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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 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?
- Now Playing13minSpace is Full of Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up...
- Now Playing15minDark Forest: Should We Not Contact Aliens?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing10minThe Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
- Now Playing6minYour Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
- Now Playing6minWhy It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
- Now Playing6minWhat Are Rainbows?
- Now Playing7minWe Got Ants In Our Plants!
- Now Playing6minThe Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
- Now Playing4minThere's Science Hidden In Our National Monuments
- Now Playing6minDefusing the Population Bomb
- Now Playing7minWhy Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
- Now Playing12minEvolution FAILS in the Human Body
- Now Playing3minDoes The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
- Now Playing7minZombie Parasites!
- Now Playing8minEbola Explained
- Now Playing6minThe REAL Physics of Hot Air Balloons!
- Now Playing6minHow the Toilet Changed History
- Now Playing6min1 MILLION Species Could Go Extinct... Here's Why.
- Now Playing6minWhat Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
- Now Playing6minPay Attention!
- Now Playing6minAre You Afraid of Holes?
- Now Playing5minShould You Eat Everyday?
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 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 Playing6minIs My Identity Safe From Hackers?
- Now Playing6minFighting the Wedding Industrial Complex
- Now Playing7minWhich College Majors Give the Most Bang for Your Buck?
- Now Playing7minMoney, A Global Game of Trust
- Now Playing5minDo Kids Need to Learn About Money?
- Now Playing5minInsta-Everything
- Now Playing7minHow Retailers Stalk You Online
- Now Playing7minFighting the Financial Pitfalls of the Supermarket
- Now Playing7minIs Your Side Hustle Hustling You?
- Now Playing9minHow Smart Entrepreneurs Think About PRICES!
- Now Playing6minI'm Young & Healthy, Can I Skip Health Insurance?
- Now Playing6minTop 5 Biggest Financial Scams
- Now Playing7minWhy It's More Expensive To Be Poor
- Now Playing7minShould I Invest In Cannabis Stocks?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Real Cost of Dying?
- Now Playing6minHow to Ask for a Raise
- Now Playing8minAre "Free" Video Games Really Free?
- Now Playing6minShould I Buy Bitcoin?
- Now Playing6minWhat is The Cost of Pet Ownership?
- Now Playing6minHow Do You Actually Buy A House?
Monstrum
- Now Playing9minKrampus: Origins of the Yuletide Monster
- Now Playing20minWhy George Romero Changed Zombies Forever
- Now Playing10minA Giant Monster With a Giant Problem
- Now Playing14minHero, Beast, or Both? The Complex Lore of the Centaur
- Now Playing10minHow a Children's Book Introduced Us To Our Inner Demons
- Now Playing10minSlender Man: How The Internet Created a Monster
- Now Playing10minEl Silbón: The Deadly Whistler of the Grasslands
- Now Playing17minThe Origins of the Zombie, from Haiti to the U.S.
- Now Playing13minMonster Plants and the Humans who Invent Them
- Now Playing12minWho Is This Japanese Yōkai That Is Obsessed With Your Butt?
- Now Playing17minTrolls: Scandinavia's Malevolent, Magical Outcasts
- Now Playing6minThe Original Headless Horseman
- Now Playing11minIs Siren Head the Ultimate Modern Monster?
- Now Playing9minThe Hidden Origins of Nixie, the Scariest Little Mermaid
- Now Playing18minUnlocking the Mystery of Loch Ness
- Now Playing11minThe Macabre Origins of the Grim Reaper
- Now Playing12minHow Gargoyles Became Monsters
- Now Playing11minWhy Has the Majestic Griffin Been Forgotten?
- Now Playing17minAlien Abduction and UFOs: Why Are Grays So Common?
- Now Playing9minAdze: the Shapeshifting Firefly from West Africa
Eons
- Now Playing10minHow Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
- Now Playing8minWhen Trees Took Over the World
- Now Playing10minHow We Figured Out Fermentation
- Now Playing7minThe Creature That Stumped Darwin
- Now Playing9minHow Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
- Now Playing11minThe Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
- Now Playing13minWere These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
- Now Playing4minThe Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
- Now Playing5minThe Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
- Now Playing11minThe Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
- Now Playing6minWhen The Earth Was Purple
- Now Playing11minThe Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
- Now Playing6minWhat Colors Were Dinosaurs?
