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- 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
- Now Playing10minHow Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
- Now Playing16minWhat Happens If We Nuke Space?
It's Okay to Be Smart
- Now Playing5minHow Your Body Knows Left From Right
- Now Playing6minUnderstanding Climate Science
- Now Playing5minThis Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
- Now Playing5minHow Science Defines A Year
- Now Playing8minIs There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
- Now Playing8minWhere On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?
- Now Playing7minSonic the Hedgehog Is Why You Have Thumbs!
- Now Playing5minWhy Are The Bees Dying?
- Now Playing5minWhy Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)
- Now Playing2minCan Evolution Create Information? - 12 Days of Evolution #9
- Now Playing4minThe Romantic Lure of Moonlight
- Now Playing8minIs Ultron Inevitable?
- Now Playing6minCan Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose
- Now Playing2minAre Humans Still Evolving? 12 Days of Evolution #11
- Now Playing3minWhy Does Time Go Forward?
- Now Playing4minGoats!
- Now Playing6minRelationship Advice from the Animal Kingdom
- Now Playing5minThe Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
- Now Playing4minThere Was No First Human
- Now Playing8minThe Science of BBQ!!!
Origin of Everything
- Now Playing8minWhy Do Kids Have Their Own Bedrooms?
- Now Playing8minWhere Does the #Hashtag Symbol Come From?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing9minDoes the Rorschach Inkblot Test Work?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Martin Luther King Jr. Get a Holiday?
- Now Playing10minWhy Does the Government Need to Know My Race?
- Now Playing11minWhy Does the Government Pay for Art?
- Now Playing7minWhy are 18 Year Olds Considered Adults?
- Now Playing9minCan Tattoos Be Taboo?
- Now Playing11minModern Warfare and Alien Invasions
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Wash Our Hands After Going to the Bathroom?
- Now Playing7minWhy Are There So Few Women in Computer Science?
- Now Playing6minWhy Do We Have Middle Names?
- Now Playing10minWhy Do We Have Hobbies?
- Now Playing10min6 Weird Facts About the History of Birth Control
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Race in the USA
- Now Playing9minHow Did Edison Invent Christmas Lights?
- Now Playing5minWhat Was Jesus' Real Name?
- Now Playing10minDo Standardized Tests Do More Harm Than Good?
- Now Playing10minHow Did Makeup Ads Go From Style to Science?
Two Cents
- 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 Playing6minMoving Without Spending a Fortune
- Now Playing6minWomen Financial Superpowers
- 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 Playing6minDoes Wealth Make You Meaner?
- Now Playing6minWhat the Heck Are Mutual Funds?
- 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 Playing8minWerehyena: The Terrifying Shapeshifters of African Lore
- Now Playing15minBaba Yaga: The Ancient Origins of the Famous 'Witch'
- Now Playing13minWhat Happened During Our Scary Slumber Party
- Now Playing12minDeath Worms: Fact or Fiction?
- Now Playing13minThe SCP Foundation: Declassified
- Now Playing10minYara-ma-yha-who: Australia's Regurgitating, Blood-Sucking Mo
- Now Playing10minPontianak: The Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia
- Now Playing10minThe Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore
- Now Playing11minCan All Monsters Be Traced Back to Tiamat?
- Now Playing10minHow Bloody Mary Turns Fear Into Fun
- Now Playing17minModern Zombies: The Rebirth of the Undead
- Now Playing10minIs Yuki-onna the Most Terrifying Snow Monster?
- Now Playing12minThe Origins of 'Big Bug' Science Fiction
- Now Playing13minLeprechaun: From Gold-Loving Cobbler to Cultural Icon
- Now Playing8minNuckelavee: Scotland's Skinless Evil Monstrosity
- Now Playing14minThe Evolution of Creepy Dolls
- Now Playing11minThe Fatal Song of the Sirens
- Now Playing8minCreepy Clowns: The Horror Behind the Laughter
- Now Playing12minWas PĂșca the Nightmare Bunny That Inspired Donnie Darko?
- Now Playing11minThe Original Urban Legend: Spring-Heeled Jack
Eons
- Now Playing8minHow the Walrus Got Its Tusks
- Now Playing10minHow Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
- Now Playing10minWhen Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
- Now Playing8minWhat Was The Earliest Surgery?
