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Origin Of EverythingEvery aspect of our daily reality, whether its the words we use, the pop culture we love, the technology that get us through the day, or even the identities we give ourselves, emerge from thousands of intersecting histories. And on this show, we're going to explore them ALL!
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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 Playing6minWhy Did We Blow On Nintendo Games?
- Now Playing9minWhat If You Never Forgot Anything?
- Now Playing7minMusical Tesla Coils in Slow Motion! Featuring Physics Girl
- Now Playing6minWhat's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
- Now Playing5minЩΉӨ BЦIƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ - Who Built The Pyramids
- Now Playing8minAsteroids, Meteors, and Comets... OH MY!!!
- Now Playing6minAsteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
- Now Playing3minYour Mom is LITERALLY Part Of You!
- Now Playing5min23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
- Now Playing5minThe Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
- Now Playing5minClaude Monet Was Half Honeybee
- Now Playing4minWhat Is Fire?
- Now Playing5minHow Many Smells Can You Smell?
- Now Playing5minHow Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
- Now Playing5minRemembering Carl Sagan
- Now Playing4minHow Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
- Now Playing5minWhy Does February Have 28 Days?
- Now Playing6minHow Habits are Formed
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing7minWhy Does Santa Wear Red?
- Now Playing10minWhat is Ethnicity?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Get Grades in School?
- Now Playing9minWhy Do We Drink Milk in School?
- Now Playing12minWhy Do We Have Housing Projects?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Eat Artificial Flavors?
- Now Playing12minSix Historically True Facts about Money
- Now Playing11minWhat is Racial Passing?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing8minWhy Do People Have Pets?
- Now Playing11minWhy Do So Many Religions Have Headwear?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing7minWhy Do We Eat Popcorn at The Movies?
- Now Playing10minThe 2nd Amendment Explained
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
- Now Playing9minWhy Do All Malls Look the Same?
- Now Playing8minWhere does the Nuclear Family Come From?
- Now Playing8minWhy Did Europeans Enslave Africans?
- Now Playing7minThe True Origin of Killer Clowns
- Now Playing9minThe Origin of Gender
Two Cents
- Now Playing6minShould You Break Up With Your Big Bank?
- Now Playing6minThe Ugly Truth About Airline Miles
- Now Playing4minWhat is the DOW?
- Now Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- 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 Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing7minIs It Even POSSIBLE to Save for Retirement?
- Now Playing6minDo I Need To Buy A House?
- Now Playing7minLove and Money
- Now Playing5minHow Cars Can Keep You Poor
- Now Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- Now Playing7minCan You Really Retire in Your 30s?
- Now Playing6minWhat Are The Most Lucrative Trades?
Monstrum
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing12minHave Humans Always Feared Sharks?
- Now Playing11minMapinguari: Fearsome Beast and Protector of the Amazon
Eons
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing9minThe Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
- Now Playing10minNautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until They Appeared
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing10minWhen Hobbits Were Real
- Now Playing12minWhy Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Now Playing12minWhen We Took Over the World
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing11minWhen the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
- Now Playing13minWhy Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
- Now Playing12minWhen Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
- Now Playing12minWhen We First Talked
- Now Playing7minWhen Giant Fungi Ruled
- Now Playing10minWhen We First Made Tools
- Now Playing8minInside the Dinosaur Library
- Now Playing11minWhere Did Water Come From?
- Now Playing8minThe Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
- Now Playing8minWhy Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
- Now Playing10minOur Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
- Now Playing12minHow Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
Hot Mess
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
- Now Playing10minAre You Scared Enough? feat. David Wallace-Wells
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing10minFeeling Guilty About Climate Change feat. Hank Green
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing6minCan We Get Solar Power To Everyone Who Wants It?
- Now Playing6minWhat If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels?
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing5minClimate change will push millions out. Where will they go?
- Now Playing5minWhy Don't We Hear About the Ozone Hole Anymore?
- Now Playing7minHow To Make Clothes Less Terrible for the Planet
- Now Playing6minHow To Suck Carbon Dioxide Out of the Sky
- Now Playing5minWho Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
Space Time
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing8minAbsolute Cold
- Now Playing20minWhat if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
- Now Playing14minDoes the Universe Create Itself?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- 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 Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
Infinite Series
- Now Playing15minDissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
- Now Playing11minSingularities Explained
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing8minHow to Divide by "Zero"
- Now Playing10minThe Assassin Puzzle
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing12minThe Honeycombs of 4-Dimensional Bees ft. Joe Hanson
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing10minUnraveling DNA with Rational Tangles
- Now Playing9minHow Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
- Now Playing9minA Hierarchy of Infinities
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing17minHacking at Quantum Speed with Shor's Algorithm
- Now Playing9minBeyond the Golden Ratio
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing11minTopology vs "a" Topology
- Now Playing15minArrow's Impossibility Theorem
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of SET
Idea Channel
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- 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 Playing8minIs a Tagged Instagram More Than Just a Photo?
- 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 Playing7minHow are Justin Bieber, Franz Liszt and Jerusalem Connected?
- Now Playing5minAre Olympic Competitors Geniuses?
- Now Playing4minRussian Meteorites and Surveillance Culture
- Now Playing4minAre LOLCats and Internet Memes Art?
- Now Playing4minAre Mashups the End of Music Genres?
- Now Playing5minIs William Gibson A Modern Day Oracle?
- Now Playing6minShould "Happy Birthday" be Protected by Copyright?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing5minA Visit to Mr. Monfre's Class