- Now Playing9minDid a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?
- Now Playing6minThe Search for the Earliest Life
- Now Playing5minWhen Did the First Flower Bloom?
- Now Playing12minYour Place in the Primate Family Tree
- Now Playing6minHistory's Most Powerful Plants
- Now Playing6minThe Most Useful Fossils In The World
- Now Playing10minThe Last Time the Globe Warmed
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhy We Confuse Weather and Climate
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing5minWhy Climate Change is Unjust
- Now Playing3minCould climate change make you allergic to meat?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing7minWhat's The Best Car For The Climate?
- Now Playing11minClimate Change is Too Big for our Brains feat. Mike Rugnetta
- Now Playing6minWould Your Neighbors Save You From a Flooding Home?
- Now Playing6minCoral Reefs Are Dying. But They Don't Have To.
- Now Playing13minThe Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady
- Now Playing12minOur Food System is Rigged feat. Sheril Kirshenbaum
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
Space Time
- Now Playing15minWhy Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
- Now Playing13minDid Dark Energy Just Disappear?
- Now Playing11minThe Geometry of Causality
- Now Playing11minThe Misunderstood Nature of Entropy
- Now Playing12minDo Events Inside Black Holes Happen?
- Now Playing2minHow to Weigh a Fart
- Now Playing5minS3 Ep18: Gravity in Your Brain ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson!
- Now Playing17minCould LIGO Find Massive Alien Spaceships?
- Now Playing15minPerpetual Motion From Negative Mass?
- Now Playing8minEscape The Kugelblitz Challenge
- Now Playing12minThe Black Hole Entropy Enigma
- Now Playing9minBlack Hole Swarms
- Now Playing9minUsing Stars to See Gravitational Waves
- Now Playing11minWhy Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
- Now Playing6minSuicide Space Robots
- Now Playing18minWhat If The Universe Is Math?
- Now Playing13minThe Secrets of Feynman Diagrams
- Now Playing10minThe One-Electron Universe
- Now Playing11minBlack Holes from the Dawn of Time
- Now Playing15minWhere Is The Center of The Universe?
Beat Making Lab
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- 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 Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing4minTrapped In Paradise
- Now Playing2minHealth Worker Beat
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing3minPanama: Meet the Kids Behind the Beats
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #1: Accordion Trap
- Now Playing2minWhat's In the Backpack?
- Now Playing5minBehind the Beat: Portobelo
Infinite Series
- Now Playing14minInfinite Chess
- Now Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing10minInstant Insanity Puzzle
- Now Playing8minA Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
- Now Playing14minSolving the Wolverine Problem with Graph Coloring
- Now Playing8minThe Multiplication Multiverse
- Now Playing12minHow Infinity Explains the Finite
- Now Playing11minCan We Hear Shapes?
- Now Playing14minCan We Combine pi & e to Make a Rational Number?
- Now Playing9minProving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
- Now Playing14minMaking Probability Mathematical
- Now Playing8minAre Prime Numbers Made Up?
- Now Playing14minTopology Riddles | Infinite Series
- Now Playing9minAssociahedra: The Shapes of Multiplication
- Now Playing10minThe Mathematics of Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Now Playing9minCan You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
- Now Playing12minProving Pick's Theorem
- Now Playing11minVoting Systems and the Condorcet Paradox
Idea Channel
- Now Playing8minIs Piracy Helping Game of Thrones?
- Now Playing9minIs Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?
- Now Playing4minIs Twitter the Newest Form of Literature?
- Now Playing3minWhat Makes a Pop Star Authentic?
- Now Playing4minThe Bronies Phenomenon
- Now Playing6minWhat do MP3s and Magic Spells Have in Common?
- Now Playing5minIs Facebook Changing Our Identity?
- Now Playing4minHas the Microsoft Kinect revolutionized art?
- Now Playing7minCan Dungeons & Dragons Make You Confident & Successful?
- Now Playing6minAre MP3s & Vinyl Better than Live Music?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing3minSuper Mario Brothers as Surrealist Art?
- Now Playing6minIs Futurama the Best Argument Against Transhumanism?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing3minAre Holograms Nostalgia or a New Form of Art?
- Now Playing9minDoes Math Really Exist?
- Now Playing6minIs Doctor Who a Religion?
- Now Playing8minIs Sad Music Actually Sad?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?