
- Now Playing5minSolving the Puzzle of Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing6minShould You Be Worried About Zika?
- Now Playing5minCould Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?
- Now Playing6minWhy Are There As Many Males As Females?
- Now Playing5minIs Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
- Now Playing4minDogs and Humans: A 30,000-Year Friendship (ft. MinuteEarth)
- Now Playing7minIs Height All in Our Genes?
- Now Playing5minWhy Music Moves Us
- Now Playing2minEvolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do We Have Private Prisons?
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
Two Cents
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing5minBudgeting Basics
- Now Playing7minIs the Stock Market Just a Big Casino?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
- Now Playing8min5 Ways People Are Dumb About Money
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
Monstrum
- Now Playing7minEl Chupacabras, a Modern Mystery
- Now Playing10minWhy the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
- Now Playing8minBunyip: Australia's Mysterious Amphibian Monster
- Now Playing7minWhat Dragons Say About Us
- Now Playing31minThe Werewolf's Modern Metamorphosis
- Now Playing12minBeyond the Supernatural Horror of the Nishi Daak Ghost
- Now Playing15minEgyptian Mummies: From Sacred Vessels to Scary Undead
- Now Playing12minTaotie: The Mystery of Chinese Mythology's Famous Glutton
- Now Playing12minDon't Let Them In! The Urban Legends of Black-Eyed Children
- Now Playing7minAre White Walkers Really Nordic Zombies?
- Now Playing14minThe Untold Secrets of Pokémon's Monster Mythology
- Now Playing7minRelease the Kraken!
- Now Playing13minUncovering the Enigma: Sasquatch Sightings
- Now Playing7minKasagonagá: The Cute, Kind Monster We All Need Right Now
- Now Playing11minMari Lwyd: The Skeleton Horse's Deep Past with Christmas
- Now Playing13minFire Cat or Fire Cart? The History of Japan's Kasha
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
- Now Playing26minThe Killer Origins of the Werewolf
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
Eons
- Now Playing6minDimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
- Now Playing11minWhen A Marsupial Became An Apex Predator
- Now Playing10minHow To Survive the Little Ice Age
- Now Playing8minHow Two Microbes Changed History
- Now Playing9minHow the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Now Playing8minThe Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
- Now Playing6minThe Time Terror Birds Invaded
- Now Playing8minThat Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Now Playing12minWhen Bats Took Flight
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing9minAre We All Actually Archaea?
- Now Playing9minWhen Apes Conquered Europe
- Now Playing12minHow Humans Lost Their Fur
- Now Playing6minHow Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
- Now Playing9minHow Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
- Now Playing8minThe Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
- Now Playing10minSomething Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
- Now Playing8minThe Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
- Now Playing10minThe World Before Plate Tectonics
- Now Playing12minWhere Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
Hot Mess
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- 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 Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- 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 Playing4minCould Space Mirrors Cool The Globe?
- Now Playing5minBeef Is Bad For The Climate. Can We Make It Better?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing5minWe've Ignored Climate Change For More Than a Century
- Now Playing6minWhat if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow?
- Now Playing5minWhat the Cutest Animal Can Teach Us About Saving Ourselves
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
Space Time
- Now Playing11minS2: Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past
- Now Playing13minSupersymmetric Particle Found?
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minHow to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
- Now Playing14minWhy Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
- Now Playing9minWill Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
- Now Playing14minWhat If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
- Now Playing7minIs It Irrational to Believe in Aliens?
- Now Playing7minWhat Will Destroy Planet Earth?
- Now Playing15minWhat If Alien Life Were Silcon-Based?
- Now Playing14minHow Magnetism Shapes The Universe
- Now Playing10minExtinction by Gamma-Ray Burst
- Now Playing10minQuantum Vortices and Superconductivity + Challenge Answers
- Now Playing10minWhat Physics Teachers Get Wrong About Tides!
- Now Playing10minThe Oh My God Particle
- Now Playing15minHow Does The Nucleus Hold Together?
- Now Playing16minWhat Makes The Strong Force Strong?
- Now Playing9minWhen Time Breaks Down
- Now Playing16minCould We Terraform Mars?
- Now Playing12minWill Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing10minWhat Does It Mean to Be a Number? (The Peano Axioms)
- Now Playing14minCan a Chess Piece Explain Markov Chains?
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing13minThe Mathematics of Quantum Computers
- Now Playing14minBuilding an Infinite Bridge
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing17minSplitting Rent with Triangles
- Now Playing16minHow to Break Cryptography
- Now Playing14minHow Big are All Infinities Combined? (Cantor's Paradox)
- Now Playing9minThis Video was Not Encrypted with RSA
Idea Channel
- 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 Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing9minWill Kickstarter Replace Hollywood?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minIs Minecraft the Ultimate Educational Tool?
- Now Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class
- Now Playing5minThere's No Such Thing as Online?!?
- Now Playing6minThe Retro Awesomeness of Adventure Time