- Now Playing10minHow Blood Evolved (Many Times)
- Now Playing12minWhen Birds Had Teeth
- Now Playing7minThe Trouble With Trilobites
- Now Playing9minOur Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
- Now Playing11minDid These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
- Now Playing13minAn Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
- Now Playing11minFrom the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing10minLife, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
- Now Playing7minThe Genes We Lost Along the Way
- Now Playing6minThe Story of Saberteeth
- Now Playing10minHow Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
- Now Playing5minThat Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
- Now Playing8minThe Extinction That Never Happened
- Now Playing11minWhen Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
- Now Playing12minWhen Sharks Swam the Great Plains
Hot Mess
- Now Playing5minWhat Happened to Nuclear Power?
- Now Playing5minWhat's actually the worst greenhouse gas?
- Now Playing6minWill Big Oil Have To Pay Up Like Big Tobacco?
- Now Playing8minHow One Conservative Texas Town Went 100% Renewable
- Now Playing5minCan Farms and Forests Coexist?
- Now Playing4minWhy Are Hurricanes Getting Stronger?
- 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
- Now Playing4minHow Much Energy Does the Internet Use?
- 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 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 Playing6minWhat Indigenous Communities Teach Us About Climate Change
Space Time
- Now Playing10minTelescopes of Tomorrow
- Now Playing17minDoes Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
- Now Playing8minThe Higgs Mechanism Explained
- Now Playing10minThe End of the Habitable Zone
- Now Playing9minHow Close To The Sun Can Humanity Get?
- Now Playing10minThe Death of the Sun
- Now Playing11minThe Future of Space Telescopes
- Now Playing12minFeynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
- Now Playing14minSolving the Three Body Problem
- Now Playing15minHow to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres
- Now Playing10minThe Andromeda-Milky Way Collision
- Now Playing16minThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
- Now Playing10minThe Origin of Our First Interstellar Visitor
- Now Playing16minWhat If The Speed of Light is Not Constant?
- Now Playing13minCould We Move Planet Earth Across the Universe?
- Now Playing10minCan You Trust Your Eyes in Spacetime?
- Now Playing9minThe Star at the End of Time
- Now Playing10minWhat's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
- Now Playing14minNew Discovery About Supermassive Black Holes Explained!
- Now Playing12minQuantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model
Beat Making Lab
- 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
- Now Playing2minMashup: National Anthems
- Now Playing10minHeartbeats of Fiji
- Now Playing3minGet Your Drums Right
- Now Playing2minField Trip: Prison Beats
- Now Playing4minCho Cho Cho (Music Video) filmed in Goma, Congo
- Now Playing2minWalshy Fire [of Major Lazer] Wants Your Riddims
- Now Playing3minExclusive Zenga (Music Video) by Flamme Kapaya
- Now Playing3minBeat Making Challenge #2: Kora Riddim
- Now Playing3minFemale Hip Hop Crew Makes Beats in Senegal
- Now Playing3minEpisode 1: Goma, Congo
- Now Playing4minDiablos (music video)
- Now Playing3min#FijiChallenge w/ Walshy Fire of Major Lazer
- Now Playing3minProf. Angel Sound Prison Beats Interview
- Now Playing3minSampling w/ Flip Flops and Ski Beatz
- Now Playing4minPortobelo (music video)
- Now Playing3minBehind The Beat: First Beat Making Lab (2011)
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 Playing11minWhat are Numbers Made of?
- Now Playing14minWhy Computers are Bad at Algebra
- 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 Playing5minAre Memes and Internet Culture Creating a Singularity?
- Now Playing6minAre Virtual Video Game Economies Becoming Real?
- Now Playing4minFrom Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing4minIs Instagram Revolutionizing Photography?
- Now Playing5minNicolas Cage, Taoism, and YOLO
- Now Playing8minWhy Do We Love Zombies?
- Now Playing5minWill Space Travel Save Us All?
- Now Playing8minIs Buying Call of Duty a Moral Choice?
- Now Playing5minDo We Want the World to End?
- Now Playing5minIs Dubstep the New Musical Avant-Garde?
- Now Playing5minIs Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?
- Now Playing3minIs the Web Browser Replacing the Art Gallery?
- Now Playing5minAre You a Hipster?
- Now Playing8minIs Developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethical?
- 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?